Hatton Trips & Tours

There’s more than a subtle dose of the genteel about Sri Lanka’s Hill Country, but Hatton really does take the (cream-filled) biscuit. It’s the first stop on the train journey from Kandy and arrivals at the platform are greeted simultaneously by honking goats and chickens and the station manager, resplendent in cap and gold frills. Drive out of the town centre and you’ll pass colourful Hindu temples and row after row of lush tea plantations. The world’s favourite hot drink is really the focus of a stay here and you’ll have the pick of the factories to learn everything there is to know about the leaf-to-cup process. Hatton is also the closest point from which to hike Adam’s Peak, a 2,243-metre-high conical mountain with a sacred footprint rock formation thought to belong to Buddha.