This is certainly a thriving cultural capital with its universities and centres for Buddhist learning and the arts. Kandy, the royal capital of the hill country is a UNESCO world heritage site, built beside a placid lake surrounded by hills. It is also Sri Lanka’s heartland for market gardens and dairy products endless rows of vegetables and strawberries hug the slopes, vying for space with the tea bushes.

Thanks to the multitude of micro-climates, the landscape is constantly changing, and it is an incredibly beautiful mountain area, worth visiting for the scenery as well as the tea culture. Popularly known as the High Tea Country, the temperate highlands of southern central Sri Lanka are wonderfully scenic with stunning mountain and valley vistas almost everywhere you go, and of course, often carpeted in tea bushes. Arranged in three buildings and on three levels, the Amaya Hills bedrooms offer magnificent vistas towards mountains and valleys, the junior suites and suites providing a more spacious and luxurious option.Īn Expressions tailor-made holiday to Sri Lanka’s Tea Country incorporates the best of this diverse and exotic region. You can enjoy a cup of Ceylon tea in the Tea Room, sip cocktails in the Dumbara Bar or live it up in the underground nightclub, Le Garage. The hotel has an organised children's programme whilst adults can indulge in relaxing ayurvedic spa treatments and put in a few early morning laps in the swimming pool. Belonging to the Amaya Resorts and Spas hotel group, Amaya Hills offers a range of resort facilities that both adults and children can enjoy, including table tennis, board games and DVDs. The designs at Amaya Hills embody the spirit and architectural riches of the ancient kingdom of Kandy, combining bold lines and rich colours with whitewashed walls and intricate wooden carvings. One of the highlights of a stay here is taking breakfast on the terrace of Rasawala restaurant, enjoying the magnificent views over the pool to the valley and hills beyond. The impressive four star Amaya Hills hotel is perched on the edge of Mount Hantana in the hills that surround Kandy, Sri Lanka's cultural capital.

Amaya group of hotels