Hill Country
Hermann Hesse beautifully described this area,
" The wind had just swept clean the whole valley, I saw deep blue and
immense, the entire high mountain system of Ceylon piled up in mighty walls,
and in it's midst the beautiful, ancient and holy pyramid of Adam's Peak.
Beside it at an infinite depth and distance lay the flat blue sea, in between a
thousand mountains, broad valleys, narrow ravines, rivers and waterfalls, in
countless folds, the whole mountainous island on which the ancient legend
placed paradise."
The mountainous region of Sri Lanka is most famous for its tea plantations, the
abundant rainfall combined with sunshine, cold nights and mists offered the
perfect climate for producing high gown, aromatic treas.
15°C (altitude 1800m)
