Itinerary | Architecture Tours - Option I - Year Round |
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Duration Info | DAY - 8 (Ella) |
Accommodation Info | |
Location | ELLA |
Meals Info | Bed & Breakfast |
Hotel | Oak Ray Ella Gap |
Image | 6.jpg |
Id | 259 |
Created | 4/25/20, 12:49 AM |
<ul><li>Breakfast at the hotel.<br></li><li>Visit Dambetenna Tea factory, Lipton’s Seat and Adisham Bungalow.</li><li>After that, start the trek through the Thangamalai Sanctuary to Idalgashinna railway station</li><li>Lipton’s Seat is the summit point of the Poonagala Mountain often used by the Scottish tea baron Sir Thomas Lipton to view his tea plantation empire. If you are there you will have the birds-eye view of Handapanagala Lake, Chandrika Lake, Udawalawe Lake, Wedi, and the Hambanthota harbour as far as on the southern coast.</li><li>Then you will be visiting the longest tea factory in Sri Lanka of the Dambetenna tea factory from where you can how the tea comes into your cup.</li><li>Adisham Bungalow, a country house was built in 1931 by an English aristocrat and planter Sir Thomas Villiers. This is a masterpiece of British architectural design.</li><li>Thangamalai sanctuary is a 3km hike on a clear trail through the forests along with the neighboring villages.</li><li>Dinner and overnight stay at Oak Ray Ella Gap </li></ul>