After breakfast, proceed to the hill country of Hatton. Check in at a beautiful tea planter’s bungalow and spend the rest of the day at leisure.

This is the ideal setting for trekking and biking against a symphony of natural landscapes from mountains and lakes through to winding roads and waterfalls.

The Ceylon Tea Trails are the world’s first tea bungalow resorts, perched at an altitude of 1,250m in Sri Lanka’s panoramic Ceylon tea region, which borders the World Heritage Central Highlands. The properties are all about the time-honoured planters’ traditions: Roaring fires and the comfort of a single malt whisky while the mists roll in or a stiff gin and tonic after a long day’s walk in the tea gardens, accompanied by the spicy flavours of Sri Lankan nibbles to stimulate the appetite.

After breakfast this morning proceed to the south for some wild-life! Check in at your boutique private bungalow which invites you to get off the beaten track and relax amongst nature – where bird-call and the rustle of wind in the trees replaces the shrill noise of the city.

Be surrounded by distant chants from the village temple and be awed by a sky full of stars at night. You can take a stroll in the gardens and observe squirrels, birds, and small animals in their natural setting and if you’re lucky a visiting peacock

Be met by your in house ranger to go on an afternoon game drive at the Yala National Park.

Yala National Park is Sri Lanka’s most famous National Park and with good reason it is home to an amazing range of wildlife. Its magnificent sights of majestic elephants, fine-feathered peacocks, great black bears and agile leopards that steal away into the shadows of the thick foliage are unparalleled to any of the national parks in the country.

This morning head away from the crowds on a spiritual journey outside of Galle. Embark on a short tuk-tuk drive on little back roads through the lush and green paddy fields, where there are no tourists to be found but a few villagers harvesting the crops or having a chat with their neighbor while sipping on some toddy freshly extracted from a nearby palm tree.

Once on site, climb the stairs to get to the Yatagala Temple – which means “under the rocks” as the Buddhist statues lay under the huge stones piled up on each other, don’t forget to look up!

Receive the blessing from the devoted monks while being are lulled by the sound of the Pali chants.

In the evening settle down for a special pool side Dinner under the stars at the property.