A blue train crossing the Nine Arch Bridge above jungle

Slow Travel

Fewer places, longer stays. The island rewards it.

5 private journeys7 destinations on these routes

What slow travel covers

  • Train journeys
  • Long stays
  • Walking
  • Cycling routes

Every journey below is private and chauffeur-driven, so the itinerary bends around the experience rather than the other way round. If none of them is quite it, we'll build one that is.

In pictures

A traveller leaning from a train door as it passes tea-covered hills
Goyambokka beach near Tangalle
Wild ponies grazing on Delft island
A baobab tree on Mannar island
Travellers in a small boat beneath a mangrove canopy
Goyambokka, Tangalle · Delft Island, The North · Mannar, The NorthPhotographs: Satdeep Gill · CC BY 4.0; Shenal Sadurshan · CC BY-SA 4.0; Alexey Komarov · CC BY-SA 4.0

Begin the journey

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