Green View Home Stay; a home away from home

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Green View Home Stay is a home away from home where you can enjoy the cool climate and the unpolluted village life located in Mawanella - a beautiful town on the way to the hill capital. Green View Home Stay is a warm and cozy home where you can relax and enjoy your stay to your hearts’ content. You are just two minutes away from the main road but you will never feel it once you

step into the property. “We are planning to expand the property at a cost of Rs. 6 million in the near future to include more room facilities and a mini pool as we want to cater to more people,” said Green View Home Stay Chairman and Managing Director Sakula Wickremasinghe. “I want all people who visit our property to feel Sri Lankan and get them to enjoy the hidden attractions of our country,” said Wickremasinghe. The place bears evidence of a traditional upper middle class family who up to the present generation, maintain their family values, traditions and principles. Sunil and Padmini are the loving parents to three boys, one of who is Sakula. Both husband and wife love gardening with being Sunil somewhat a horticulturist whose green fingers have created quite a peaceful garden. They want everybody who stay with them to feel happy and content in all aspects and they have taken every step to ensure that the guests stay is comfortable. The 6,000 square foot garden is full of flowers, fruits and vegetables and they both tend to the garden as they would their children. You could just sit on the terrace or in the garden with a village cat or a loyal dog who would sit by you lovingly where you can enjoy the cool breeze which is unpolluted while there is no noise other than the chirping birds and twittering squirrels.

You will be served with a glass of fresh juice or king coconut, the produce which is picked from their garden. On request, they are ready to offer you a meal at very reasonable rates. All the Sri Lankan food cooked at Green VIew Home stay is organic. However if you feel bored, just walk up to the junction on the main road, see the village tailor, barber, or carpenter or take a tuk tuk ride down the hill where leather craftsman have their stalls and see their tannery. A little further down are the fruit vendors who sell delicious bananas. The lush red banana is best and tastiest in Uhtunwankanada. Walk to your left and visit the village church or go for mass on Sundays and pray with the village folk. Visit a spice garden or a small batik handicraft centre. These are all possible when you stay at Green View Home Stay. In addition, cycling, hiking and village walks also are arranged on the request of the visitor. They can visit Mawanella or Uthuwankanda to see how Sri Lankans live and get an experience of Sri Lankan lifestyles. The place offers free WiFi, cable TV, hot water, private dining room with a refrigerator, in-house cooking lessons, free chauffeur/guide rooms as well as airport transfers, A person who visits Green View Home Stay can visit the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage, the temple of the tooth relic in Kandy, Peradeniya Botanical Gardens, Gadaladeniya temple, Lankathilaka temple, Embekke temple, Biso Bandara temple, Aluthnuvara devalaya, Saradiyel rock, cave temples, Alagalal rock as well as the beautiful cascading waterfalls. Green View Home Stay is registered at the Ceylon Tourist Board as a superior grade property.