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Bespoke holidays in Sri Lanka

Here we specialise in tailormade tours. With our partners in Sri Lanka we are able to design any package our clients require, whether it is just birds, birds and wildlife, culture or beaches or even cricket. Tell us what you want and together we will design your holiday according to your wishes.

On the right are some example itineraries, a couple of which are costed to give you some idea of prices. Every trip is likely to be different so exact costs will be calculated at the time of inquiry. Rest assured you will get the best value for money in anything from budget tours to luxury holidays.

About Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated off the southern tip of India close to the equator. It had been connected to India for much of its geological past through episodes of lowered sea-level. Despite these land-bridge connections, faunal exchange between the rainforests found in southern India and Sri Lanka, have been minimal. This insularity is likely to have occurred due to the inability of rainforest organisms to disperse through intervening dry lowlands.These still remain dry, receiving only one major rainy season as opposed to the wetzone which receives two monsoons. As a result Sri Lankan wetzone species are believed to have got ‘trapped’ within it over time. Long insularity, copious amounts of rain and year-round warm temperatures can mean only one thing- a bewildering variety of endemic biodiversity! This explains why south western Sri Lanka and Western Ghats of southern India are jointly regarded as one of the 25 biodiversity hotspots. This is considering it has lost 70 % of its original habitats and yet still retains 0.7 % of the world’s known vascular plants and 1.3 % of the known vertebrate animals endemic to it. Sri Lanka is the western-most representative of Indo-Malayan Flora and its abundant birdlife shows many such affinities. 

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