By thotalagala on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018 in Articles, Features. No Comments
ARareWorld Luxury travel publication featured Thotalagala on their 2018 May edition. Here is what they have to say, “It’s a restored hilltop plantation house circa 1870, with a view that’s like sitting on a cloud. In fact, even the clouds are often below the sightlines from Thotalagala (pronounced something like Taut-Al-Uh-Gal-Uh). One night here […]
By thotalagala on Monday, March 19th, 2018 in Articles, Reviews. No Comments
A thick carpet of emerald tea plantations cloaks Sri Lanka’s Hill Country. On the southwestern side of the region lies the lovely ‘golden valley’, Bogawantalawa, where amidst a sea of tea, planters’ bungalows overlook mirror-still Castlereagh Lake. Across on the eastern side of the uplands, the landscape is different: tea gardens mingle with pine forests and merge […]
By thotalagala on Tuesday, September 26th, 2017 in Articles. No Comments
The first time I went to Haputale was to challenge Mrs Queenie Daniel to a game of Scrabble. Mrs Daniel was renowned throughout Sri Lanka’s tea country as a formidable (if not entirely scrupulous) board game player. But when I checked into Hyacinth Cottage, her quaint B&B, Mrs Daniel was off visiting relatives in Kandy. […]
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