Harper’s Bazaar rates Jetwing Vil Uyana
The best eco luxury hotel:
Situated among reed beds and paddy fields, over the first man-made
lake since the era of Parakramabahu I, among the peace and tranquility
of Sigiriya is what Harper’s Bazaar calls the Best Eco Luxury Hotel in
Sri Lanka! That would be none other than Jetwing Vil Uyana. The
sophisticated Harper’s Bazaar is an international magazine which dates
back to 1867.
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Paddy Field Bungalow. Picture by Ganga Illeperuma |
Its British publication was born in 1929 and caters to an audience
that thrives on the work and writings of the best photographers,
designers, artists and writers and their perspectives on the world. It
is the award winning Harper’s Bazaar UK which has deemed that Jetwing
Vil Uyana “is alive with colourful birds, the rooms are sumptuous and,
as with all Jetwing hotels, there is an evolved environmental policy,
offering a refreshingly intelligent approach to luxury travel”.
It comes as no surprise to the team at Jetwing Hotels that one of
their own have been branded as the Best Eco Luxury Hotel in the country
with an “intelligent approach to luxury travel”. The entire concept of
Jetwing Vil Uyana is centered on the idea that it is environmentally
responsible and follows the practices of green living.
Vil Uyana is an unusual and groundbreaking project of Jetwing Hotels,
which has for the first time in the world created a private nature
reserve through the construction of a wetland system with lakes and reed
beds.
The hotel itself is built on a section of land that is used to
re-grow paddy with rooms which have been placed within the paddy fields
themselves. The extremely unique aspect of this hotel lies in the fact
that a wetland system was introduced into a part of the traditional dry
zone creating an excitingly new type of approach to eco-living and the
eco-lifestyle.
This Lifestyle Hotel has strived to introduce practices which have a
minimal impact on the environment and to conserve the biodiversity
within its environs.
Thus Jetwing Vil Uyana practices the 3R concept of Reducing,
Recycling and Reusing resources to ensure that the environment is
managed conscientiously. Pretenders there will be but as Harpers Bazaar
has recognized, it is difficult to imitate the real thing! |
