Rose garden
In full bloom.
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Sri Lanka's second-largest botanic garden, at about 1,745 metres at the foot of Hakgala Rock, 16 kilometres from Nuwara Eliya on the Badulla road. It covers 28 hectares next to the Hakgala Strict Nature Reserve. It was founded in 1861 to grow cinchona experimentally, later became a site for trial tea planting, and turned into a garden in 1884, gathering subtropical and temperate plants that cannot grow in the hot lowlands. It is known for its rose garden, bright flower beds, fern and orchid houses, a lily pond and huge forest trees, all overlooked by Hakgala Rock, whose name means elephant's jaw rock, rising to about 2,200 metres. Tickets are LKR 3,540 for foreign adults and LKR 1,770 for children aged 5 to 12, open daily 07:30–18:00 with ticket sales until 17:00, per the Department of National Botanic Gardens. The flowers peak in Nuwara Eliya's spring, around April.
In full bloom.
Above the garden.
And orchids.
Nuwara Eliya–Badulla road, about 16 km from Nuwara Eliya
LKR 3,540 for foreign adults and LKR 1,770 for children aged 5 to 12, per the Department of National Botanic Gardens.