Sri Lanka’s highest city carries a peculiarly charming colonial highland atmosphere – Tudor architecture, rose gardens, a racetrack, and the most beautiful surrounding tea estate scenery in the country. The town functions as the gateway to Horton Plains and as the centrepiece of the tea country experience, and the quality of its highland air and its particular ‘Little England’ character make it one of those destinations that travellers find unexpectedly enjoyable regardless of their level of interest in either colonial history or tea.