Little England or Little Creepy? Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
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Little England or Little Creepy? Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Nuwara Eliya is a city in Sri Lanka, nestled in the heart of the tea country hills. If you google Nuwara Eliya, you will likely find lots of cute pictures of the colonial style buildings, influenced by British architecture when the city was built around 1846 by British explorer, Samuel Baker. Nuwara Eliya gained its popularity not just through its rich history, but through its location as it separates the long, famous Ella - Kandy train into two shorter, manageable trips.
The funny thing is, that many people who ‘visit’ Nuwara Eliya, tend to book tours and excursions that take you straight out of Nuwara Eliya. Apart from the British-style Post Office and the racecourse, popular stops include tea plantations, tea factories and waterfalls that are a good distance away from the city.
We opted to spend all of our time exploring Nuwara Eliya itself, by foot. We wanted to meet the people who live there, try the local food and get to know the city a little better. We are SO glad that we did. We saw two very different sides to the city. It is colourful, culturally rich, beautifully green for miles and is home to wonderful, friendly people. Nuwara Eliya also feels like a lost city and abandoned in places, evoking a dystopian feel. It made us wonder whether the ‘Little England’ title has been upheld at the cost of the city’s own soul. Are they proud of this history, or is it just better for tourism purposes? Is this toy town real?
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Hey guys! Have you heard of Nuwara Eliya in Sri Lanka? Nicknamed ‘Little England’, it has many English features such as a racecourse, post office and Tudor-style buildings!
It’s common for tourists to book excursions from Nuwara Eliya, that take you OUT OF Nuwara Eliya 🤷🏼♀️
Instead, we decided to explore on foot to get a real feel for the place. What we found was very strange…
If you like our videos, please leave an emoji below to help give them a little boost! Lots of love, Kitt & Lee 🍋
It has its hiddn gems apart rom tourist attractions. This is what I took when I went there. If u see first vieo, that area is really same as england.
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Oh man the whole area looks absolutely stunning! Especially the waterfall. I think we're going to have to check out Little England for ourselves, that Tudor house looked a little out of place!
Aww guys it’s absolutely gorgeous! Definitely not one to miss if you are heading cross country Sri Lanka! We did feel like the English heritage didn’t compliment it, almost seemed contrasted and kept for tourism! But interesting nevertheless 😍 hope you guys are ok xx Kitt
I'm Sinhalese from SL and now live in Cornwall UK. It just looks like Nuwara Eliya. Not gonna Lie!. Full of mountains, Beaches and it reminds the memories of SL❤
@@ShashakaArchana-lu6ys ahh no way!! We both love visiting Cornwall when we have the chance to! Are you saying Cornwall reminds you of Sri Lanka?! I would have never compared the 2 but that’s interesting to hear you say! I gotta say both places LOVE to surf though 😍 Kitt x
For N'eliya, the season is March and April. People avoid N'eliya during the peak monsoon season which brings horrible weather. You were lucky enough to get a few sunny days there.
@@CuriousKani wow that’s interesting! So we were actually in Nuwara Eliya in mid February, but locals said to us that they were surprised by the lovely weather! I don’t think we realised how lucky we were at the time ☺️ it certainly makes the experience more magical. Thank you for your comment and for watching! Kitt & Lee
Nuwara Eliya Racecourse Situated 1,868 meters (6,129 ft) above sea level the race course is one of the highest in the world.
@@tcgunarathena that’s so interesting thank you for sharing that!! 😍
Hi Guys we watched this last night and what an epic one. The area looks amazing and quite bizarre, you two make me smile and I do miss your faces😍😄
Awww Lynne thank you! It was a strange place! Beautiful nevertheless! So many times especially whilst we’re having a beer we’d say ‘aww wouldn’t you love it if Lynne and Nick were here now’ 😂 I/we miss you too xxx Kitt
Love seeing what youre up to 🤍🤍🤍 miss you xxxx
@@skye2670 awwww piggy! In 3/4 weeks or so I should be fully caught up so you won’t be 2 months behind 😂😂 miss you too, can’t wait to see you ❤️❤️
Still baffles me to this day why it is called little England when the majority were Scots. Most estates in the area still retain Scottish Names. Tea was introduce to Sri Lanka by Janes Taylor from Auchenblae in Aberdeenshire. Enjoyed the video.
