My 82 year old mum, husband and I thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Sri Lanka with Off 2 Sri Lanka Tours. I found this tour company on Trip Advisor, then worked with Menaka from Off2SriLankaTours via email to developed a tailored itinerary 12 day focusing on our interests which were food experiences, architecture, colonial history, spices and fabulous accommodation. At Mum’s request, we made one jewellery store stop (a place our wonderful guide Hemantha described as a place his grandmother would go to buy), visited the fertile highlands where we took the iconic train trip from Ella, had a private tour of a tea factory, awoke to amazing views with passing clouds. Then we hit the coast where we swam in the balmy turquoise Indian Ocean, gazed at stilt fisherman over breakfast, ate at a seafood restaurant where you select live mudcrab and other seafood, released baby turtles (bucket list tick) visited the home and country estate of the acclaimed architect Geoffrey Bawa, had our head blown off at a roadside traditional Sri Lankan eatery (Hemantha did warn us the chilli was extremely HOT. HOT). Walked in the footsteps of Dutch spice traders Galle Fort, then one of Colombo - highly recommend this tour company if you’re wanting a private tailored tour.
Hemantha, our fabulous guide and driver offered amusing and insightful support and guidance throughout our trip, we had a relaxed but suitably stimulating trip supported by Menaka and Hemantha.