NuwaraEliya
 Today a busy town and trading centre for vegetable produce, Nuwara Eliya attracts tourists to his cool heights for a number of reasons- chiefly, its tea. 
 
British planters nostalgic for home named this 6000-ft hill resort Little England. Nuwara Eliya straddled by the country's tallest mountain Pidurutalagala (8000 feet) lies in the centre of the Sri Lanka's mountain country. Sporting large British period bungalows, a lake, golf course and rose gardens, the town would certainly have been reminiscent of British countryside in the good old days.
A visit to a tea factory set amidst acres of rolling tea-carpeted hills is a must for any visitor. Being the world's most famous tea producer, Sri Lanka's mountain country can offer visitors a cuppa of the best brews in the world.
 

Horton Plains, a plateau National Park at 7000 feet where sambhur and leopard are frequent sights is best visited Monday to Friday, avoiding the weekend. An hours' hike through the stunted windswept jungles and grassy plains of the National Park one comes to a stunning view point where the mountain gives way to a 4000-foot drop into a tea estate far below.

For those culturally inclined Nuwara Eliya has the world's only temple dedicated to Goddess Sita, consort of the Hindu God Rama, who was kidnapped by the Lankan King Ravana in mythical times. The temple stands at the location Sita had bathed while captive of Ravana. A clear spring still flows by the large colourful temple by the road, six kilometres off Nuwara Eliya town.