Sri Lanka7.87° N · 80.77° E
Wildlife, birding, night herping, culture and heritage journeys across Sri Lanka, guided by naturalist Priyanwada Rathnayake.
Priyanwada Rathnayake
From forests to traditions, your journey awaits. Pick a theme, or combine several into one trip.
Elephants, leopards, and everything in between. Sri Lanka's wild, up close and unhurried.
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After dark, the forest belongs to another world. Scales, calls, and glowing eyes await.
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Every tree holds a secret. Slow down, listen closely, and let the island speak.
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Not a performance. Not a postcard. Real Sri Lankan life, lived alongside the people who call it home.
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Your family walked these ancient paths too. They just didn't know where to look. Priyanwada does.
Explore heritage tours
Your curiosity. Our wilderness. No two journeys are ever the same.
Design your own tour
Born into a family where archaeology was a way of life, Priyanwada grew up in the company of ancient civilisations. Her father worked alongside some of Sri Lanka's most distinguished archaeologists, among them Siran Deraniyagala, Roland Silva and Senake Bandaranayake. Through his journeys and his quiet reverence for the past, she found early what most people never do: a real sense of belonging to a land and its history.
She grew up among sacred sites, crumbling fortresses and landscapes that held more memory than any textbook. From the start, she learned to see Sri Lanka as a living story still being told, not a tourist destination.
Her curiosity carried her beyond ruins and rock inscriptions, into rainforests, lagoons, national parks and the ancient ecosystems that have lived alongside the island's civilisations for millennia.
Today she brings a rare perspective to every journey, one that bridges ancient heritage and living nature, history and ecology, the human story and the wild one.
Read the full story“Sri Lanka is not just an island. It is a living museum of nature, of people, of time.”
Priyanwada Rathnayake
People, crafts and creatures met along the way. Read all field notes.
The Vedda are among the oldest indigenous communities in Asia, living in Sri Lanka's forests for thousands of years and passing their knowledge down by word of mouth rather than in writing.
Clad in traditional attire and often carrying a ceremonial axe, they still practise ancestral skills like archery and harvesting honey from wild hives, skills that have sustained the community for millennia.
A cinnamon farmer practising the traditional art of peeling Ceylon cinnamon, seated outside her home.
With specialised tools she scrapes away the outer bark and lifts the fragrant inner bark from each twig, a meticulous craft passed down through generations.
Tell Priyanwada what you hope to see, how long you have, and who's travelling. She'll shape a route around it.
