Sri Lanka & Maldives Honeymoon

Arrive at Bandaranaike International, about an hour by road or 40 minutes by expressway and transfer privately to your base. Time today to walk Galle Face Green at dusk with the street food carts.

• Private transfer via Bandaranaike International
• Walk Galle Face Green at dusk with the street food carts
• Time to settle in before dinner

The Dutch and British buildings of the Fort, the market lanes of Pettah, the Gangaramaya temple and the red-and-white striped Jami Ul-Alfar mosque.

• Fort and Pettah walking tour
• Gangaramaya Temple
• Galle Face Green at sunset

A Sri Lankan food walk through hoppers, kottu and short eats, the Geoffrey Bawa house, and the national museum's collections.

• Street food walk
• Geoffrey Bawa's Number 11 (booked ahead)
• National Museum

Climb into the hill country by road or on the Colombo-Kandy railway. On arrival, walk around the lake to the temple as the evening drumming starts.

• Climb into the hill country by road or on the Colombo-Kandy railway
• Walk around the lake to the temple as the evening drumming starts
• Timings reconfirmed locally the day before

The Sri Dalada Maligawa, which holds a relic of the Buddha, timed for one of the three daily puja ceremonies, plus the lake and a Kandyan dance performance.

• Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic during puja
• Kandy lake walk
• Kandyan dance and fire-walking show

The Royal Botanical Gardens at Peradeniya, and a working tea estate and factory on the hills above the town.

• Peradeniya Royal Botanical Gardens
• Tea factory tour and tasting
• Spice garden visit

The Kandy to Ella or Nuwara Eliya railway, one of the most scenic rail journeys anywhere, through tea terraces and cloud forest. Reserved seats must be booked well ahead.

• Hill-country train leg
• Tea estate landscapes
• Nanu Oya or Ella arrival

Drive to Colombo airport, about three hours, fly to Malé in about an hour and a half, then take a speedboat to your island. On arrival, settle into your villa and swim off the house reef before dinner.

• Drive to Colombo airport, about three hours, fly to Malé in about an hour and a half, then take a speedboat to your island
• Settle into your villa and swim off the house reef before dinner
• Timings reconfirmed locally the day before

Snorkelling the house reef with a guide who can name what you are looking at, and the lagoon by paddleboard or kayak in the calm of the morning.

• Guided house reef snorkel
• Paddleboarding in the lagoon
• Sunset dolphin cruise

Boat dives or snorkel drops at the atoll's channel sites, where currents bring in reef sharks, eagle rays and turtles. Sites are chosen on the day by tide.

• Two-tank dive or guided snorkel trip
• Reef sharks and rays at channel sites
• Sandbank picnic stop

A final swim and a slow breakfast before the boat back to Malé. Private transfer to Velana International in good time for your onward flight.

• A final swim and a slow breakfast before the boat back to Malé
• Late check-out arranged where the hotel allows it
• Private departure transfer