As we drove towards Nuwara Eliya hills, known as the garden city of Asia we crossed a few valleys, with waterfalls and streams where people could be seen bathing.
We then stopped at the Ramboda falls for lunch just before heading to one of the best known tea plantations in the area.
It is said that prior to the huge tea plantation areas in the Nuwara Eliya, there were coffee plantations, whose workers were Tamil Nadu emmigrants, though according to a legend it is still "believed" that one day in order to stay awake to meditate, Buddha tore out his eyelashes, which in falling miraculously caused the birth from the soil of two luxuriant tea plants.
Realistically though, the tea plant is today the first item in the Sri Lankan economy ...
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