Mysterious Sri Lanka - City of Light: Nuwara Eliya

Day 1- Transferring To Nuwara Eliya-Tea Factory

7.30 am our tour guide will pickup you and starts the journey to Nuwara Eliya. On the

way, you will stop at Ramboda falls for sightseeing and taking pictures. This destination

helps you to relax and learn more about Sri Lanka's nature. At around 11.00 am you’ll

reach Nuwara eliya and during that half an hour will be taken to visit tea Heritance tea

factory where you also can have your lunch there at the tea factory restaurant. After the

lunch you can visit inside the factory and explore the tea plantations and our guide will

show and tell you everything about Ceylon tea and plantations.

At around 3.00pm check into your hotel and take a cycle tour and wander along the

street and discover this little England with various things to see: from colonial period

such as horse race course, post office, golf club, city and relax at the lake Gregory.

Then after you can check into your hotel and have a rest after the trip. Our tour guide

will tell you some tips about tomorrow Horton plains trekking.

Day 2 - Horton Plains - Hakgala

Wake up early morning before sunrise and the hotel will serve you breakfast. Our guide

will pick up you at 5.30 am and will drive you by 4*4 Jeep. During your journey you can

see beautiful sunrise, misty rain forest stopping at the view points. You will get chance

to capture nice photos and feel the fresh mountain air. After reaching at the car park at

Horton plains now you have to go trekking around the plains and you can see the

Baker's fall, World's end and many of flora and fauna there. During your trekking you

will get a chance enjoy your breakfast.

After your 3 hours journey of trekking you'll visit the Hakgala botanical garden which is

the 2nd largest botanical garden in Sri Lanka. Here you'll see there are lot of varieties of

flora like Black-introduce plant, Yellow-poison plant, Red-endemic plant, Green-Asian

plants and also you will be able to understand the Sri Lanka's flower industry here from

our guide…… After the visit at the botanical garden you’ll stop at cool peel restaurant

for lunch near the picturesque “Seetha Amman temple”.

On the way to your hotel you can stop at the up country vegetable stalls near the farm

and see different vegetables and the plantations such as leeks, carrot, beet-root, potato

etc… Here, you can learn the Sri Lankan vegetable farming and how important is this to

people living in here and also you can visit “Seetha Amman” Hindu temple. It's said to

mark the spot where Seetha was held captive by the demon king Rawana in Lanka

epic, Ramayana, where she prayed daily for Rama to come and rescue her.

After all we can say a good bye to this wonderful journey and return to Nuwara Eliya by

jeep and end this day trip at your hotel at around 5.00pm. And if you like you can have a

walk around Gregory Lake and don't forget your camera to photograph the sunset

moment at there and enjoy the fresh air on this romantic lake side.

Overnight in Nuwara Eliya

Day 03- Nuwara Eliya – Ella

On the last day of this mysterious city of light tour, our chauffeur will transfer you to

Nanu-oya train station to travel to Ella. Train will leave at 9.30 am and we say good bye

to each other here. End of service.

This will be a slow travel train journey to Ella. On the way you are able to see huge

areas of tea plantations, tea plucking ladies with their colorful saris. After all these at the

station you can experience vendors hustle treats, including some amazing corn and chili

fritters wrapped and sold by people there. And it will be somebody's small scale

business at home. While munching one of these start enjoying your visit to Ella.