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Welcome to the beautiful city Nuwara Eliya in Sri Lanka

Nuwara Eliya Travel Guide

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Tourism in Nuwara Eliya

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Best time to visit
Nov - Apr
Ideal Duration
6-7 Days
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Starting from
Rs. 1,980
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Information About Nuwara Eliya

Nuwara Eliya is a magical place offering you everything to make your vacation special. The best part about this place is its unique climate and fresh and healthy atmosphere. The city is situated among some of the most beautiful tea estates offering attractions such as Hakgala Botanical Garden Tour, Winter market, St Clair’s fall, Gregory Lakes, Strawberry fields and many such locations which will add up to a perfect vacation. You can enjoy fresh vegetables at this place and Golf Course which is one of the best in Sri Lanka offers the most beautiful view with surrounding tea plantations on one side and flora and fauna on the other side. It is a pleasure to walk around this well planned town. During the off season as well, a very unique sight can be seen with almost everybody wearing a cap.

Before you start planning your trip to Nuwara Eliya, go through the below Nuwara Eliya tour guide to familiarize yourself with everything that you need to know about this magical city.

Climate

Nuwara Eliya has a cool, temperate climate throughout the year due to its highland location. It has a mean annual temperature of 16 °C. In the winter months, it can be really cold at night but warms up during the day because of the angle of the sun.

Food in Nuwara Eliya

Restaurants in Nuwara Eliya caters to both local and international tastes. They serve all types of cuisines from Sri Lankan to Indian to Italian. Check out this list and discover the best restaurants in Sri Lanka:

1. Grand Indian - It is one of the most famous restaurants serving delicious Indian cuisine.

2. Queenswood Restaurant - The restaurant specializes in Asian fusion but also serves Western dishes such as beef curry and delightful pizza.

3. Indian Summer Nuwara Eliya - Indian Summer features stunning views of Gregory Lake. The restaurant specializes in Indian traditional cuisine serving delicious curries to tandoori chicken.

4. Grand Thai - If Thai dishes is what you are craving for head to this beautiful restaurant which serves traditional Thai dishes.

5. Salmiya - Salmiya, a lovely restaurant serves Italian food with menu highlights including wood-oven fired pizza.

Culture

Nuwara Eliya, often referred to as little England, has a diverse culture. They have a mixed culture from the elite British class to the migrant labour force. It has a diverse population comprising Tamils, Christians and Muslims who celebrate their respective festivals like Mahashivratri, Christmas and Ramzan. The most popular festival of the city is Sinhalese New Year. One remarkable dish, Wattalapam is prepared during festivals. It is a pudding prepared using eggs, cashew nuts, jaggery, spices and coconut milk. The dish is served on a lotus leaf which will enhance your experience to eat this food.

Languages And Festivals

The two major languages which are widely spoken in Nuwara Eliya are Sinhala and Tamil. Locals also speak English but is used mainly in academics and most importantly in tourism sector.

The major festival of the city comes in April for the Sinhalese and Tamil New year. It starts on April 1 annually and mainly consists of a band show in which all the major school participates. The town really comes alive during this time and the main attractions include motor and horse racing events. If you want to visit Nuwara Eliya during this time, make sure to book your accommodations earlier as the city is really busy during this time.

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    Sarah Mathew

    Chennai

    Sarah's 6 days trip to Nuwara Eliya

    Travel Triangle helped us connect with local travel agencies in Sri Lanka which helped us plan our itinerary and trip in a smooth manner
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    Abhishek Laddha

    New delhi

    Abhishek's 6 days trip to Nuwara Eliya

    Good Trip , well organised, Special Thanks to Mr Kasun who was with us for 7 days Took gr8 care and was very helpful Gr8 Job guys
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    Kunal Lonari

    New delhi

    Kunal's 6 days trip to Nuwara Eliya

    Was one of the best experiences so far. The team was extremely responsive and handled last minute changes with ease. They are prompt in there response and always available to assist Strongly recommended for any one travelling to Sri Lanka to make your trip memorable Mirissa sunset Kandy temple S
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    New delhi

    S's 6 days trip to Nuwara Eliya

    Our holiday with trip travel hub was good. Efficient service for people in our group wanting a change in itenary at last moment. Travel agent was very accommodating. Gave us good car with driver. Only at Mirissa the room given to us was on 4th floor but no lift facility.
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    Moushumi Ghosh

    Hyderabad

    Moushumi's 6 days trip to Nuwara Eliya

    I would say my overall trip was fine but there is scope of improvement when it comes to itinerary and planning. We could not cover a lot of points irrespective of the fact we started everyday as early as 9am. We barely got any time to shop in Colombo, in fact Lotus tower was the only place we could
    vidit after our arrival to Colombo and the cab driver didn't let us shop the next day or on our last day when we headed 5-6 hours early to the airport. The hotels were good except for the fact that two of them had no lifts but we had to climb stairs which was not beforehand. In fact the hotel which had a great view in Kandy, I requested the agent if we could stay there instead of going to Nuwara eliya but since it was last minute it was not acceptable. I would give 3 out 5 as there is scope of having better experience. My best memory is the time we spent in the Millennium elephant orphanage where we fed and bathed the elephant and walked with one.
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    Vipul Jain

    Chennai

    Vipul's 8 days trip to Nuwara Eliya

    Trip Travel Hub provided what they promised, good car, good driver which is the most important aspect of the tour. Sachini from Trip Travel hub was in constant touch with us before the journey started, share the details of the vehicle before hand. Doshan during the whole trip was very helpful and gu
    ided us through out the trip. Trip travel hub is an agency which can be trusted for Srilanka tours.
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    Hyderabad

    Avani's 7 days trip to Nuwara Eliya

    The trip was very well planned and the tour guide was really good.
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    Alency

    Mumbai

    Alency's 4 days trip to Nuwara Eliya

    Hie. It was my first international trip with my frnd . The trip organised was so well. It was in our comfit zone. Did not find any trouble during the trip with the agency, driver dinuka was a gem of a person given to us by the tours. He helped us in many ways. A memorable trip All the places that
    was adviced to us was good. I liked Kandy a lot
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    Ramyashri's 6 days trip to Nuwara Eliya

    We had our Srilanka trip booked with travel triangle which provided 3 agents who were extremely patient with our itenary requests multiple times with multiple combinations. The Glamour Asia tours Pvt Ltd whose service we availed was extremely good . The booking process right from itenary preparatio
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    Anusree Sadanand

    Mumbai

    Anusree's 6 days trip to Nuwara Eliya

    I traveled with wego lanka on a solo trip from India. I visited pinnawala, Kandy, nuwara eliya and Bentota. Everything thing was very well arranged and executed.. the guide for my trip was Dulanka . He was very friendly, considerate and helpful. All in all had a wonderful trip thanks to wego lanka
    . highly recommended if you are travelling to Sri Lanka

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