Ulpotha
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Paradise village offering tranquility, beauty, and luxurious simplicity as well as 2 week yoga courses (open June-July and late Nov-March only) ‘Paradise’ is the word guests most often use to describe this unique, mountain-ringed village in the very heart of Sri Lanka, about two hours north-west of Kandy. At Ulpotha you live close to nature in simple, but comfortable, one bedroom adobe houses dotted among the flowers and fruit trees of this beautiful 22 acre organic farm. You swim in a lake half-smothered in tiny water lilies, and lounge on cushions like a Roman Emperor to eat delicious home-grown organic curries and sambals. Open to visitors about 20 weeks a year, Ulpotha is run as a warm, easy-going house party, combining both friends and 12-15 paying guests, and attracts an interesting mix of people in the arts, media and professions, many of whom come alone. Two week yoga courses are run in June and July and from November to March, but Ulpotha is just as inviting for those who do not practice. There’s usually an optional daily class of some kind, and it’s well placed for walks or visiting historic sights. Yet its profound sense of peace invites you to just relax and luxuriate in its gentle beauty and quiet. read more and book at i-escape
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Review by expert member ‘Ulpotha Retreat’Legend has it that the seven hills of Ulpotha were recognised centuries ago by Buddhist monks ... Read more »
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