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Tours
Most hotels in town can arrange day trips by car or 4WD to Horton Plains National Park .
The standard price for up to five passengers is Rs 4000 (excluding park fees). One of the
better 4WD tours organised by a cheap hotel is based at Single Tree Hotel . It's about an
hour's drive to the park gates.
Single Tree can also arrange trips to the Pedro Tea Estate and Lovers Leap for Rs 1500.
For the ultimate waterfall experience, join its waterfall day trip (Rs 3000 to Rs 8000 per
van) that takes in between six and 18 different cascades and the Labookellie Tea Factory .
Sleeping
Nuwara Eliya has masses of places to stay, but many of the budget and midrange places
can be on the draughty and dreary side, so it's worth being a little choosy. There's a good
range of colonial-style places, but you will pay more for heritage ambience. Unlike other
parts of Sri Lanka, there aren't many backpacker-oriented guesthouses. Two exceptions are
the Single Tree Hotel and the excellent King Fern Cottage.
You'll need blankets to keep warm at night at almost any time of year. For a fee a few
hotels will light a fire in the communal areas on cold nights - you won't find a toastier
way to keep warm on a drizzly Nuwara Eliya night.
During the high season, around Sri Lankan New Year in April, rooms are three to five
times their normal price. Prices also increase during long-weekend holidays and in August,
when package tours descend from abroad.
Single Tree Hotel GUESTHOUSE
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 222 3009; singletreehtl@sltnet.lk ; 178 Haddon Hill Rd;s/d from Rs 3500/
4500; )
The most popular backpacker guesthouse in town has a main building with a sociable vibe
and loads of warm timber trim. The rooms in the annex building are a little darker, but nor-
mally a lot quieter. The switched-on owners are rather tour pushy, but the tours they offer
are generally pretty good.
Hotel Glendower HISTORIC HOTEL
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