Breathtaking landscapes, ancient history and vibrant culture, all on one island, and most of it within a few hours' drive.
Sri Lanka packs an improbable amount into 65,000 square kilometres. You can watch leopards at dawn in the dry southeast, stand in a two-thousand-year-old sacred city by lunch, and be drinking tea at six thousand feet the next morning. These are the nine places our journeys are built around, tap any one for what to see and when to go.
Ancient kingdoms, colonial forts, tea-cloaked mountains and turquoise coasts, all within a few hours' drive.
Set in Sri Lanka’s central highlands and wrapped around its own lake, Kandy is the island’s cultural heart, the last capital of the Sinhalese kings, home to Buddhism’s most sacred relic, and noticeably cooler than the coast..
Explore Kandy
Sri Lanka’s capital blends modernity and tradition in the same block, colonial warehouses turned into restaurants, temples on the lake, and a seafront promenade that fills every evening.
Explore Colombo
A historic city on the southern coast where a Dutch fort still occupies its headland behind three centuries of sea wall.
Explore Galle
The island’s premier wildlife destination, in the dry southeast.
Explore Yala
At 6,000 feet, Nuwara Eliya is the centre of Sri Lanka’s tea country, cool, misty and unmistakably shaped by the British planters who built it.
Explore Nuwara Eliya
The island’s first capital and the heart of the Cultural Triangle, a sprawling sacred city of stupas, monasteries and reservoirs, much of it more than two thousand years old and still very much in use..
Explore Anuradhapura
A peninsula and a scatter of islands on the northwest coast, shallow lagoons, a huge coral reef offshore, and reliably strong winds that have made it one of Asia’s best kitesurfing destinations..
Explore Kalpitiya
The northern peninsula feels like a different country, Tamil in language and culture, flat and palmyra-covered, ringed by islands, and only recently back on the travel map.
Explore Jaffna
A coastal town twenty minutes from the international airport, which makes it the natural first or last night of almost any trip.
Explore NegomboMost trips mix two or three of these. Tell us which pull hardest and we'll weight the route accordingly.
Leopards in Yala, elephants at Udawalawe and Minneriya, sloth bears and a bird list that runs past four hundred species.
Blue whales off Mirissa and Trincomalee, dolphins at Kalpitiya, and the reef diving along the Bar Reef and the south coast.
The Cultural Triangle's ancient capitals, the Temple of the Tooth, and colonial forts on three separate coasts.
Estate bungalows, factory tours and the slow hill-country railway between Kandy and Ella.
Adam's Peak before dawn, World's End on the Horton Plains, and the Knuckles range for anyone wanting solitude.
Kitesurfing at Kalpitiya, surfing at Arugam Bay and Weligama, and white-water rafting at Kitulgala.
Our tours run from seven to twelve days and are built for honeymooners, families, wildlife enthusiasts and culinary travellers. None of them are fixed departures, each is a starting point we reshape around you.
View all toursTell us roughly when you're coming and what you'd like to see, and we'll suggest a route that makes sense of the island.