Cultural tour
By tuktuk with one of our guides to a tea factory, to see how the tea you drink each morning is actually made. Then a local waterfall for a dip in the natural pool, then the nearby village for local food and a Buddhist temple.
Knuckles Mountain Range · Sri Lanka
A new adventure every day
Every activity is organised and prepared on your behalf, so you can enjoy it without having to coordinate anything.
During your stay you can take part in a daily activity to explore Sri Lankan culture and get closer to nature.
All of our experiences are built around our local community: to meet them, to learn from them, and to create work in this small area so that they can work with us to give you a good time.
Every evening at dinner we offer two or three activities to choose from for the next day. If there is something specific you would like to do, tell us and we will try to make it happen while you are here.
Guided tours
Drink in the culture
We work closely with local guides. From start to finish everything is taken care of: your transport, your lunch and your guide.
Village tour
The same spirit on a smaller scale. Tuktuk to the village to explore, try Sri Lankan street food and shop the markets. There is a chance to try local crafts with the village blacksmith and potter, plus a waterfall and a temple.
Kandy tour
Kandy is both an administrative and a religious city, home to the Temple of the Tooth Relic, one of the most sacred places in the Buddhist world. Kandy Lake sits at its centre. The tour includes either the Tooth Temple or the Royal Botanical Gardens, not both.
Nature
Explore the Knuckles Mountains
Walks and treks designed to reconnect you with the landscape you are staying in.
Heeloya trek
With a state-licensed guide through Heeloya National Park. You walk through rice paddies, tea plantations and pine forest, past villagers' homes, while the guide explains the herbs and spices that end up in your dinner. Lunch is at a waterfall, with a swim if you want one.
Waterfall tour
By tuktuk through the tea plantations to five waterfalls, with a short walk to each and a swim if you fancy it. A picnic is provided, plus a stop at a local tea shop for hot tea and short eats. Along the way you meet the tea-picking crews, who pick twenty kilos of leaves a day.
Get creative
Develop a new skill to take home
A retreat is a good moment to try something new, or to go deeper into something you already love.
Mandala painting
We built a quiet art room that you can use at any time during your stay. Mandala painting is an old art form that works as a form of meditation, and we are lucky to have a fine art teacher to guide you. Take your wooden disc home, or leave it hanging in reception with the others.
Cooking class
A tuktuk ride and a short walk into the rice paddies, where a local cook and her family have rebuilt two authentic paddy houses from mud and wood. You harvest most of what you cook, jackfruit, green leaves, coconut, then make your own lunch in an outdoor kitchen looking out over the paddy fields, and eat it sitting cross-legged.
Yoga immersion
A deeper look at the eight limbs of yoga: how the practice is part of a way of living, and how that carries on once you go home. The teacher answers whatever you want to ask.
