Sri Lanka: Jungles, Temples and Beaches

Join Wheel & Anchor for sixteen days across Sri Lanka, an island roughly the size of Nova Scotia holding eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites. We'll begin in Colombo, then head north to the old royal capitals of the Cultural Triangle, where a fig tree grown from a cutting planted in 288 BC still stands. We'll climb into the hills to Kandy and its tooth relic, walk the rows of a working Ceylon tea estate, and ride the mountain railway to Ella. From there we drop down to Yala for leopards, then follow the Sri Lankan beaches of the south coast west to the Dutch ramparts of Galle. Along the way we'll share a farmer's lunch of thirty curries beside the rice paddies and watch for elephants at dusk. It's an island small enough to cross in a fortnight, and layered enough to stay with you long after.