This tour takes you into the misty, rose-scented world of Nuwara Eliya, the highland town that the British colonial administration shaped into a deliberate recreation of the English countryside at 1,800 metres above sea level. The scenic drive through the tea highlands via Ramboda Falls and the Pussellawa valley is itself a highlight of the journey, arriving in a town where mock-Tudor buildings, a golf course, a horse racing track and a colonial-era hotel called the Hill Club continue to evoke a peculiarly atmospheric piece of preserved Empire. The tour includes visits to Gregory Lake, the town’s colonial market streets, and a working tea estate en route, providing a beautifully strange and characterful experience of Sri Lanka’s relationship with its own colonial history.