Nuwara Eliya: The Highlands, the Tea Country, and Sri Lanka’s Little England
Nuwara Eliya District stands at the highest elevations of Sri Lanka, where cool winds, misty mountains, and rolling tea estates create a landscape unlike any other part of the island. Often called “Little England” because of its colonial-era architecture and climate, Nuwara Eliya is both a living highland resort and the very heart of Sri Lanka’s tea civilization.
More than a tourist destination, Nuwara Eliya is a district that shapes the country’s economy, environment, and identity through tea, water, and mountain ecosystems.
A Landscape Above the Clouds
Nuwara Eliya contains Sri Lanka’s highest peaks, including Pidurutalagala, the tallest mountain in the country, and lies close to the Horton Plains plateau and World’s End, one of the island’s most dramatic natural viewpoints....

