Galle Fort & Southern Coast Exploration
Galle Fort is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is also a functioning neighbourhood – boutique hotels and art galleries occupy former Dutch merchant homes, residents use the rampart paths as an evening walking route, and the boutique studios, independent bookshops and excellent restaurants inside the 17th-century coral-stone walls give the place a living vitality […]
Kandy Cultural Heritage Tour
Kandy is Sri Lanka’s last royal capital and its cultural heart – and the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is the most venerated Buddhist shrine in the world outside the island itself. The puja ceremony, when the inner shrine opens to candlelight and the sound of drums fills the gilded chambers, is an experience […]
Polonnaruwa Heritage Exploration by Bicycle
Polonnaruwa was Sri Lanka’s medieval royal capital from the 11th to the 13th century – more compact and better preserved than its ancient predecessor Anuradhapura, and navigable by bicycle in a single deeply rewarding morning. The Royal Palace complex, the Sacred Quadrangle and the Gal Vihara rock temple are the centrepieces. The Gal Vihara is […]
Anuradhapura Ancient City Bicycle Tour
Anuradhapura was Sri Lanka’s first royal capital, founded in the 4th century BC and in continuous use for over a thousand years. The Sri Maha Bodhi Tree – planted in 288 BC from a cutting of the original Bodhi Tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment – is the oldest documented living tree on earth, […]
Sigiriya Rock Fortress & Dambulla Cave Temple
Sri Lanka’s two greatest archaeological achievements in a single day. Sigiriya Rock Fortress rises 200 metres above the surrounding jungle – a 5th-century royal citadel with ancient hydraulic water gardens at its base, celestial frescoes painted directly onto the sheer rock face, a mirror wall inscribed with devotional poetry spanning a thousand years and panoramic […]