Kalpitiya
The northwest peninsula is Sri Lanka’s kitesurfing mecca and its best location for spinner dolphin super-pod encounters – enormous aggregations of hundreds and sometimes thousands of dolphins that surface within boat range regularly. The raw, undeveloped character of the Kalpitiya coastline – sand dunes, mangrove channels, fishing villages – adds a frontier quality that the […]
Kitulgala
Sri Lanka’s rafting capital and its most productive birdwatching lowland rainforest sit side by side on the Kelani River – Grade 2 and 3 white water through a jungle gorge that was famously used as the filming location for The Bridge on the River Kwai. This is the place for travellers who want a full-day […]
Knuckles Mountain Range
A UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of cloud forest ridges, traditional mountain villages, and trail systems offering genuinely excellent multi-day trekking through endemic wildlife habitat. The Knuckles is the Sri Lanka that most visitors don’t reach, and that’s precisely what makes it rewarding – remote, biologically rich, and full of the kind of wild highland character that […]
Horton Plains
A UNESCO-protected plateau at over 2,000 metres that feels nothing like the rest of Sri Lanka – a windswept landscape of open montane grassland and cloud forest that ends abruptly at World’s End, a sheer 900-metre cliff edge with a view that stretches to the southern coast on clear days. The key is getting there […]
Ella
The hill country’s most-loved village has earned that status genuinely – a small mountain community with excellent hiking trails, the spectacular Nine Arch Bridge nearby, the best cafe scene in the highlands, and a setting in the Ella Gap where the mountains open dramatically toward the southern plains. Little Adam’s Peak hike, the Ravana Falls […]