Expressions Holidays arranges luxury, tailor-made holidays to Sri Lanka staying at our personally-selected range of beach hotels, country hotels, grand hotels, luxury hotels and boutique hotels and lodges throughout the country, from Colombo and nearby, to the beach resorts of the west and south coast, historic Galle, the cultural triangle, and to the hill and tea country inland.

The holidays to Sri Lanka are much more than just holidays but a real authentic and cultural experience to this fascinating country. We suggest a range of experiences, from spa treatments to walking, from bird-watching to staying in tented camps, from visiting temples to tea plantations. Expressions Holidays will tailor-make your holiday to Sri Lanka.

Roughly only half the size of England, yet packed with a whole continent’s worth of temples and ruins, wildlife reserves and luxury beach resorts, Sri Lanka is a beautiful, bite-sized slice of paradise offering a whole world of diverse escapes. Littered with elegant colonial hotels and enchanting boutique lodges, Sri Lanka also offers luxury at a relative snip. Young or old, family or couple, beach-bound or culture-vulture – whatever your holiday bent, Sri Lanka’s got the lot. Formerly an Arab trading port, the commercial capital Colombo is a bustling, colourful town, with a fabulous bazaar, colonial churches, craft markets and the magnificent Galle Face Hotel, the oldest hotel east of Suez and a venerable old memsahib staring out across the Indian Ocean. Forty minutes south of Colombo, Wadduwa is the start of a string of fabulous beaches running all the way down and around Sri Lanka’s southwest coast, with a collection of intimate, exquisite beach resorts reaching their figurative and geographical limit at Amanwella, a presposterously sensuous Aman spa resort on a perfect, palm-fringed, bone-white crescent of sand near Tangalle. Another elegant Aman resort, Amangalla, is one of our favourite hotels in the Indian Ocean, housed in the former Dutch governor’s mansion right within the ramparts of the ancient fort. Inviting as Sri Lanka’s coastline is, however, the island’s interior is worth the airfare alone, with forest parks sheltering leopards and wild Asian elephants, a verdant hill country carpeted in tea plantations with lovely boutique planter’s house hotels, and what no visitor to Sri Lanka should be allowed to miss, the Golden Triangle. Forming a small area between Kandy, Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa – three ancient capitals spanning 2,500 years of history – the Cultural Triangle boasts five UNESCO World Heritage Sites in an area no bigger than Kent. Kandy’s temple containing one of Buddha’s teeth is one of them, the 1st century cave monastery of Dambulla another, but the real showstopper is the Lion Rock at Sigirya, a vast toadstool of granite rising 600ft above the plains, whose ruined summit temple can be reached via a network of ladders and steps carved into the rocks by centuries of monks. An extraordinary gem in a land of superlative attractions, inhabited by some of the friendliest people on the planet.

About Expressions Holidays
Expressions Holidays is a specialist travel company, established in 1989, to provide tailor-made luxury holidays and authentic travel experiences to selected destinations worldwide.
Most of our chosen hotels and resorts are luxury but in a number of ways, from being of outstanding quality and character to having world-class facilities, service and activities.
We take the requirements and wishes of our clients and put together bespoke holidays and itineraries to suit their individual style and budget, utilising the favourable contract rates and negotiated offers with all our suppliers, from hotels to airlines, from local transport companies to local guides.
Our hallmarks are our personal service and knowledgeable and helpful staff who look forward to providing with the holiday you want.
We really urge you to speak to us by telephone – so much more direct and effective than email – and then one of our sales consultants can understand from the outset what you are looking for and provide the most accurate help as quickly as possible.