Hill Country Trips & Tours

Whether you know it as Hill Country or Tea Country, the central-southern region of Sri Lanka is a viridian utopia of rolling tea terraces and plantations, steeped mountains and jagged peaks. An ideal retreat from the hazy humidity, the air up here is crisp and clean and it certainly tickled the tastes of the British who couldn’t get enough of the cooler climes. Most of your days will be spent rolling from one plantation to the next, sipping cups of the world’s finest Ceylon and nibbling on sandwiches and jam-filled scones, but even if you don’t love tea, there’s plenty to do. Island-hop across the unreservedly picturesque Castlereagh Reservoir, amble along pretty trails to waterfalls and cloud-clad forests, or, if the need for something more daring arises, wake with the sun to summit the Sri Lankan Matterhorn, Adam’s Peak, an ancient pilgrimage site with staggering views.