Category: Sri Lanka
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage is the largest collection of elephants in the world. It has wild Asian elephants which are being fed, treated and nursed for their wounds that they get in various forests of Sri lanka or from land-mines. According to our tour guide there were about 90 elephants at that time. Once the calves attain…
Kandy
The Kandy-Nuwara Eliya road was good one and it was not bumpy like Ketulgala-Nuwara Eliya road. The total distance from Nuwara Eliya to Kandy is about 100km. The hills are carpeted with uniformly-clipped lush-green tea-plantations. The scenes of carved water-streams and waterfalls were amazing so we stopped at few places before getting to Kandy. Kandy is…
Mackwoods Tea Factory
Mackwoods Labookellie tea factory is the first tea factory in Sri Lanka which was awarded ISO-9001 certification. It was established in 1841 by British Ship’s Captain William Mackwood who was it’s first Chairman as well. It survived many wars especially World War I and II, kept progressing and now it has over 10,000 employees working on…
Victoria Park, Nuwara Eliya
The city of Nuwara Eliya is also called ‘Little England’ mainly due to its climate, the average daily temperature stays around 15C throughout the year. British colonists liked this location and it was like a home to them, they used to spend their time here hunting, playing cricket or golf. Perhaps the biggest attraction in…
Mlesna Tea Castle
There is another proper way to go from Colombo to Nuwara Eliya directly but because we had to visit The Birdge on River Kwai’s location we took this road. Although the road becomes bumpy and is broken at different places but those tea estates we saw on our way were treat to eyes and I…
Zesta Tea Stopover
We restarted our journey from Kitulgala towards Nuwara Eliya via many of Sri Lanka’s tea plantations or “Estates”. Zesta is located in one such village called Watawala and these plantations are owned by Watawala Tea Ceylon Ltd. A huge yellow cup is mounted on a pole near the road. The shop itself is in front…
“The Bridge on River Kwai”
Kitulgala is a small town in the west of Sri Lanka about 100km from Colombo. It is in the wet zone rain forest, which gets two monsoons each year, and is one of the wettest places in the country. The Academy Award-winning “The Bridge on the River Kwai” was filmed on the Kelani River near…
In Colombo We Sweat
Colombo is capital and largest city on south-west of Sri Lanka. It’s climate is like Karachi; when the sun is out it is too hot and when it rains, it is humid. We had our lunch at an Indian restaurant Amrith Masala Talk. The driver was more of a guide and he could speak good…