@@lincolncallander6111 wow you have a really good point there! We remember seeing Edinburgh tea plantation and our accommodation was called ‘Galway’s Edge’. My only guess as to the nickname could be because Samuel baker (rediscoverer of Nuwara Eliya) was English?? But you’re right - it should be called Little Britain 😂 Kitt
Hey!
I'm from Sri Lanka. You're absolutely right since it's in Nuwara Eliya.
The only issue though is that you have gone in the wrong time. Normally there's a season time where most of local and foreign tourists will be going to Nuwara Eliya, and it will be so full of people. So I do recommend anyone to go to Nuwara Eliya, but during the season time.
But really glad you took you're time to enjoy our wonderful country!
@@pramosax hey there! Ahhhh that makes a lot of sense! So the huge fields and car park area that we saw, would usually be full of people? We were in Nuwara Eliya in mid February, but a comment on this video today explained that the season is March and April so maybe we were a little too early! We love Sri Lanka so much. Thank you so much for watching our video it means a lot ❤️
About the play ground,
don't know much, but from what i heard there won't be people when it's school time its more like a evening park,
people will go to that place in the evening and night time.
Oh that’s interesting! Yes we were there while the kids would have been at school I imagine ☺️ thank you for watching our video! ☺️
@10.50 that is a Hanuman Kovil. It is based on a hindu book called ramayana that is a 3000+ years old book . In Sri Lanka Hanuma consider as a joke . According to the hindu stroy book called ramayana , Hanuma came from india to sri lanka to rescue a women that abducted by the king of sri lanka. So when the hanuma the genaral of indian army came to sri lanka and had a bad argument or something then the king of sri lanka set fire to the tail of the hanuma, so hanuma ran all over the city with the burning tail and set fire to the city. Sri Lankan say when some one spread bad news "It is like when hanuma's tail set on fire" as a joke.
But in india that ramayana book is a holy book not a story ,
sri lankan people refused to work in tea plantations . so the invaders go to poor areas of south india and take people from india to work in tea plantations . but even after invaders left sri lanka fully in 1977 back to england those people brought from india still are the lowest paying workers in sri lanka ,
They are highly discriminated by other tamils of sri lanka saying that people came from india low caste . In jaffna people don't donate blood members of army goto hospitals and donate blood to keep blood banks oparational. they say they don't want to mix thier high caste blood with low caste people. but they don't refuse to take blood when got in to accidents etc. less than 30% of sri lankan tamils are that way they also came to sri lanka around 400 years ago but they are the once that have power and money , they are the once use rasicim to get votes .
btw that hanuma temple made by people that came from india to work in tea plantations, they worship hanuman.
Thank you so much for your comment, that is so interesting! So Indians were taken from their home to work on Sri Lanka’s tea plantations, and the temple we visited in the video was made my these Indian people? And now Sri Lankan people use this place for their worship?
I met a guy from India recently who was explaining to me the ‘low cast’ and how it divides people in India (he spoke Tamil language and is Tamilian himself I believe)
It’s crazy to me that to this day people won’t take the blood of a person who is from a different place. I appreciate your comment a lot thank you, Kitt
@@lifelemonstravelthe caste system in Sri Lanka was worsened by the British, who used our differences to pit castes against each other for the advantage of the British rulers. Our people were manipulated and taught hate so that our British invaders could get richer and feed their sense of western superiority. They also pit the Sinhalese people and Tamil people against each other for that same greed which eventually led to terrorism, civil war and 30 years of bloodshed and economic regression.You need to learn some facts before you travel to a country and be ignorant of why that place is the way it is before yapping about things that you can never even dream to relate to. Travel is supposed to encourage growth is some people, so kindly don’t be so ready to jump to judgements just because these issues aren’t as important to you as they are to the actual communities in question.
