Madulkelle Tea & Eco Lodge

Overlooking the spectacular mountains and valleys of the island’s interior, Madulkelle Tea & Eco Lodge offers an only-in-Sri-Lanka experience: a tranquil luxury boutique hotel set on a working tea plantation. Safari-style tents form the entry-level accommodations, while higher-end options gain solid walls — but all are open to the breeze and in direct contact with the hotel’s idyllic surroundings. A grand dining room offers dishes concocted with vegetables and herbs from the hotels’s own garden, and an English-style bar keeps conversation going long into the night. Day trips and hikes can be arranged, as well as guided tours of tea-making facilities; meanwhile, couples spa treatments are offered in thatched pavilions with mountain views and the nearby trickle of a running stream.