Hiriketiya
The near-perfect horseshoe bay on the deep south coast where jungle meets the shoreline and the surf is gentle enough for beginners without losing interest for more experienced surfers – a destination that retains the character of genuine coastal discovery despite growing steadily more popular. Hiriketiya is the kind of place that most travellers find […]
Madu River
The inland mangrove wetland system near Balapitiya on the southwest coast – a 900-hectare network of channels, small islands, and mangrove ecosystems explored by small motorboat in a slow, intimate nature encounter that is completely different in character from any safari drive or coastal beach stop. Cinnamon island, Buddhist temple island, kingfisher-filled mangrove tunnels, and […]
Ritigala Forest Monastery
An ancient Buddhist forest monastery built by ascetic monks in the 1st century BCE on a granite hillside deep in the dry zone interior – its stone pathways, meditation platforms, and bathing ponds now slowly reclaimed by one of Sri Lanka’s richest medicinal forest reserves. Ritigala takes effort to reach and rewards that effort with […]
Gal Oya National Park
Sri Lanka’s most remote major national park is accessible primarily by boat on the vast Senanayake Samudra reservoir – and the boat safari experience of watching wild elephants swim between the reservoir’s islands is simply not available anywhere else in the world. The park’s extreme remoteness keeps visitor numbers very low, the wildlife encounters feel […]
Nuwara Eliya
Sri Lanka’s highest city carries a peculiarly charming colonial highland atmosphere – Tudor architecture, rose gardens, a racetrack, and the most beautiful surrounding tea estate scenery in the country. The town functions as the gateway to Horton Plains and as the centrepiece of the tea country experience, and the quality of its highland air and […]