About Sri Lanka

Srilankan Guide is an independent travel website run from Colombo, Sri Lanka. It started as a simple problem: friends kept asking the same questions about where to go on the island and in what order, and the answers were scattered across forums, out of date, or written by people who had never been. We built the guide we kept wishing existed - a single catalogue of 287 destinations with the practical detail that actually shapes a trip: when to go, what it costs, what sits nearby, and what to know before you arrive.

How our content is made

Destination pages are researched and written in-house, then checked against official sources, published visitor information and current local reporting before they go live. Prices and opening details change quickly in Sri Lanka, so we treat every budget figure as an estimate and review pages as things change on the ground. Every travel guide shows the date it was published and the date it was last revised, and when we get something wrong we say so on the page.

Where we use AI, we say so. Some of our guides are drafted with the help of AI writing tools; every one is then checked against official sources and current reporting, and edited by us before it is published. The trip planner uses a large language model to assemble your day-by-day itinerary from the destinations and preferences you give it. Those itineraries are a starting point, not a booking - always confirm transport, opening hours and entry fees before you rely on them.

Photography and sources

Almost all of the photography on this site comes from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences, and every photographer is credited by name on our image credits page. We don't publish images we don't have the right to use.

How we make money

Browsing the site is free and always will be. We cover our costs two ways: advertising shown through Google AdSense, and a one-off $5 charge to unlock a full generated itinerary after the free preview. Advertisers have no say in what we write or which places we recommend, and no destination has ever paid to appear here.

Corrections and contact

If something here is wrong or has changed, we want to know - it's the fastest way this guide gets better. Email hi.srilankanguide@gmail.com or use the contact form, and we'll correct the page and note when we did.