@@chayra7517 Hi! Thank you for watching our video. We are very aware of the impact British colonisation has had on places and people. Before visiting Nuwara Eliya (and other places) we researched the history so that we can try to understand the place we are travelling to and are always respectful. We talk to locals too, and we felt that Sri Lanka and England have a very good relationship. Information online can be conflicting, so we are always glad to be educated further. If you can’t tell by our video, we love Nuwara Eliya and sing its praises in many parts. We were confused to see parts that felt ‘lost’, but have since learnt that we were here at the wrong time. There are plenty of places in England that have an eery ‘lost’ feeling too. I feel that we evoke our feelings of Nuwara Eliya, and Sri Lanka in general, in an extremely positive light throughout our videos. I feel that your comment has a lot of unbacked judgement towards Lee and I, and the purpose of our video was to never make anyone angry. Kitt
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These guys still look like who find fault in everything
By the way, did you know that there are leopards roaming around in the wild there?
For sure we know there are leopards in Sri Lanka but thought they were found mostly in the south, in Yala etc?
@@lifelemonstravel noop they roam around in the wilds of nuwaraeliya as well. Many have seen in tea plantations as well
@@ddjanuk wow that’s so cool!!! I think I would poop myself if I actually saw one 😂 but very cool!!!! 😍
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@@eshikaudayanawanigasekara thank you so much for watching our video!! ☺️ Kitt & Lee x
Another amazing watch
@@nickgaunt2742 thank you Nick!! Xxx
Welcome to Sri Lanka ❤️🇱🇰
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Beautiful couple did a beautiful work . ❤
@@FamousSri2 thank you so much for your lovely comment and taking the time to watch our video! Kitt & Lee
Enjoy Always.. lovely couple
@@danasiriherath9700 oh thank you so much! 🥹❤️ thank you for watching the video xx
You mean its confusion can be your confusion too. Because its another country n lot more.
Keep going ❤
@@ATVsrilanka thank you! ☺️❤️
Come back again Sri Lanka ❤
We hope to one day! We'd love to see more of your beautiful country! 😍
Beautiful ❤
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Welcome to Sri Lanka..
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They look like someone who finds fault in everything.
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Thanks kezza ❤❤
They look like someone who finds fault in everything
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@@areeshk3173 thank you so much!! 🥰
If you’re planning to visit Nuwara Eliya again, try to go in April. You will be surprised by how many people are there; it will take hours to get from Gregory Lake to town by car. You went there in February, so it wasn’t the season.
@@avindaanjana3423 thank you so much for this information! At the time we genuinely thought it was the peak time to visit, but now we know (since posting this UA-cam) otherwise ☺️ thank you for watching our video, it means a lot! Kitt & Lee
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@@ishanpriyasad8185 thank you for watching our video!! ☺️☺️
Let me break it to you! N.eliya is a simulation and all are robots!! JK
@@sachinwelisarage1218 😂😂😂 hilarious 😂 this is the explanation we’ve all been looking for hahaha
You two smoked a joint near the lake didn't you?
@@realDunalTrimp 😂😂 that would make way more sense if we did!!! 😂
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@@NissaraKandy thank you!!! 🥰
This couple is unnecessarily passive aggressive… why is everything regarded in a pessimistic light? ….
Hi there 👋🏻 thanks for taking the time to watch our video and leave a comment. We'd be interested to know what parts came across pessimistic & passive aggressive in your opinion? For sure, we were a little confused by some aspects of Nuwara Eliya, which which we tried to show, but those things were more amusing to us than annoying. We really loved our experience in Nuwara Eliya and had plenty of positive things to say in the video, wouldn't you agree? Lee
@@lifelemonstravel Don’t worry too much about these idiots mate. Some of these types can’t take even others opinions. Even a constructive criticism gets triggered in them. Liked your video and the authenticity.
@@mannyk2755 thank you! Really appreciate your feedback ☺️ and for backing us up 😂 Kitt & Lee
@@lifelemonstravelwe South Asians have very thin skins. So ignore it. 😊
@@realDunalTrimp haha aww, so can we sometimes ❤️☺️
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They look like someone who finds fault in everything
These guys still look like who find fault in everything
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@@madusankadissanayaka8395 thank you! 🥰
These guys still look like who find fault in everything