Travel Reference
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The Hill Country
Why Go?
Picture Sri Lanka and visions of golden beaches probably dance before your eyes. But
there's another side to this island. It's a side where mists slowly part to reveal emerald car-
pets of tea plantations and montane forests clinging to serrated ranges bookended by wa-
terfalls. This is Sri Lanka's Hill Country; a place where you can wear a fleece in the day-
time and cuddle up beside a log fire in the evening. A region where you can walk to the
end of the world, stand in the footsteps of the Buddha, paddle a raft down a raging river,
enjoy the drumbeat of traditional dance and be surrounded by a hundred wild elephants.
With a hit list like that it's perhaps hardly a surprise that when many visitors look back
on their Sri Lankan adventures it's not the beaches that make them smile fondly, but rather
it's the surging, rolling highlands.
