You wait decades for a tea plantation to come along and then two come along at once...
I've mentioned how civilised Sri Lanka is, well Nuwara Eliya raises the game with its golf links and its low humidity and its race course and its country estates and its afternoon tea on the lawn. They've turned colonial guilt into a tourist attraction.
I've finished Sri Lanka at Negombo a fishing town sort of near Colombo. I say I'm in Negombo, I'm not, I'm near it. I paused in Negombo on the way here to have a smell of the fish market but didn't stay for long.
I've headed south to an unnecessarily plush eco-villa squished between a beach and a lagoon. So plush. It's got the biggest pool I've ever seen. So plush. Course number five (alone) of the six course a la carte dinner was substantially bigger than any other meal I've eaten in Sri Lanka. So plush. The en suite bathroom is bigger than most of the hotel rooms I've stayed in.
As an aside, the bathroom is also sort of outdoors, which allows for al fresco pooing. I assume that this is to give high-end travellers the full South Asia travel experience without the indignity of having to ask the driver to stop the bus.
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