Situated at around 2000m above sea level and surrounded by lush tea plantations.

Nuwara Eliya is the main hill resort of Sri Lanka and the heart of the tea indu stry. This city with an elevation of 6200 meters is the highest in Sri Lanka. On ce a pleasure retreats of the European planters the town is still very much an E nglish town with many English style bungalows and buildings. History says Nuwara Eliya is discovered by a hunting party led by Dr. John Davy in 1818. The British governor at the time, Sir Edward Barnes, was told about thi s and subsequently decided to take residence there, soon creating a health resor t, which soon became internationally renown. Nuwara Eliya is decidedly English in someway (houses, gardens and places names) and was actually planned to be an English village by a pioneering Englishman, Si r Samuel Baker in the mid 19th Century. Travellers from the UK will be particularly attracted by the architechture which is decidedly Victorian. Even modern buildings are build in the same fashion to preserve Nuwara Eliya's unique atmosphere. Nuwara Eliya was home away from home for the British colonialist in the 19th cen tury.