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Our trips feature a unique portfolio of local experiences curated by us. An owner-run company. Great bespoke service. Amazing experiences. www.ayuinthewild.com

Founded in 2012, Ayu in the Wild is Sri Lanka’s only luxury DMC that is owner-managed, women-led and a member of The Long Run, a global community of positive-impact travel leaders. Ayu in the Wild are specialists in organizing complete bespoke experiential tours and personally crafted immersive travel experiences in Sri Lanka. Our story was inspired by Rajindra and Chamintha Jayasinghe, a widely traveled husband and wife duo who are destination experts on Sri Lanka. For nearly two decades they balanced their careers in law and finance with their love of the outdoors and offbeat. Out of their incredible travels both here in Sri Lanka and across Africa, evolved our special brand of bespoke experiential holidays. A collection of experiential tours that are immersive. Our owners are the main ‘Private Travel Designers’ of the company and they travel each month to the remotest corners of Sri Lanka in search of unusual local experiences, luxury getaways and unique places to stay in Sri Lanka. Through their personal travels, they have connected with a wide network of local contacts that we now call ‘our team’. Crafting your holiday is about bringing together their expert destination advice on where to go and when, the best boutique villas, the most intimate eco lodges and whether to travel by jeep, foot, boat, rail or air. Our services include;
Tailor-making tours
Booking hotel accommodation
Arranging the best guides to host cultural excursions and unique local experiences
Organizing wildlife safaris with guides who give insights into animal behaviour
Booking local travel: Flights, Luxury railway journeys, Cycle tours, Cruises on yachts
Meet, greet and drop off at Airport
Arranging transport for your tour in cars, vans, SUVs, mini coaches or large coaches driven by Chauffeurs fluent in English who count years of experience in the tourism industry. When your holiday is designed by people who wake with the dawn and head out to look for journeys that our guests wouldn’t find by themselves, it can be so different to any other tailor-made tour of Sri Lanka. And that’s what makes us a Destination Management Company that can add a dash of ‘oomph’ to your holiday in Sri Lanka!

19/08/2026

Glimpses across time and space in Colombo Sri Lanka. This wonderful "Colombo Beyond the Well-Trodden Paths” is a look into so much more in the city that often goes unnoticed by first-time visitors.

Perfect for those who are curious about societal issues and economic challenges of an urban landscape.

Dive deeper in the company of a lifelong resident who also happens to be a development practitioner and a well known author. You’ll glean insights into a unique blend of culture, history and art taking you from a Gallery with a collection of the nation's art heritage, to the contrast of one of the most impoverished communities of the city, supporting a resident through your visit to build a life far removed from the manicured residential suburbs.

If this sounds like you, drop us a line.

17/08/2026

For those who love nature and biodiversity, did you know that Sri Lanka has the only ancient Gondwana forest. And it has the highest species endemism in all of South Asia.

The wildlife is incredible: including leopard, elephant, primates, crocodiles, bear, 34 endemic birds, over 400 bird species, a host of other species in several wildlife parks - and of course, the blue whale.

How all of this happened in an island of 65,610 sq. km. is because about 180 million years ago (MYA) – when the dinosaurs still dominated the earth, Sri Lanka was part of the southern supercontinent of Gondwana – a fusion of what is now South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Madagascar, the Seychelles, and the Indian subcontinent (including Sri Lanka). Around 20 million years ago, during the Miocene Epoch of the Cenozoic (Age of Mammals), the island initially separated from India due to a significant drop in sea levels. This break isolated many species in the island, and set in motion the evolution of endemic species unique to Sri Lanka.

One we throw in the famed Ceylon tea mountains and a plethora of scenic landscapes including rainforests, rice paddies, beaches and cloud forests which can be explored with our Naturalist Guides to trace the natural history of one of the world's biodiversity hotspots - you have an island that has flora and fauna found nowhere else on Earth.

If this is what you'd like to explore, drop us a line.

13/08/2026

A question I receive more than any other from first-time travel advisors to Sri Lanka, "How long does a journey actually need to be?"

Our honest answer is 10 nights is the minimum for a journey with depth. 12 to 14 nights is the sweet spot for a client who wants to cover the Cultural Triangle, the hill country, and the coast without feeling rushed. 7 nights is possible but it becomes a highlights reel rather than a journey, and for the clients we serve, highlights reels rarely satisfy.

For specific itinerary length advice for a specific client, please write to us. We will have a call to explain what we recommend.

