Kotagala

About Kotagala

Location
Kotagala is a small town in the Nuwara Eliya District of the Central Province, Sri Lanka. It is located 35.8 km from Nuwara Eliya at an elevation of 1,247 m above sea level.

Reaching Kotagala
kotagala can be reached by main Colombo-Kandy (A1) & then by Peradeniya-Badulla (A5) main road. The nearest railway station to kotagala is at kotagala (750m) of Colombo-Badulla main highland railway line.

Setting
At an altitude of 1247 m, Kotagala Is rings of hills covered with seamless plantations of tea.

Accommodation
Kotagala has a range of accommodation options top end hotels to mid-range hotels and guest houses.

About Nuwara Eliya District

Nuwara Eliya is a town of central province in Sri Lanka. It is located at an altitude of 1,868 m (6,128 ft) in the central highlands and is considered one of the most important locations for Tea production inSri Lanka. The town is overlooked by Pidurutalagala, the highest mountain in Sri Lanka.

Due to the high altitude,Nuwara Eliya has a much cooler climate than the lowlands of Sri Lanka, with a mean annual temperature of 16 °C. But the temperature changes and sometimes it can be like 3°C. In the winter months it is quite cold at night, and there can even be frost. Although it rapidly warms up as the tropical sun climbs higher during the day.

Sinhala and Tamil is the major language spoken in the Nuwara Eliya. The population is a mixture of Sinhalese, Tamil and the Moors. Many tea plantation workers are Indian Tamils, brought over to Sri Lanka by the British in the 19th century.

Horton Plains National Park and Victoria Park are main attraction in Nuwara Eliya.

About Central Provincce

The Central Provincce of Sri Lanka consists primarily of mountainous terrain. The province has an area of 5,674 km², and a population of 2,421,148. Some major towns include Kandy, Gampola (24,730), Nuwara Eliya and Bandarawela. The population is a mixture of Sinhalese, Tamil and the Moors.

Both the hill capital Kandy and the city of Nuwara Eliya are located within the Central Province as well as Sri Pada. The province produces much of the famous Ceylon tea, planted by the British in the 1860s after a devastating d