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In the host's own words.
Little Cardamom is the family home of Nirmala and Sunil, on a quiet lane above Ella town. From the veranda you look straight down the Ella Gap, with tea hills on both sides. The guest rooms open onto a small garden of cardamom, pepper vines and banana trees.
Breakfast is included and you eat it with the family: hoppers or string hoppers, coconut sambol, fruit from the garden and a pot of tea from the hills around you. Nirmala also cooks dinner when you ask: rice and five curries, most of them from her own garden.
Sunil drives a tuk-tuk and can take you to Little Adam’s Peak, the Nine Arches Bridge at Demodara or Ravana Falls. Their daughter Hasini keeps bee boxes at the end of the garden, and the family’s kithul palms grow just behind the house.
Little Cardamom is registered with the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) as a Home Stay Unit.
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In-house experiences you can add when you stay here.
Example · Kithul Treacle at Dawn, with the Family
from USD 18 / person
Wake up at five with Sunil and walk to the kithul palms behind the house. The tapper climbs the tall palm; you stay on the ground, hold the clay pot and watch how the sweet sap is collected. Back in the kitchen, Nirmala boils the sap slowly into golden treacle, and breakfast is hot hoppers with the treacle you carried down. It takes about two hours. Children who can walk on a garden path in the early morning are welcome.
Example · Bee Boxes and Honey Tasting
from USD 14 / person
Hasini keeps nine bee boxes at the end of the garden, between the tea bushes and the pepper vines. Put on a bee suit, open a box with her and see how the bees build their comb. Then sit on the veranda and taste three honeys collected at different times of the year; each one tastes different. It takes about one hour. Children from eight years old can join, in a small bee suit.
Everything the place offers, in groups.
Ella 90090, Sri Lanka
What the place asks of every guest.
| Check In | 1:00 PM |
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| Check Out | 11:00 AM |
| Hotel Policies |
Check-in and check-outCheck-in is from 1:00 PM and check-out is by 11:00 AM. If you arrive early, leave your bags and have a cup of tea on the veranda.
Living with the familyPlease take your shoes off inside the house. The family goes to bed early, so the house is quiet after 10:00 PM.
MealsBreakfast is between 7:00 and 9:30 AM. Dinner is cooked when you ask before 3:00 PM. Vegetarian meals are easy to arrange.
ChildrenChildren are welcome. The garden has steps and a low wall at the edge of the slope, so please stay with young children outside.
SmokingNo smoking inside the house. You may smoke in the garden.
Changes and cancellationsChanges and cancellations follow the Sarisara cancellation policy for your trip.
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