Destinations

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

A small island, an enormous world. The light is softer here, softer, more golden.

A small island, an enormous world. The light is softer here, softer, more golden.

Sri Lanka, through your senses.

Sri Lanka, through your senses.

Sri Lanka, through your senses.

Burj Al-Arab, Dubai
See Sri Lanka

A tea plantation curving into the mist.

A Buddhist temple perched on a rock formation that seems impossible.

a river running through a rocky canyon
Hear Sri Lanka

Pirith echoing inside the Temple of the Tooth before the city stirs.

Rain on the Sinharaja canopy, the forest absorbing every drop.

a river running through a rocky canyon
Hear Sri Lanka

Pirith echoing inside the Temple of the Tooth before the city stirs.

Rain on the Sinharaja canopy, the forest absorbing every drop.

people walking near white concrete building during daytime
Smell Sri Lanka

A cup brewed at source in a Nuwara Eliya plantation bungalow.

Real cinnamon; sharp, warm, nothing like what you know.

brown rock formation under blue sky during daytime
Taste Sri Lanka

A rice and curry that arrives in twelve small bowls and keeps surprising you.

A king coconut cracked open on the Galle road, still cold.

brown rock formation under blue sky during daytime
Taste Sri Lanka

A rice and curry that arrives in twelve small bowls and keeps surprising you.

A king coconut cracked open on the Galle road, still cold.

people walking near white concrete building during daytime
Feel Sri Lanka

Dambulla's cool interior, 2,000 years of murals on every wall.

Hill country air after the heat of the lowlands.

Did you know?

A 2300 Year Old Tree

A 2300 Year Old Tree

There's a tree in Sri Lanka that has been alive for over 2,300 years, and is still worshipped daily? The Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi is the oldest human‑planted tree in the world with a known planting date and believed to be a direct descendant of the original Bodhi tree under which Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment in Bodh Gaya, India.

Nod for No, Shake for Yes

Nod for No, Shake for Yes

In Sri Lanka, nodding means no and shaking your head means yes? It looks exactly like the universal sign for no. Every traveller gets caught out, usually when a tuk-tuk driver appears to be declining to take them somewhere.

Cinnamon

Cinnamon

Cinnamon from Sri Lanka was once prized over gold? So prized was cinnamon in ancient Egypt that it was used to embalm mummies, and traders circulated tales of giant birds collecting the bark to build nests on inaccessible cliffs - a myth crafted to keep competitors from discovering its true source.