In all you’ll end up visiting five UNESCO World Heritage sites while sampling sublime food along the way, be that munching on a picnic at Lipton’s Seat, or enjoying a farmer’s feast after a jeep safari in Udawalawe National Park, one of the country’s best places for spotting Asian elephants.
This took us into the hills past cascading waterfalls, lush tea plantations and rural villages to reach Bandarawela, a charming hill town in Sri Lanka’s central highlands known for its English colonial architecture.
Jules Verne has nearly 50 years’ experience of escorting travellers to the most exotic locations in the world, and I joined an itinerary in Sri Lanka that took in temples, jungles, wildlife and much more.
While the rock, built as a safe place and pleasure palace by King Kashyapa in 477 speaks to the many political upheavals Sri Lanka has endured, one constant has remained in Buddhism.
You will visit both of these with Jules Verne and it’s when you see the queues and the tour groups that you soon become very thankful that someone like your expert guide Bernard takes all the stress away.
