Great Mountain Trip in Sri Lanka - Hotel Silver Fall

9:49 am Personal Stories, Roy Daily News

I’m back from my 8 days trip to Sri Lanka! I’m both happy and sad. Happy because I’m back to Singapore, back home, back to where I need to quick start my next level of business.

A bit sad, as I miss my friends and teacher, food and environment of Sri Lanka.

Today, I’m going to share a bit more on the fun I have in the 8 days of the trip. Then, over the following 2 days, I would share more on my experience and insights about my trip.

This is my 2nd trip to Sri Lanka, and other than fun, relax and play, there’s a stronger purpose and meaning to it, which I strongly look forward to it.

On my 6th day of my trip, we went from sea-side resort to mountain hotel. It took us about 4 hours to climb this mountain of at least 2,000 meters above sea-level to reach this hotel.

The weather is very cooling as we climb higher and higher. The hotel that we stayed at is almost at the peak of the mountain. There are many hotels on top of it. Not only that, we see a lot of beautiful sceneries…

like natural waterfall, lakes, tea-plantation, vegetations and not forgetting the fresh air and the simple life in the mountain region.

This is just one of the waterfall along the way up and down the winding mountain roads. (A quick snap from my camera as bus is moving pass)

Beautiful entrance of the Hotel Silver Falls. The reason why it’s called Silver Falls is because of a waterfall nearby the hotel. Great hotel as usual, great rates!

A quick photo taking with the beautiful backdrop of mountain greens… the beautiful couple that you see here is my parents. (Note how strong the winds are, and it’s really cold up there. )

If you look into the background, you might be able to spot the waterfall that gave it’s name to the hotel. And in the background, all the greens are all tea-plantations.

Almost all of the them belongs to foreign companies, one of the famous company is Lipton. And you might be shocked to hear this, as I do, all the lands are 999 years tender, which is as good as freehold. (Do you smell opportunity as I do?)

On our way down, here’s a typical tea-plantation that you’ll see, and we stop by to taste some tea, and of course, buy some high quality great tasting tea for my good friends.


At the end of the day, we walked out with bags of tea. I think we bought at least almost 10 kg of tea from this factory. Almost all of them are gifts!

It took us about 3 hours to get to the foot of the mountain, and we stop by for lunch. A quick thought came to my mind… haha… took a quick photo of my lunch.

You might be surprise, I love the food in Sri Lanka. Of course, when we are out, we usually dine at better restaurants and hotels, and they serve better food.

Our host would never let us try street-food, so I cannot give my opinion on that. The vegetables, curry, and the crackers are so tasty…

Even the rice is so different from place to place. Generally, the food is good, I like it and enjoy as much as possible while I was there.

Tomorrow, I’ll share more about my experiences and insights. It’ll be more on the heavy stuffs, observation that I met.

Most importantly, one very reason you must pro-actively check my new post is that, I’ll blog a specific incident that happen to us while we are heading down the mountain road.

It could be possibility one of the most memorable and life-changing incident that I will never forget in my entire life.

If you like to hear from me, check out my post tomorrow.

To Your Success,

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3 Responses

  1. Jerome Ho Says:

    Wow, that’s wonderful to share your holidays
    with your loved ones in Sri Lanka. You’re
    so blessed….it the seasons whereby the
    fruits of your labour shall be harvest in human
    form..isn’t that earth-like blessings whereby
    many urtbanite Singaporeans are denied of.

    Cheers. Jerome Ho

  2. James Koh Says:

    What a wonderful holidays and journey.
    It fantastic unlike other holidays.
    I hope i got the time and money
    to go to Sri Lanka very soon. Wo, Sri
    Lanka also has beautiful spots.

  3. Roy Phay Says:

    Hi Jerome,

    Yes! Nothing beats seeing my parents all relax and unwind in the short 8 days trip. I’m really thankful and truly blessed.

    Hi James,

    Yes! it’s great holiday! And it actually didn’t take a lot of money to go for Sri Lanka. I guess you just have to plan for it.

    Cheers,
    Roy

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