Changelog

Today's Vegetable Prices was rendering the "being set up" placeholder to every visitor since it launched: its kind, wholesale-prices, was never merged into the site. We've moved it onto the working price-board kind and refilled it with real figures — carrots, leeks, beans and the other Uva highland vegetables at Keppetipola, the wholesale market most local growers sell into — read from HARTI's daily bulletin, with the same range from a week earlier and that day's price at Bandarawela, Nuwara Eliya and Colombo noted alongside. The page is live again at the same address.

The Lipton's Seat forecast was being read from a point about 8 km west of the viewpoint, in a valley 660 m lower, and the Thangamale reading sat just off the crest of the ridge. Both now sit where they say they do. If the cloud outlook has looked wrong to you this summer, that is why.

Five questions the research kept turning up — where the best rice and curry is, what is worth buying at the Sunday fair, where to buy something warm, which walk to send someone on, and what you have to leave town for. Anyone can read it; adding an answer or a vote takes a free account.

Birds, moths, plants and animals photographed within ten kilometres of town in the last three months, from the open iNaturalist record — the Thangamale ridge, Idalgashinna, Dambatenne and the Haldummulla side. Every photograph carries its own photographer's credit, and anyone can add to it.

Foreign visitors now pay about Rs 500–600 at the viewpoint, not the Rs 100–600 band we showed; Sri Lankan visitors pay around Rs 100. The Ella item no longer hedges about whether the train runs — Badulla to Nanu Oya, through Haputale and Ella, has been running since 20 June.

The station number was published with the wrong area code (052 instead of 057). It is 057 226 8071. The contacts page and the ridge-walk note both had it wrong, and the station is still the only place the current Badulla–Nanu Oya timetable can be read.

Adisham is shut Monday to Friday but opens on poya days and public holidays; the tea factory and the council offices do the opposite. Pick the day you will be here and the planner says which is which, using the gazetted 2026 holiday list and the 2027 poya dates.

A morning-by-morning outlook for Lipton's Seat and the ridge — clear, hazy, or clouded in — from the live cloud and visibility forecast, alongside the rule everyone learns: go before 8 am.

Haputale's page now opens with a colored-pencil banner — the ridge at mid-morning, tea terraces dropping into the valley fog toward Idalgashinna.

Three tools for the ridge: a monsoon rain and landslide watch with live rainfall set against the NBRO warnings to follow, a fair-price planner for the tuk-tuk runs (Lipton's Seat and beyond) so nothing is sprung on you, and the useful numbers for the town in one place.