Moon Plains through time

Nuwara Eliya 1885–2019 15 photos of this spot

15 photographs taken at the same spot in Nuwara Eliya, spanning 1885–2019 — 12 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

A wide panorama of Nuwara Eliya, the hill town in central Sri Lanka's tea-growing highlands, captured in 1885 during the period when the British developed the area as a cool-climate retreat.

EU: Panorama van Nuwara Eliya (1885) 1885 A wide panorama of Nuwara Eliya, the hill town in central Sri Lanka's tea-growing highlands, captured in 1885 during the period when the British developed the area as a cool-climate retreat.

EU: Panorama van Nuwara Eliya (1903) 1903 A panorama of Nuwara Eliya, a hill town in central Ceylon known for its cool climate, photographed in 1903.

EU: Panorama of Nuwara Eliya, viewed from One Tree Hill (1903) 1903 A panorama of Nuwara Eliya taken from One Tree Hill in 1903, showing the hill station that British planters developed as a cool-climate retreat amid Ceylon's tea country.

EU: Panorama van Nuwara Eliya 1903 A 1903 panoramic view of Nuwara Eliya, a hill station in the central highlands of Sri Lanka that the British developed as a cool-climate retreat amid tea plantations during the colonial era.

EU: Panorama van Nuwara Eliya (1908) 1908 A panoramic view of Nuwara Eliya, a hill station in central Ceylon, photographed in 1908.

EU: Newera Eliya from One Tree Hill 975 (1908) 1908 Nuwara Eliya seen from One Tree Hill, photographed in 1908. The British developed the hill town in Ceylon's central highlands as a cool-climate retreat.

EU: Panorama van Nuwara Eliya, Newera Eliya from One Tree Hill (1908) 1908 Nuwara Eliya, a hill town in the central highlands of Ceylon developed by the British as a cool-climate retreat, is shown in panorama from One Tree Hill in this 1908 photograph.

EU: Newera Eliya from One Tree Hill (Panorama van Nuwara Eliya) (1908) 1908 This photograph offers another 1908 panorama of Nuwara Eliya taken from One Tree Hill, the vantage point favored by photographers for views over the hill station's valley.

EU: Panorama van Nuwara Eliya (Newera Eliya from One Tree Hill) (1910) 1910 A further panoramic view of Nuwara Eliya from One Tree Hill, photographed in 1910, shows the hill station much as visitors of the period would have seen it.

EU: Newera Eliya from One Tree Hill, panorama of Nuwara Eliya (c.1910) 1910 Taken around 1910, this photograph again surveys Nuwara Eliya from One Tree Hill, the customary lookout above the town.

EU: Panorama of Nuwara Eliya from One Tree Hill (c.1910) 1910 Taken from One Tree Hill around 1910, this panorama looks over Nuwara Eliya, the hill station the British developed in Ceylon's central highlands for its cool climate and tea plantations. The town became a favored retreat from the tropical heat of the coastal lowlands.

EU: Panorama van Nuwara Eliya (1910) 1910 A 1910 panorama of Nuwara Eliya, the hill station in Sri Lanka's central highlands that the British developed as a cool-climate retreat from the coastal heat.

MountPedro SriLanka01 2010 Mount Pedro near Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka, photographed in 2010. The hill town in the island's central highlands developed as a British colonial retreat prized for its cool climate.

Moon Plains 2018 Moon Plains is an open grassland near Nuwara Eliya, in Sri Lanka's hill country, valued for its cool air and sweeping views over the surrounding tea estates planted during the British colonial period.

Roadside captures in Nuwara Eliya 2019 This 2019 photograph was taken along a road in Nuwara Eliya, a hill town developed by British colonists in the 19th century as a cool-climate retreat amid Sri Lanka's tea-growing highlands.