We did Newyears in Ella so Here is Nurwara Eliyia

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OK so untill I get the new keyboard figured out looks like pics will come first in post

there are some shots of the “Grand Hotel” A very upscale and bueatiful colonial period place very well maintained. I didn’t even ask what the room rate was.

Also you can see there is a lot of new construction going on here, which will probably continue as long as tourism keep increasing.

This town simalar elavation to Ella was the British “hill fort” A place where the colonial masters could escape the heat, sweat and humidity of most of Sri Lanka.they built a golf course, horse race track, some really fine holtels, and of course a bueatiful miticulous garden park. Now it’s a nice Sri Lankan town but retains all those features. I liked it . It was cool. I wlked the garden , got my e-visa for Myanmar printed, and went to a free tea museum. A fallow up from my Ella ea factory tour this was a very posh office / sales room for Mackwoods tea. but I got a one on one tour guide for the “museum” room. who spoke excelent english and explained all the intricacies of tea cultivation and grades. More understanding of how to process the raw tea leaves into what goes into your teacup. Then given a nice rather formal tea service of (green tea is really the only type I like) . Green means they skip the short fermentation stage which is only a few hours of leaving the crushed/rolled leaves on tables befor the dryer which stops the fermentation. Green goes right to the dryer after the rolling / crushing / cell breaking process. Fermenting is what turns tea black.

OK pics of Nurawa Eliya maybe I can get them attached after this text. OK kay aparently not but there you are Nuwara Eliya