Intro

A visit to Sri Lanka sometimes feels like a vacation at the circus. Cycling along the road at the famous Kandy perahera (parade), we have seen bare-chested men crack whips, boys on stilts juggle torches and crimson-robed elephants lumber along beside their mahouts. And the carnival atmosphere doesn't evaporate after the parade ends. Sri Lankans smile constantly - perhaps amused, perhaps joyous - at the spectacles that surround their daily lives: stilt fisherman reeling in mullet along the south coast; teenaged couples walking the walls of the 17th-century Dutch fort in Galle; kids searing their tongues with a fiery curry meal. Sri Lankans sweep you into their circus so persuasively that you're soon moving with the show, instead of watching it. So our aim with our bike trips in Sri Lanka is, not only to experience some great biking, but to provide the chance to be swept up in the circus, to let you become part of Sri Lanka and then Sri Lanka become a part of you forever.