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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aragon" data-source="post: 5701914" data-attributes="member: 134516"> World's End Lodge Eagles Nest - Lower Ohiya Sri Lanka Hotel Review - Horton Plains      <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NYlAcT1wV60/SEyeEpPBxpI/AAAAAAAAAUk/mJyLozy04bc/s400/2008-03-08+Eagle%27s+Nest+Ohiya+Visit+169.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Judging a hotel by how you get to it is like judging a book by its cover. The drive to World's End Lodge, Lower Ohiya (drive on the A4 past Belihuloya and turn right at Kalupahana Junction and keep going up, up and up) was excruciating. When we turned off from the A4, we saw some lights, high up and far in the distance, and joked that that was where we were going. When we got to the hotel, we felt like a couple of jokers: that was where we were. The last bit of the climb is a series of hair pin bends with signs painted on rocks urging you forward "just a hop skip and a jump," etc. We walked out of the car around midnight - we left at 7pm - and our minds were blown. There is no light pollution and you're high up on a mountain: the stars are clearly visible, seemingly just out of reach. For me, it was as if I was really seeing our night skies for the first time, so clear were they. Another sign of how high this was - even inside the room, you can hear the wind whistling and swirling around angrily, banging at the windows. <img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NYlAcT1wV60/SEyeT6aSHqI/AAAAAAAAAUs/wot5Zc8VNDU/s400/2008-03-08+Eagle%27s+Nest+Ohiya+Visit+063.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> We got set up in the new wing called Eagle's Nest. The rooms cost us Rs 3,800 per person nett from Friday's dinner to breakfast on Sunday. The older wing was Rs 500 cheaper per person but we figured, what the hey, let's splurge like the OGs we are. The rooms are new but basic. We didn't find the lack of A/C a problem at this altitude but the thin-and-not-that-comfortable mattresses were an issue. The bathroom was brand new and very clean with running hot water. The pool is a natural pool but hadn't been cleaned for a while with quite a few leaves and insects swimming around. And it was cold, freezingly so. <img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NYlAcT1wV60/SEyeubmDI4I/AAAAAAAAAU0/rFB9vZCku7M/s400/2008-03-08+Eagle%27s+Nest+Ohiya+Visit+096x.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The food was really good. Basic Sri Lankan food like fried rice, rice and curry, string hoppers, etc. served buffet style but pretty well done with vegetables from their garden. I want to give special mention to the tea, which is spectacular - we drank pots of the stuff. I'd suppose it'd be easy to get good tea with Haputale just down the road and also really good water this high up but, as so many Sri Lankan hotels botch it, World's Ends Lodge's version is even more commendable. Activities are limited to carrom and swimming but there is good hiking if you're willing to improvise a little. We walked to Bambarakanda Falls - 18km - through jungle, multiple river and paddy field, asking for directions and picking off leeches all along the way. Rooms - basic with clean, new bathrooms. Food - basic but good. Location: amazingly gorgeous. World's End Lodge is definitely a place for your bucket list. Hotel Name: World's End Lodge Address: Lower Ohiya, Sri Lanka Phone: +94 57 567 6977 </blockquote>

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