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Hiking in Sri Lanka is absurdly underrated. On an island you can drive across in a day, you get 2,500-metre peaks, cloud forest, lowland rainforest with…

Ella, Sri Lanka is a small town that punches far above its weight. Twenty years ago it was a quiet junction in the tea country of…

The Knuckles Mountain Range is where Sri Lankan hikers go when they’re serious. East of Kandy, this UNESCO-listed wilderness — part of the Central Highlands World…

Sinharaja Rainforest is the wild heart of Sri Lanka — the island’s last substantial stretch of lowland rainforest and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988.…

The Devil’s Staircase is the hill-country hike that Sri Lankan hikers recommend to each other — a roughly 14 km mountain route between Kalupahana, down on…

The hike to Garadi Ella is about 2 kilometers long and takes about 1 hour to complete. The trail is well-maintained and easy to follow. There…