Aahaasa Collection has officially announced the opening of Aadya Tea Bungalows on 1st April 2026, completing its curated circuit of transformative luxury retreats across Sri Lanka’s mountains, coast, and tea country. Originally an abandoned tea estate of 200 acres,the project involved a decade long process of regenerating the tea with a masterplan including private bungalow residences, forming an exclusive community of which Aadya Tea Bungalows by Aahaasa is the hospitality partner, now welcoming guests to ten standalone private luxury bungalows with profound low-density serenity and soulful connection to the place that define the Aahaasa ethos, Sri Lanka.
“Aadya Tea Bungalows is where reflection finds grace,” says Nath Rankothge, Founder of Aahaasa Collection. “Amid the sweeping vistas of 200 acres of regenerated rolling tea hills, guests discover a sanctuary of stillness and soulful reconnection with the best of soulful, heartfelt Sri Lankan hospitality – a rare fusion of modern private luxury, authentic heritage, and regenerative purpose that elevates mind, body, and spirit in harmony and elegance.”
A REGENERATED ESTATE IN THE HILL COUNTRY
Set within a rehabilitated 200-acre working tea estate near Hatton, Aadya Tea Bungalows rests on land thoughtfully restored for over more than a decade (the largest and most ambitious long-term tea estate regeneration project in Sri Lanka). This long-term effort has revived exhausted soil and low-vigor bushes, controlled erosion, replanted endemic species alongside productive tea, enhanced biodiversity, and created sustained employment for hundreds from neighboring communities. Bordering the UNESCO-listed Sri Pada Peak Wilderness Sanctuary, the estate now unfolds across rolling tea fields, crisp highland air, with a private 9 hold golf course, 3 private waterfalls, walking tracks, kayaking, and a gentle rhythm dictated by nature’s cadence.
PRIVATE BUNGALOWS, ROOTED IN PLACE
Each of the ten private bungalows is reserved exclusively for a single party, offering an unparalleled degree of seclusion and personalisation. Designed with refined contemporary aesthetics, honoring culture and landscape, each bungalow features an expansive veranda framing endless tea-covered vistas, materials such as solid teak floors and fabrics attuned to the cool highland climate, and thoughtful details that balance modern comfort with cultural resonance. The landscape remains the true centerpiece and every element invites guests to slow down and reconnect, a nod to slow travel and wellbeing.
Stays are enveloped in the cherished tradition of dedicated Appu service, Sri Lanka’s most intuitive, generational form of butler-style hospitality that delivers seamless, bespoke warm Sri Lankan hospitality that anticipates every nuance with attentiveness, and without intrusion.
ESTATE-TO-TABLE DINING
Dining celebrates the estate’s bounty and seasonal rhythms. The Aahaara experience presents a sophisticated tea-infused five-course Sri Lankan tasting menu, featuring refined, regionally rooted ingredients. For an elemental, intimate epicurean experience, Aaloka at Aadya offers private fire-led dining at the Clubhouse overlooking a bonfire with the private golf course and peak wilderness beyond, where chefs prepare meals over flame, inspired by the land, light, and surrounding landscapes of tea, golf, and wilderness.
GOLF, WATERFALLS AND WILDERNESS
A private nine-hole golf course meanders through the estate’s natural contours, offering panoramic hill-country views and a rare sense of effortless play amid nature. Guests can immerse themselves in curated, landscape-driven experiences: bespoke private picnics and estate walks, access to three private waterfalls on the estate, kayaking on the estate’s water bodies and streams, tennis sessions, and guided nature trails led by in-house naturalists, revealing the estate’s rich biodiversity. Other experiences include private expert-led tea tastings at the legendary Norwood Tea Factory just 30-minutes down the road towards Castlereagh Reservoir, heritage excursions, and meaningful cultural engagements with nearby communities, unveiling the living traditions that shape Sri Lanka’s tea country.
A REFLECTIVE CHAPTER IN THE AAHAASA JOURNEY
Wellness is reimagined through a bungalow-led Aarogya philosophy of private, nature-infused rituals scented with the fragrant essence of up-country wildflowers and freshly harvested tea. The experience prioritises spacious seclusion, sensory balance, and effortless restoration over communal facilities.
Aadya Tea Bungalows embodies Aahaasa Collection’s “Reflective Journey,” complementing the ‘awakening’ of Aarunya Nature Resort as the sun rises over the UNESCO listed Knuckles Mountains and conservation forest, in front of the villas, and the ‘renewal’ of Aavya Cove Villas as the sound of the sea soothes the senses from private garden villas to the beach cove, on the southwest coast, near the UNESCO world heritage listed Galle Dutch Fort.
Rates at Aadya Tea Bungalows start from USD 1,000 (sharing) on a full board basis per night (inclusive of daily breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner, a selection of beverages including premium local spirits and foreign liquors, laundry, Wi-Fi, Tea Experience tour, taxes and service charges).
