Grab your suitcase and your passport â TIME has just released its list of the worldâs 100 greatest places to visit in 2025.
The team of editors at the New York-based news magazine has selected remarkable destinations and thrilling new experiences travelers need to know about, as The Pekoe Trail in Sri Lankaâs Central Highlands, features in the list among everything from resorts to cruises to museums, restaurants and national parks worldwide.
The Pekoe Trail
Central Highlands, Sri Lanka
Up in the Sri Lankan highlands, a 19th-century transport network for tea is now conveying adventurers to remote communities and businesses. The 186-mile Pekoe Trailâcompleted last March and named for the high-grade black tea produced on many Sri Lankan estatesâis the countryâs first long-distance walking path, linking thousands of colonial-era dirt roads and railway tracks built by the British for exporting tea.Â
Though local companies have led trekking tours along parts of the route for years, this is the first time all 22 sections have been connected as a single trail, an initiative led by Sri Lanka-based sustainability consultant Miguel Cunat and funded by the European Union and the U.S. Agency for International Development.Â
For hikers, the path offers an intimate look at Sri Lankaâs diverse landscape and tea-entwined history: it unfurls from the mist-cloaked Hanthana mountains near Kandy, through tea plantations, eucalyptus forests, tiny villages and the holy peak of Sri Pada, to Nuwara Eliya, the countryâs tea capital. A new app highlights nearby landmarks, segment details, emergency information, and more.Â
Each stage takes about three to six hours to hike, depending on its difficulty, and traversing the entire route can take weeks. Charming staysâincluding Teardrop Hotelsâ contemporary-chic bungalows and Uga Escapesâ newly launched Halloowella, a six-suite estate formerly owned by a British army major that has been redesigned by celebrated Sri Lankan architect Channa Daswatteâensure that hikers are well-fed and rested along the way.
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