A twelve-day trekking-focused journey along Sri Lanka’s Pekoe Trail – the island’s first long-distance walking route through the tea country highlands from Kandy to Galle via Hatton, Haputale, and Ella – with proper trekking stages, specialist trail guides, and tea estate lodge accommodation throughout the highland sections.
Every day is designed to offer a new perspective of this beautiful island. From the cool hills to the warm beaches, experience it all.
Drive to Kandy – the Pekoe Trail’s northern gateway – for a tea heritage museum visit and the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic. Kandy is where the trail’s story begins.
Drive into the Hatton tea estate highlands for plantation walks, the first taste of Pekoe Trail terrain, and the colonial estate bungalow character of the Bogawantalawa and Dimbula valleys.
The first dedicated trekking day on the Pekoe Trail, walking through Hatton’s estate road network and mountain village communities with views across the Castlereagh Reservoir landscape.
A second Hatton-region trekking stage through the continuous highland tea estate landscape that makes the Pekoe Trail one of the most visually sustained long-distance walking experiences in Asia.
Transfer toward Haputale for a tea factory visit and the extraordinary Lipton’s Seat viewpoint overlooking the southern plains.
A trekking day through the Haputale section of the Pekoe Trail – cloud forest sections, estate paths, and the ridge viewpoints that define the trail’s southern highland character.
Transfer to Ella and an afternoon at the Nine Arch Bridge and surrounding highland landscape.
The Ella section of the Pekoe Trail through Little Adam’s Peak and the surrounding tea estate trail network.
Drive south to Udawalawe for an afternoon elephant safari.
Coastal drive to Galle for a full afternoon in the UNESCO Dutch sea fortress.
