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Our aim is to provide:
- You with a personalized and authentic tour that give you the opportunity to spend time with local people, absorb yourself in their cultures, and visit their homes.
- Tours that support specific projects in Sri Lanka - homestays, conservation projects, community managed cooperatives - providing people with respect for their culture, and an income that helps support it.When you take a tour with us, 70% of your money stays in Sri Lanka – supporting the social/environmental work of our partners and the projects they support. Tour guides/drivers are local. We also use local hosts to provide personal insight into a specific area eg when trekking in forest we use local trekkers
The relationships we have with the people who travel with us are personal and are based on a mutual understanding of what we are aiming to achieve. We learn from your experiences and use these to improve future tours.
We minimise car travel, by structuring tours around one or two regions and taking optional day trips via local transport. As a result, you travel less, have greater flexibility, and more time to relax and absorb the local culture. Tour guides/drivers are local. We also use local hosts to provide personal insight into a specific area. For example, when trekking in forest we use local trekkers
The emphasis is on introducing you to the local culture and landscape - a stroll through a village and a cup of tea in one of the homes; helping to cook a dinner, or a train or boating expedition. We aim to benefit conservation and community projects that follow best practice.
For each tour, we aim to offer at least one opportunity to travel by public transport (e.g. bus or train), and at least one opportunity to travel using other alternatives to the car (e.g. three-wheelers, bicycle, horse, boat, or bullock cart).
Accommodation is selected to be small-scale, fit the character of the local area and owned by local people. Where possible, food is sourced locally, and cooked on the premises. Organic food is an added bonus. We offer at least one opportunity (preferably several) for you to visit and eat at the homes of local people
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
