Hatton is the heart of Sri Lanka’s most famous tea-producing region – a highland landscape of extraordinary scale and beauty, where rolling hills are covered from valley floor to ridgeline in the precise, geometric patterns of working tea cultivation. Planter-led visits to working estates provide genuine access to the full story of Ceylon tea, from the morning plucking through withering, rolling, and drying, to the tasting that reveals the remarkable range of flavours produced in these hills. The surrounding accommodation – some of the island’s finest boutique and plantation stays – makes this a destination to slow down in and truly savour.
