Haggala garden

Hakgala Botanical Garden is one of the five botanical gardens in Sri Lanka. The other four are Peradeniya Botanical Garden , Henarathgoda Botanical Garden , Mirijjawila Botanical Garden and Seetawaka Botanical Garden. It is the second largest garden in Sri Lanka. The garden is contiguous to Hakgala Strict Nature Reserve. HAKGALA Botanic Gardens in Sir Lanka is not like other botanical gardens I visited before.

The variety and organization of the garden is something noticeable. Although I visited during December and it’s not a preferable seasons. Once after the Tea replaced the Cinchona, it was turned into an experimental Tea cultivation in Nuwara Eliya. These attractive gardens, 10km southeast of Nuwara Eliya, are a peaceful retreat.

Highlights include a fine rose garden , a Japanese garden , an orchid collection, cedars and giant cypresses. However, the entrance fee is very steep for foreigners. South-east of Nuwara Eliya, the popular holiday resort. Hakgala is a temperate hill-country garden , where the lovely low-country lotus and water lily mingles in their serene simplicity with sophisticated English roses, pre-historic looking ferns, and endemic orchids.

Where the garden ends, starts the Hakgala natural reserve, home to a variety of wild life, including bears, monkeys and birds. We are in Central Highlands (Up country) of Sri Lanka. Hakgala Gardens lie beneath the towering Hakgala Rock some 10km south of Nuwara Eliya (Little England) with majestic views across hills receding in tiers into the distance. Good availability and great rates.

Book online, pay at the hotel. The park receives rainfall of 2days a year and the average temperature is between 3-degrees Celsius. TripAdvisor among 1attractions in Nuwara Eliya. Its located In Nuwara Eliya.

The mean annual temperature ranges between °C to °C during course of a year. It is home to approximately 10varieties of flowers, and the blooms are at its peak during spring. It’s famous for Orchids and Roses planted here. It is located 1metres above sea level, km from Nuwara Eliya, on the Nuwara Eliya-Badulla highway.

This is considered Sri Lanka’s Second Botanical Gardens. The Botanical Garden is first as a cinchona plantation and then adapted to an experimental garden for the acclimatization of plants from temperate zones in the tropics. The development of Hakgala Gardens as a botanic garden was initiated by Mr William Nock and since then many varieties of flowers and trees, both local and foreign, have been introduced. A network of small creeks, complete with wooden bridges, is seen throughout the garden , creating a magical atmosphere.

I was the first into the park and it was very quiet and so beautiful in the morning sunlight. He used the garden for coffee and cinnamon plants. Haggala Botanical Garden. A former cinchona (from which antimalarial quinine is extracted) plantation.

Hakgala means jaw rock, refering to a legend about the monkey god Hanuman. Hagala botanical garden was named as the Ashok Vatika in Ramayana written by valmiki and included in most Sri Lank road trips organized for travellers coming from India. Is situated on the Nuwara Eliya-Badulla main roa km from Nuwara Eliya.

How much do tickets usually cost? What is the quickest option? Tea plantation, Colonial and Circuit Holiday Bungalows in the hill country of Sri Lanka, which covers cities like Nuwara Eliya Badulla Seethaeliya Bandarawela Hatton Horton plains Nawalapitiya etc.

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