About us
Eleven people, one island, and a great deal of driving.
We are eleven people in an office off Marine Drive who have between us driven, climbed, sailed and eaten our way around this island more times than is sensible. We plan trips here, and we send Sri Lankans everywhere else.
How we started
It began as a favour that got out of hand.
In 2011 one of us was asked to sort out a fortnight for a friend of a friend flying in from Melbourne. That trip went well enough that they told someone, who told someone, and by the end of the following year there was a spreadsheet, a second driver and, eventually, a licence.
Fourteen years later the spreadsheet is gone and there are eleven of us, but the way it works hasn't changed. Every itinerary is written by a person who has been there, priced honestly, and revised as many times as it takes. We turn away work we don't think will be any good.
Somewhere along the way people started asking us to send them the other way — Bali, Bangkok, Tokyo in blossom season. So we do that too, out of the same office, with the same rules.
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Planning trips from Colombo
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How we work
Four things we don't bend on.
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We'll tell you when you're wrong
Four days is not enough for the Cultural Triangle. Yala in late September is a coin toss. If your plan won't work we say so before you pay, not in the debrief afterwards.
02
Private, never pooled
Your own vehicle and your own guide. We have never once put two sets of strangers in a minibus together and we are not going to start.
03
The guide is the trip
Our drivers have been with us an average of six years. They are paid a salary, not commission, so nobody is steering you into a gem shop.
04
One number, always answered
Somebody in Colombo is awake and reachable for the whole of your trip. Not a call centre — the person who wrote your itinerary.
Licensed & registered
SLTDA Registration No. TA/1284 · Registered with the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority, and members of the Sri Lanka Association of Inbound Tour Operators.