Sinharaja Rainforest
Sinharaja is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in which 33% of tree species are found nowhere else on earth. One of Asia’s highest concentrations of endemic bird species – the Sri Lanka blue magpie, the Sri Lanka spurfowl, the green-billed coucal. Guided walks only, with specialist naturalists who transform what you see into what you […]
Horton Plains
At 2,100 metres, Horton Plains is the highest and flattest landscape in Sri Lanka. The 9-kilometre circuit walk passes through montane cloud forest to World’s End: a sheer escarpment where the plateau simply stops and the plains 900 metres below open out on a clear morning. Baker’s Falls on the return. The cloud condition is […]
Knuckles Mountain Range
The Knuckles are a separate highland ecosystem east of Kandy – cloud forest above 1,500 metres, endemic wildlife, river crossings and trails ranging from gentle village walks to full-day ridge routes. Almost none of Sri Lanka’s standard itineraries include the Knuckles, which is one of the best things about it. For travellers who want genuine […]
Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya was built by the British to feel like home and the result is genuinely strange in the best possible way: a Victorian post office, a racecourse, a hill club with a dress code and tea estates stretching across every visible hillside. The cold air, the colonial buildings and the estate landscape combine into […]
Ella
Ella works because several things coincide: a dramatic valley gap with a view 40 kilometres south, tea estates within walking distance of the village, the Nine Arch Bridge as one of Sri Lanka’s most photographed structures, and a genuinely good independent food and café culture that has developed around the traveller community. At the right […]