The key to your bestSri Lankan experience.

Six to nine months is comfortable. Three is workable. Less than that and we will be honest about what is — and is not — possible to compose well in the time given.

We work with the rooms that suit the journey. Often that is a luxury hotel; sometimes it is a planter's bungalow held for one family, a private villa, or a small boutique whose name is not on any list. The selection is editorial, not a tier.

Yes. Your driver, guides, trackers, cooks and houses are kept for you alone. Group activities are never bundled in unless you ask for one specifically.

All of these and more. We routinely build trips around an ayurvedic week, around vegetarian or vegan kitchens, around a guest who needs a slower morning. Tell your envoy plainly — nothing is too small.

We adjust the morning of, not the night before. Most of our houses keep a quiet alternative — a private kitchen lunch, a guide brought to the verandah — for exactly this. We never charge for a plan changed by weather.

A modest deposit secures rooms and key people. The balance is settled four weeks before arrival. Refund terms vary by supplier and are spelled out in plain English in your itinerary, never buried in footnotes.

Never. We write occasionally — four to six letters a year for those who ask — and that is all. No newsletter follows by default.