Clunes Villa, Avissawella - Detailed!

After visiting the Wijaya Holiday resort twice, We were desperately in need of a new and a good place to visit. All these outings happened after exams or after some stressful incident most of the time. So we need to spend our day in a more relaxing and a nicer place. While Me, R'jala and Hasi were looking for some ideal places for our purpose, this place was accidentally found. Me and R'jala was going to visit another friend of ours and we happened to come to Avissawella town. Then for some other reason we wanted to go to this Clunes Villa.

Then the hard time came when we tried to locate this place... First we turned to the left side (i.e. Hatton side) from the Avissawella town and were looking for this place. Once we passed the famous 'Hotel Picturoseque', we asked a guy by the side of the road "Where can we find Clunes Villa?" But the problem was this guy never had heard of it. Then as we went further R'jala was able to locate a small road( more like a footpath) turning sharply left from the main road which had a sign post saying 'Clunes villa'. Even though this road directly leads to the place, there are some tricky turning points, but no fear as you can easily get directions from anyone you meet traveling in that road.

So that was all about getting to this place.. Then on another day we all went in there to have a good spend the day! This small road which I mentioned earlier is more like a road through a paradise. As we began ascending this road, we came across a small waterfall, many rubber estates, and a nice view of the mountains. There's another thing which must be mentioned about this road. There are leeches ( very huge ones) in the sides of this road so be careful if you come up with an idea to explore the waterfall or something. [ as Hasi found out when he had the brave idea of going near the waterfall, and came up with a hand full of leeches ;-) ]

There are two buildings belonging to this hotel. One is found at the entrance of the hotel and the main building is located a bit far inside the hotel. We were warmly welcomed by the reception and we spent some time to explore the place. The place was more like the shape of a holiday bunglow and had a pool table, a piano and a projection tv to be used as leisure items.

There are bicycles that one could hire(which we did) to be used for trekking along the small footpath like road that curves around the hotel as well as the adjoining rubber estates. We hired three of them ( so we had to pay a small sum for them separately) and went down the above mentioned road. It was a bit tiring because of all the slopes and hills but a worthy experience as we could observe the nature more effectively in this way.

When we returned it was time for a good bath and the pool was also in a nice secluded place which we had to climb a bit and dive in ;-).There's a small fact to be mentioned when talking about the pool that it has no changing rooms near by so we had to organize a room inside the main building to be used as a changing room. ( the matter could have been worse if all the rooms were full that day...) The pool was designed to give an infinity look as the edge was a slope but I must say that it was not that successful as the view was not too good. It had a leaking problem also by which they tried to avoid by putting some empty fertilizer bags in to that hole. Except for the few short comings mentioned above, we had free and quite time at the pool.

Lunch we had after the swim was also magnificent and it was served well, and i have to say that it was well worth the price, considering the Ala' carte at the Wijaya Resort. We played a game of pool after the lunch and spent some time there enjoying the birds chirping quietness. It was altogether a nice place to visit after making a prior reservation and ideal for nature lovers as it is covered with all the greenish backgrounds...

**There's an important message to deliver about the latest situation of this place, as it has been temporarily shut down and pending further information. The date which it will be reopend is not sure at the moment and we will post it as soon as it opens!