Ancient ruins, leopard-filled jungles, rolling tea plantations and beaches that face no other land — Sri Lanka in its most intimate, unfiltered form.
Design your Sri Lanka journey →Sri Lanka is small enough to know completely — and rich enough to never fully exhaust. In ten days you can watch leopards hunt at dusk, stand at the summit of a boulder fortress that took a king five centuries to carve, drift through a spice garden that has been cultivated since the Dutch arrived, and finish the week on a beach so silent that the only sound is the tide. We know which beach. We know which fortress entrance. We know which guide.
Sri Lanka has the highest density of wild leopards in the world. Yala at sunrise, in a private jeep with a naturalist who has tracked the same animals for fifteen years. The encounter is never guaranteed — but rarely missed.
The hill train from Kandy to Ella — considered one of the most beautiful rail journeys in the world. We arrange a private carriage and a Dimbula estate visit where the superintendent walks you through the day's plucking himself.
The Lion Rock fortress — 5th century, carved into a 200-metre granite monolith. We arrange entry before the site opens to the public. At sunrise, you will be alone on the summit with an archaeologist and the view of the entire Cultural Triangle below you.
Colombo to the Cultural Triangle, through tea country to the coast. Fully adjustable to your pace and season — best timed November to April.
Afternoon walk through the Pettah market and Dutch colonial quarter with a local guide. Dinner in a restored merchant house in Colombo 7.
Sigiriya at dawn. Polonnaruwa ruins by bicycle. Ancient Anuradhapura with a Buddhist scholar. Nights in a colonial-era jungle lodge.
Temple of the Tooth at dusk. The hill train to Ella the following morning — one of the world's great slow journeys.
Private safari drives at dawn and dusk. A boutique lodge on the national park boundary. The leopard is close — we know where to look.
Mirissa or Tangalle — a private villa on the Indian Ocean. The silence after ten days of extraordinary things.
Tell us when you want to go — and we will design every moment of what comes next.
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