Escape into the emerald highlands on a full-day journey to Sri Lanka’s most scenically romantic hill country destinations – the mist-wrapped tea estate town of Nuwara Eliya and the picture-perfect mountain village of Ella. The drive itself is a joy, winding through cascading tea gardens, cool-air valleys, spectacular waterfalls and misty mountain passes that reveal extraordinary panoramas at every turn. In Nuwara Eliya – named “Little England” by the British colonists who shaped its character- a guided tea estate visit with tasting, a stroll around Gregory Lake and the town’s charming Victorian streetscape provide a delightfully nostalgic and scenic interlude. In Ella, the iconic Nine Arch Bridge, the town’s panoramic cafe terraces and, if time allows, the lower slopes of Little Adam’s Peak deliver the perfect highland finale.