Who said it’s a Resort. It’s an experience…..
Why Ella Jungle Resort
Spend
your holiday at Ella Jungle Resort and feel
the Difference of busy city life
and being tranquil in the pristine jungle.
Bubbling mountain springs and
gusting streams in the vicinity of misty mountains will add peace to your life.
Ella
Jungle Resort is nestled on the banks of Kiridi Oya River which meanders through Uva Province of Sri Lanka. With its abundant variety of flora and fauna. Ella makes the perfect place for your heart
to stop.
Taking
adventure risks can bring significant
personal experience reward. Time spent with the nature can provide
intense and rare opportunities. It also
develops new skill and knowledge. More than all, adventure plus nature. Stops
your heart and that is what you desperately Seeking for.
Ella
offers comfortable lodging foe visitors around the world to get closer with
nature allowing them to have an un
intrusive glimpse of a wild paradise.
Amidst your restless busy
schedules, nonstop work load in the concrete city. You no doubt need an eco friendly
vacation. A destination where you can find both green and glamour and enjoy luxury with a
conscience.
Worthy Ride.
Situated
12 km away from the Ella Railway Station and an hour’s drive from the Mattala
Airport.Ella Jungle Resort is also 10 minutes walk from Ella Jungle Inn.
The
distance from Colombo to Ella is 205km
while a drive from the Bandaranayake International airport in Katunayake will
take about 6-7 hours but it is worth driving that long. You can take the Colombo – Rathnapura –
Badulla route. A nine hour journey from
the train will also give you wonderful sceneries of the hills and valleys of
the central highlands. Ella Jungle
Resort is also located about 7 km away from the beautiful Rawana falls which
creates wonderful scenery during the rainy season.
The
beauty of natural cliffs, caves, jungles and of course of the brides, make
Ella, a trekkers paradise. The historic Dova Temple.
The Dunhida Falls and the Demodara Railway station are places that you
should take time to visit. Those who
love to travel to beautiful cities like Bandarawela and Diyathalawa. Ella is a perfect base.
Birth Of Ella Jungle Resort
The
Chairman of wild Holidays which runs Ella Jungle Resort. Vijith Welikala talking Sri Lanka the Treasure Island explained the motives and
background of the birth of this magnificent spot.
“we
are not hoteliers really, but this came through our passion about the nature
and jungle. We sell silence here. You can’t explain it because silence cannot
speak. Silence cannot be communicated
with words since it’s beyond the mind.
This silence creates a fiction in your mind. Your mind will get lost and it will get a break
to be away from your workload at office and problems that you go through
everyday.”
“Today
people are quite mechanical and glued to modern technology where they have no
space to enjoy the nature and its beauty.
So we give them an opportunity to have wonderful time with this natural
environment.”
Transform Yourself
According
to him , this resort is a place for a transformation. “ This is a kind of a
scientific temple. You can have a
vegetarian meal and listen to some classical music and meditate as well. The target groups vary for this resort
depending on different factors. In the
local market, the main group is corporate institutions and when it comes to the
international level. We basically expect
tourists those who travel from country to country looking for the real meaning
of life. Most probably this market is
extremely rich in every aspect like, Money, power, education etc. they just
want to enjoy the peaceful averment of the
nature which they cannot buy at any price.
They call it spiritual travel, it’s not pilgrimage though.
“This
is the only holiday resort on Sri Lanka which has been totally set in a
tropical rainforest to provide the tourists with a brand new experience. To get to the resort, you have to walk along
a path close to a water stream. Once you are in the resort, no doubt, you
will feel that you are really in a jungle.
The specialty here is . we offer visitors a set of adventure games such
as mountain biking and canoeing during your stay. These activities will keep you enthusiastic
and create unforgettable memories of your journey”. He said.
Areal drop is one of the interesting activities
they offer to the travelers. As Mr .welikala
mentioned, these activities are created to make people confident and to let
them feel that they are capable of many things that they have never even
thought doing of. Though you are in the
jungle, you will not be kept apart from the world. That is why they provide you with Wi-Fi
facilities in the common areas of the resort such as site restaurant where you
will enjoy both local and continental cuisine.
Fresh Fresh exciting.
You
will definitely enjoy a sumptuous of meal with a large variety of food. What is unique is that food is fresh, natural
and more towards tropical Sri Lankan recipes.
“When
I talk about food. I must say that we take most of the fruits and vegetables
from our own plots and paddy fields and also from the nearby villages as far as
possible. Some of our staff members have
their plantations and we directly buy their harvest and give the tourists a
really fresh meal” said Welikala.
Team Spirit
The
out bound training is a novel experience for those who want to improve team
work skills. For companies this has
become a good opportunity to train their staff.
They will set camps in the jungle and put the participants into groups
where they have to achieve a pleasure hunt.
It is a kind of a walk in the jungle for about Six kilometers to achieve
a given target. The objective of this to enhance team working
capacities.
“This
programme has been designed for three days and within this period every person changers a lot. We remove all the designation labels before
we start this programme. So there are no
CEOs.Managers. executives or clerks.
Everybody is in the same boat and
has to work as a team for family. We
have highly talented trainers here who have gone through extensive trainings
and are capable of impossibly difficult tasks.
They train the participants quite well and they , being a team set a
perfect example for the trainees to work as a team. This includes both mental and physical training:. Welikala noted.
Come and Relax
As
he revealed, the foreigners who come to this place have different
objectives. Some just want to
relax. They come to enjoy the natural
beauty of the jungle and they enjoy their holidays sitting somewhere and reading books. They walk in the jungle and enjoy the
climate. During their stay, they just
live as part of the nature and they walk out and observe the jungle.
According
to Welikala, every person is framed into
a box either with their career or studies etc.
Now he suggests people to come out of this box and try novel things and
to enjoy the nature. At Ella Jungle
Resort you will automatically tempted to try yourself.
Your Choice
The
Ella jungle resort consists of a number of accommodations units that guests are
allowed to choose from. The property
consists of a tree house which is the ultimate nature lovers’ hideout.
There
are deluxe rooms that offer great views over the mountain rangers of Ella. The family room which is spread across two
levels can accommodate a small family easily.
The greenly surrounding at Ella , will sooth your body and mind with
cool breezes, greenly sceneries and sweet melodies of birds and that is why
Ella has becomes the most wanted resort by the tourist, both local and foreign.
The
resort also offers standard rooms with basic facilities. Each accommodations unit consists of a private
bathroom with shower. So, if you are waiting for a perfect holidays
which will crave abundance of wonderful memories in your heart, just don’t
think twice to walk into this amazing place Ella Jungle Resort.
In Sri Lanka, cinnamon has
originated from the Central Hills where several species of cinnamon occur
periodically in places such as Kandy, Matale, Haputale and the Sinharaja Forest
range. Although Cinnamon cultivation is presently concentrated along the
coastal belt stretching from Kalutara to Matara, it has made its way inroads to
the inland of Kalutara, Ambalangoda, Matara and Ratnapura.
