Sri Lanka can be hot and humid like any tropical island nation, but the tea country is another story. What a wonderful story it is in the cooler mountains. We spent the latest long weekend having a driver take us about 4-5 hours aways to higher elevations. The Farm Resorts is a quiet refuge with comfortable rooms, amazing views, and a delicious little restaurant. It was a great break from the humid seaside city of Colombo.
We probably could have arranged sightseeing tours around the area, but we just wanted a quiet weekend together to relax. We enjoyed two mornings of kayaking, strolled the beautiful grounds around the tea plantation, and spent an afternoon painting landscapes together. The resort provides painting supplies and easels for a modest fee.
Our chosen painting time coincided with an afternoon shower, so that was lucky. It was a great use of the covered balcony overlooking the small reservoir lake. The reservoir level was low ahead of the upcoming monsoon rain season. It revealed interesting natural steps carved by the water into the banks and some side areas of dried lake beds which added something a little more interesting to the scenary.
Enough words since the pictures speak more. Let's start with lunch at their little restaurant with a view. There's only 7 rooms available in the chalets, so it's a small resort which can't get too overcrowded. This was an excellent place to chill both literally and figuratively with the pleasant days and the nights down into the 60s F.
tea picking on the hillside outside the restaurant
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| our view for the weekend |
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| we were lower level of one of the two room units |
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| kayaks |
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| some threat of rain which didn't really show up until the next afternoon |
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| a dried up part of the lake bed |
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| the tea bushes look like a huge manicured garden |
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| they are essentially manicuring the bushes as they pick the tea leaves |
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| heading down to kayak |
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| the seaplane dock |
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| picking tea |
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| a view of our chalets |
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| a tuk brought outsiders here to go kayaking at our resort |
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| a tough job, but at least there's a great view |
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| my attempt at a brighter interpretation of the rainy landscape |
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| kayaking on another morning to the other part of the lake before heading home |
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| another seaplane |
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| driving home from Dickoya which is also seen as "Dick oya" online even though it sounded like it was pronounced as dic-koya by the locals as the resort. |
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| Stopped at a restroom which overlooked a river. I took a pic of the river and not the restroom. I have priorities and the first priority was to use the restroom and then admire the river. |
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