Driving through Sri Lanka’s never-ending tea plantations, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’re in another country altogether.
The pace slows, the traffic thins out and the landscape turns a verdant green with row after row of tea bushes as far as the eye can see.
One of the hubs of the region is Hatton, which is now home to Uga’s latest property, the six suite, all-inclusive Uga Halloowella, which opened in January.
Perched on a hilltop overlooking Castlereagh Reservoir and set within a peaceful 101-hectare tea estate, it was once the home of Major Elton Lane, a World War I fighter pilot for the British Royal Air Force.