11/08/2026

Sri Lanka, a world within one island.

Plan your curated private trip with Ayu in the Wild.

06/08/2026

Swipe through for a look at several properties featured in our Winter Sri Lanka itineraries.

Most trip requests we receive from our luxury travel advisors include client briefs that mention guests who love luxury but prefer stays with character and a sense of place over standard hotel design.

Sounds like you?

That’s an easy one for us. We know which properties to recommend based on design, but we also look closely at service, the people behind the property, and how well it connects to the most meaningful local experiences in that particular destination.

Because to curate a Sri Lanka trip that clients won’t find anywhere else, you need on-the-ground recommendations from someone who knows the island like the back of their hand.

Get in touch with us if you’re looking to partner with a locally owned, women-led luxury DMC in Sri Lanka that speaks your language and can help you design the kind of trips you want.

03/08/2026

Long before sustainability in tourism was bandied around, our tailor made trips across Sri Lanka sought to connect guests to the real texture of the island through experiences not found in guidebooks.

Who we are:
Since 2012, we sought to build a luxury travel company in Sri Lanka that would protect the places, cultures, and communities that shaped our life. Today, Ayu is 100% locally owned, women-led, and Sri Lanka’s only luxury DMC that is a member of The Long Run, a global community of positive-impact travel leaders.

Our model demonstrates that luxury tourism can directly benefit Sri Lanka’s communities, culture, and wild places.

What we do:
We curate bespoke luxury trips in Sri Lanka that support local experience hosts and community initiatives. Trips are led by our Naturalist-Guides, offering guests deeper insight into one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots.

Our trips feature a unique portfolio of local experiences, created and curated by us rather than hotel-led activities, giving guests access to authentic, community-based encounters that are unavailable elsewhere.

Ayu means ‘life’ in Sanskrit.

Each trip connects visitors to the bigger picture through life in all its forms in Sri Lanka - the life of the wild places we help protect, the lives of the communities we work with, and the life-changing experiences our guests take home.

This is luxury travel that is bespoke, authentic, and rooted in positive impact.

If this feels aligned with your own travel values, we’d love for you to give us a follow to see more of what we do and recommend in Sri Lanka.

23/07/2026

Sri Lanka for honeymooners who refuse to be ordinary. Not the candlelit beach dinner that every resort photographs. And definitely not the elephant back safari which we have long advocated against.

Instead: a private moment in a stupa rarely visited within a busy cultural site where they learn about Buddhism and receive a blessing that stays with them long after the trip ends.

A morning visit to a village so remote it has a name no clients have ever seen on a guidebook.

A couple's cooking lesson in a village home, ending with a meal eaten surrounded by a family who will remember you arrived as strangers and left as something closer.

For the 30–40 honeymooner who love the comfort of boutique hotels but wants the island to be deeper than just where they stay, we design that journey.

Let us know your interests and we'll design around them - not around a brand name of a well marketed hotel.

21/07/2026

Design, style, ambience, service levels - key elements we look for when recommending truly special places to stay in Sri Lanka. (Yes, we have actually visited ALL of them!)

One important thing to note if you’re considering working with us on your itinerary is that we’re not tied to any particular hotel brand. We simply spend a lot of time vetting accommodation options in Sri Lanka and carefully matching them based on where our guests need to be, their individual style and preferences, and how each stay works within the itinerary.

Sri Lanka offers some incredible properties designed with a sense of place and so its easy to go beyond the big names you might already be familiar with. And being locals, we love having the opportunity to match you with the right ones for YOU.

We’ve stayed in everything from the best of the best, to the utterly unique places far away from everything. And the result? Our guests love our mix of accommodation.

Curious about where we would send you? You’ll have to enquire to find out 😉

15/07/2026

Our trips across Sri Lanka feature a unique portfolio of local experiences, created and curated by us rather than hotel-led activities, giving guests access to authentic, community-based encounters that are unavailable elsewhere.

Ayu means ‘life’ in Sanskrit. Each trip connects visitors to the bigger picture through life in all its forms in Sri Lanka - the life of the wild places we help protect, the lives of the communities we work with, and the life-changing experiences our guests take home.

Talk to us if you love luxury travel that is bespoke, authentic, and rooted in positive impact.

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Tuesday	09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	09:00 - 17:00
Thursday	09:00 - 17:00
Friday	09:00 - 17:00

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+94772481100

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http://www.ayuinthewild.com/

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