So, here's how to have fun in Nuvara Eil:
Walk through the park Victoria
Victoria Park is a public park in Nuwar Elia, who spread out next to the post office and a golf club of the city. Once here, the Dubok Princess Germany was planted, having resting in a mountain town - around him, one can say, and the park was formed. Later, the park was renamed in honor of Queen Victoria - it was the case in 1897, just on the day of the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Highness. The park is pretty small, and you can bypass it at all in just minutes for 15. Entrance to the park is paid - about 300 rupees per person (such is the price for foreigners - for the local ticket there are only about 40 rupees). The park offers stroll past the numerous types of colors and shrubs - everything is green, everything blooms! If you arrive here in the evening at the weekend, then the park may be a little dirty - sometimes the locals do not bother to throw garbage where it should be (although in general everything is clean and neatly). Contact your employees - they can arrange a small excursion and introduce various plants.Walk through the Botanical Garden of Hacghal
This is one of five botanical gardens in Sri Lanka. It is located on the main road of Nuwar Elya-Badulla, 16 km from Nuwara Elia. The garden was created in 1861 as an experimental platform for growing a frying tree (cincons), which was used for the manufacture of drugs from fever, malaria, etc. Then it was decided to grow tea instead of kin, and the territory was quickly turned into tea plantations. In 1884, the field was transformed into the garden where many subtropical plants and plants growing in a temperate climate were delivered and planted. Do not compare it with a botanical garden in perangement - these are completely different parks.
In the garden today more than 10,000 species of plants grow, and thousands of visitors arrive annually to admire the wonderful flowers (more than 500,000 people walk in garden trails per year!). Also, the garden is famous for its rosas, greenhouses with orchids, tree ferns, which are generally rarely found. The entrance to the park costs about 1100 rupees; Most of the territory can be bypassed for about 2.5 hours. Usually the park is not crowded - but he is a miracle as good: beautiful views of the mountains, terraces and alleys, cute ponds and streams.
Walk through Horton Plains National Park
The protected area is covered with mountain meadows and wet forests. This plateau at an altitude of 2100-2300 meters remains numerous endemic types of plants. There is a park 32 km from Nuwara Elia. Chief "Attraction" here - open "WORLD'S END" ("The end of the world"). It is a sheer cliff with a height of about 1,200 meters and the most visited part of the park - to look "over the edge of the world" is very scary, but those who want to be eliminated!
In a kilometer from the main cliff, there is a cliff smaller (300 meters high) - it is called "SMALL World's End" ("Small Edge of Light"). The Indian Ocean is located 80 km south and from these rocks can be perfectly visible in clear days. Second Beauty Park - Waterfall Baker (Baker's Falls). The height of the waterfall is 20 meters, the view opens rather impressive. Named a waterfall in honor of Sir Samuel Baker, a famous researcher who, by the way, and founded this mountain settlement once.
Next to the waterfall, among rhododendrons and fern, can be accommodated on Picnic. Waterfall Sleb-Rock - Another famous park waterfall. In brochures and prospects, various animals will be printed, which inhabit the park - but, alas, meetings with them in real life are not so frequent. But get a lot of pleasure from the surrounding landscapes will be determined. Start the hike in the park is better from the waterfall, i.e. Going "against wool", then in the end it will be easier (there is a pleasant 10-kilometer trail through the field, forests, meadows and dry river bed). Entrance to the park is paid and expensive. If you are going to this mini-hike early in the morning, it is better to get enough warm (but the day begins). In the local cafe to the left of the parking lot you can buy delicious fresh donuts.
Golf Club
Well, few of our compatriots can boast that ever played golf. It is hardly our favorite sport, but on such chic mountain meadows it is just a sin! Nuwara Eliaya Golf Club It was founded in 1889, and this is one of the oldest golf clubs in Asia and, perhaps, in the world - traditions and the unique atmosphere of this place is difficult to overestimate! The club is surrounded by one of the best tea fields on Sri Lanka, and the 18-hole field (in length about 5550 metro) framed by high trees and a dense shrub wall. Professionals are mainly played here, since the field is not the simplest - with constant lifting and descent and numerous water obstacles.Horse riding and boating on Lake Gregory
The atmosphere of Lake Gregory reigns unique. This place does not seem like anything else on Sri Lanka - such a feeling that I moved to another country, to another planet: everything is contrastingly compared to other cities and villages of this country, but everything is very beautiful and unusual. On weekends along the coast, many people wandered - children with balls and sweets, happy couples.
You can ride on the lake in the boats or in the swans boats, you can ride a horse or, in the end, just sit at the water. Lake is located, you can say in the city center - it is small: in length near a kilometer, in width - no more than 500 meters in the widest part.
Hike to grief pidrutagged
Pidrouded, the same known as "Pedro Mountain" is the highest point of the island. Its height is 2524 meters above sea level - but in fact, the height over the adjacent plate location is only about 700 meters. From the city to the foot of this dome-haired mountain, wondering wild forests, is not more than 15 minutes away by car. Ride the mountain means to experience an amazing feeling of unity with nature. This is perhaps the "Mast Si" of the city (or even the entire Sri Lanka). If it is clear, you can even see the height of Sri Pada (Peak Adam). It is a pity that the Pedro's Makushkin itself can not stand - so far it is forbidden. But still, kinds are chic! And it is better to go to the top in the morning, as the majority of tourists arrive there in the afternoon.
