Nuwara Eliya Hotels

... while going "uuummm" and trying to figure out what price you'll go for.  It's hysterical!)   Two things made Nuwara Eliya bearable. The nine liquor stores around the bus station. If I lived there I would be drinking heavily too. The ...

... and dirty at the top.  And I thought it was supposed to be lonely up there! Although we had planned to depart for Nuwara Eliya (henceforth NE) at 10:30, we didn't get away until just after noon due to Joanne and Marlon's late return from scaling ...

... today. The people with whom I had spent the lovely afternoon yesterday recommended the take away box lunch from one of the good hotels in town (The Glendower).   There was a choice between pork, beef, chicken or fish - with rice and ...

... lobby.  The hotel also has a terrific bakery which I always visited even if just driving through the town.  Other fine hotels in Nuwara Eliya include the St. Andrew’s Hotel (Tudor style mansion) and the Hill Club (130 year old granite ...

... We took nearly 4 hours in total enjoying the walk and I'd highly recommend it even though it is quite expensive. Heading back towards Nuwara Eliya we were thankful we had chosen to take a jeep. The car park was packed with full size buses which should ...

From Adam's Peak, I decided to head towards the central highlands area of Nuwara Eliya tovisit the famous tea plantations. Taking advantage of my new travel buddy Andy who happened to be travelling by motorbike, I hopped on the back and we had ...

... live the life of a tea plantation owner (the one in the big house !) when she is reincarnated. So we have arrived at Nuwara Eliya.  This is a very British little Sri Lankan town.  Some of the buildings are straight from the Raj, particularly the ...

Here are those rules - don't stay in resort hotels, don't stay in the middle of nowhere, don't eat 'western' in ordinary hotels & take the bus when its easy. So Liz's idea of staying by the Ramboda Falls was a bit mediocre, not helped by the old ...

... "Little England" - a remnant of the old country stuck in the heart of the tropics.  However, the reality is that Nuwara Eliya is less of a period piece than the locals would have you believe, with an unappealing expanse of concrete shopping arcades ...

... on to Ella to catch the train to Nuwara Eliya.  Again, feet hanging out the door of the carriage.  This time in Nuwara Eliya, I saw the Botanical Gardens and got shown many fine things by one of the gardeners there.  It was raining but it ...

... tomorrow if we are to explore the hill country.  The information man has an idea there is a Divali relief train running to Nuwara eliya tomorrow morning getting there about 2pm we can then get a car to Kandy and there is room on the Kandy to Colombo ...