Article: Enchanting Hakgala Gardens

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The Sunday Observer
Article date:
August 16, 2009
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Colombo, Aug. 16 -- From experimental station to botanic gardens in 148 years:

August will soon be upon us and Nuwara Eliya's little season will begin. Memories take me back to Nuwara Eliya, the little country town of my birth and upbringing. The cool, crisp air that I breathed in over the years keeps tugging these old heartstrings of mine and my footsteps lead me on to one of Nuwara Eliya's most beautiful Haunts - 'Hakgala Gardens.'

At an elevation of 5,600-6,000 feet above sea level, it is probably the highest situated botanical garden anywhere in the world!!

In 1861, almost 148 years ago, Hakgala Gardens was established by Dr. G.H.K Thwaites, Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at ...

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