The mountainous region referred to as Up Country often scented with wild mint and eucalyptus is rich with botanical wonders and facinating wildlife amid glossy green acres of tea. Estates with names like Westward Ho! Somerset or Glen Loch where planters rode horseback at dawn have tea factories which resemble Mississippi riverboats.

For a hundred and fifty years this outpost of the Empire was home to 2,000 British planters who built their homes with gabled roofs, mock Tudor beams, bow windows surrounded by Box and Yew. These plantation bungalows invite you to relax into a Somerset Maugham elegance where everything stops for Tiffin on the lawn of the Hill Club.

So experience luxury at 4,000 feet with the intoxicating air, a champagne of teas – the exclusive golden liquor called White Tea- to toast your platinum lifestyle.