Boulder Gardens Sri Lanka

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"'This brilliantly designed eco-resort offers 10 rustic rooms – two of them in actual caves – built among boulders and streams. Meals are available in a beautiful garden restaurant. It’s a little damp-smelling, but you are deep in the rainforest, after all. Activities on tap include kayaking, caving, bird-watching, abseiling and mountain biking.'"
Lonely Planet, 2009
February 2009 More »
Boulder Gardens, Rakwana
Price From:  US $ 292.32 (Standard Suite, BB Basis, Twin)
Swimming pool   Cable TV   DVD library   Restaurant   Licensed bar   Eco friendly   Bird Watching   Trekking  
Location
Boulder Gardens is located 30 minutes from the entrance to Sinharaja rainforest in south-west Sri Lanka. Boulder Gardens (like all four Sinharajah properties) lies close to the northern entrance at Wadakale on the Kalawana to Rakwana, and is most naturally reached from either Ratnapaura or the hill country.
Introduction
Boulder Gardens is a remarkable eco-boutique hotel, lovingly designed around a crop of gigantic black boulders. It took three years to build from local stone, preserving the surrounding natural environment and providing employment to the villagers. The end result is unexpected luxury and a deep commitment to its natural environment. Here, winding steps will take you around trees with long roots, rock pools where you least expect it and flowing water. You will feel that you are enclosed in the depths of an ancient rain forest, where monkeys and wild squirrels may make malarkey in the trees, an occasional jackal may prowl and eagles and hornbills are regularly seen. Rainforests, naturally, can be wet, so be prepared, especially outside the dry season.
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Accommodation
There is a medieval feel to the 10 large and immaculate bedrooms, with their rock walls, timber beams and polished cement floors, but it is medieval with modern luxuries attached. The six stylish suites and two deluxe rooms possess sizeable beds, writing desk, mini bars, IDD phones, TVs with video/DVD, tea & coffee-making facilities, huge wall cupboards and tiled bathrooms.
Facilities
The open-air restaurant, with canvas chairs and storm lanterns, rests beneath the largest boulder of all, which supports its own mini-waterfall when it rains, whilst keeping guests dry underneath. Food - traditional Sri Lankan vies with nouvelle cuisine - is treated seriously here. The bar is a converted cave and there is a spring-water swimming pool, up to six feet deep and lit up at night.
Excursions
Boulder Garden is located just 30 minutes from the entrance to Sinharaja. This huge virgin forest reserve, the home to a remarkable array of endemic species, is recognised as a UNESCO-protected World Heritage Site and an international Biosphere Reserve. It is the country's last viable area of tropical rain forest and a haven of rare trees, birdlife, insects and bat-filled caves. Other activities include trekking, biking, forest photography, camping, and birding.
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