Sri Lanka is an absolutely stunning country. ... developed the town, and the British Governor, Sir William Gregory, even considered making Nuwara Eliya the country's capital.

Sri Lanka can be best described as south Asia in miniature form, filled with beaches, elephants, tea plantations, curries, ...

So British estate owners pushed for a rail system to transport coffee. In 1867, the British completed a railway from the city of Kandy in central Sri Lanka to the coastal city of Colombo.