Our story

About Thami and the team

A licensed, owner-led tour company. Every trip is planned privately and guided personally.

About us
Our story

One guide, now a licensed team

It began with one guide and a simple idea: show visitors the Sri Lanka he grew up in.

Ceylon Trails began with one guide and a simple idea: show visitors the Sri Lanka he grew up in. For years, Thami guided every trip himself, from first message to final farewell at the airport. Guests came back, and they sent their friends.

Today Ceylon Trails is a team of licensed guides approved by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority, speaking English, German, Dutch and French. The team is bigger; the standard has not changed.

15licensed guides on the team
4guide languages
7steps from first message to home again
Formal standards

What stays the same as we grow

SLTDA approved

The team is approved by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority.

Licensed guides

Every guide holds a tourist guide licence, shown to you before you travel.

Written plans

Your itinerary, inclusions and terms are agreed in writing.

A real reply

A member of the team answers you personally on WhatsApp.

The Trail Bird

Why a bird?

In Sri Lanka, guides really do follow the birds. In Yala, an alarm call from the scrub often means a leopard is close. In Sinharaja, birders follow the calls of mixed flocks moving through the canopy.

Knowing what the birds are saying is local knowledge no visitor can bring with them. That is what the bird in our logo stands for: a guide who listens to the land and leads the way.

We follow the birds.

About us

Meet the guides

Guide profiles with names, languages and licences will be added here.

Guide profile

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ENDE

Guide profile

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ENNL

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ENFR

Photos, names, languages and licences will be added when Thami confirms them.

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Tell us about your trip

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