- Duration
- 10 days / 9 nights
- Price Per Person
- From $14,500
Bogawantalawa Valley
Located in Nuwara Eliya District in Sri Lanka's Central Highlands, the Bogawantalawa Valley remains largely as it has existed for centuries. It is a key access point for Horton Plains, one of the country's best parks. Visitors can hike and bike through verdant tea estates and stay in colonial bungalows once home to British overseers, but updated and restored for modern travelers.
Experiences
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Colonial Bungalow Stay
Stay in one of four classic colonial bungalows built for British tea estate managers in the days of the Raj. They offer guests the unique experience of life on a working tea estate in the highlands – the elevation here is over 4,000 feet.
Mountain Biking
Go mountain biking nearly 5,000 feet above sea level. Cycle off and on road tracks through the surrounding valleys, hills, tea plantations and villages with the independence to explore and stop off wherever you please.
Organic Gourmet Dinner
Enjoy a gourmet dinner served to you on the grounds of your bungalow, prepared by a private chef, featuring wine from an extensive cellar, fresh tropical fruit, and organic produce grown on the estate.
Private Plantation Lunch
Remote Lands will arrange for a private lunch a nearby tea plantation, where you will witness firsthand the leaf pickers at work, producing some of the world’s most renowned teas.
Walking and Hiking
Enjoy a gentle walk, or a more rigorous trek, around the varied landscape of Bogawantalawa valley, in the heart of Sri Lanka’s tea growing country. Walk through the sea of green tea plantations and admire the shimmering lake below and mountainous forests. Explore exotic flora, observe an array of birds and wildlife and absorb the majestic views some 4,000 feet above sea level. Take a pit-stop at one of the villages or a local British colonial bungalow for afternoon cream teas.
White Water Rafting
Enjoy the thrills of running over fast flowing river rapids, in contrast with the serenity of gliding through calm pools and past cascading waterfalls. Your white water rafting adventure will begin at Kitulgala an area of natural beauty, where you will mount the Kelani River. The clear Kelani’s waters originate from the slopes of sacred Adam’s Peak and stream their way through Sri Lanka’s Hill Country before pouring into the Indian Ocean. After safety instructions from your guide, you will continue to cruise seven high quality, class III warm water rapids and float through tranquil stretches of river that open up into pools ideal for swimming.
Sri Lanka Regions
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Bogawantalawa Valley Itineraries
- Duration
- 15 days / 14 nights
- Price Per Person
- From $19,500
- Duration
- 14 days / 13 nights
- Price Per Person
- From $14,000
- Duration
- 13 days / 12 nights
- Price Per Person
- From $15,200
- Duration
- 26 days / 25 nights
- Price Per Person
- From $30,100
- Duration
- 9 days / 8 nights
- Price Per Person
- From $7,100
- Duration
- 14 days / 13 nights
- Price Per Person
- From $23,200
- Duration
- 10 days / 9 nights
- Price Per Person
- From $5,800
Ceylon Tea Trails
Bogawantalawa Valley, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, once known as Ceylon, is one of the world's historic centers of tea production, replete with rolling green hills and genteel plantation homes. Ceylon Tea Trails, run by the Dilmah Tea Company, has restored four classic colonial bungalows built for British tea estate managers in the days of the Raj. These historic houses offer guests the unique experience of life on a working tea estate in the highlands (elevation here is over 4,000 feet). The bungalows range in...
Camellia Hills
Bogawantalawa Valley, Sri Lanka
Deep in the heart of Sri Lanka's tea country rests Camellia Hills, a boutique hotel overlooking the pristine, mirror-like Castlereagh Reservoir that extends for five miles through the region’s deep, picturesque valley. The hotel's five fan cooled rooms afford panoramic views of the surrounding scenery. Guests can relax in the comfortable open-air lounge equipped with an inviting fireplace or enjoy international cuisine at theindoor restaurant or outdoor, open-sided terrace. Nestled in the property’s garden sparkles a 10-meter infinity swimming pool that offers another perspective from which to take in the surrounding lake and mountain views. The accessible location affords such excursions as exploring nearby tea estates, hiking to view hill-dwelling leopards, ascending to the island's highest point at Nuwara Eliya, or a day trip to the sacred mountain of Adam's Peak. Neighboring the likes of Dickoya and Hatton, Camellia Hills is the newest of the renowned boutique hotels run by The Sri Lanka Collection.
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