If you have a vacation in Sri Lanka, then a trip to Nuwara Eliya which is where the British used to retreat to, for coolness in the summer heat a century ago is essential, , to stay at The Hill Club, because I guarantee you wont find another place like it anywhere in the world.
Nuwara Eliya is over 5000 feet above sea level and visiting there is like going back in time, in fact just getting there is an adventure in itself.
We hired a vehicle, plus driver from our beach side hotel, and booked a night in Kandy, and a night in Nuwara Eliya, to visit my uncle’s old stomping grounds when he was a tea planter in what was then Ceylon.
I’m not going to write about the drive, which was quite amazing, but rather about the hotels we stayed in.
In Kandy we stayed in the Queen’s Hotel, situated on a very English corner, and looking very much like an English town hotel.
Inside, the hall and reception area were wood panelled, with an old fashioned sliding grill lift, you could have been in Edwardian England. Our room looked as if the last visitor was Queen Victoria, and my wife was very concerned abot bed bugs. Having said that although the...
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