We’re really delighted to announce that we launching an appeal to raise funds to build a new primary school for 60 kids at Moe Nyo in Burma. The appeal, aiming …

As travellers, we’re far from being newcomers to either Sri Lanka or Experience Travel. We were a nine-strong group of sixty-something old-handers, including ETG’s first ever and tsunami-stranded clients. So …

Congratulations to Sri Lanka for their  tremendous victory in the 20/20 World Cup! Beating India in the final must have felt so sweet for this cricket crazy country, forever living …

Planning the trip of a lifetime can be hard. Planning the trip of a lifetime for you AND your family? Phew! I need to sit down already. That’s what we …

Jaffna Music Festival – 2013 The Jaffna Music Festival (JMF) is one that is held every other year, alternating between Jaffna and Galle. This makes perfect sense as this northern …

In our ‘Travel Tales’ series, our Travel Consultants share their travel stories. Our Travel Consultants regularly travel to the destinations they specialise in. This is how each hotel, experience and …

When one of the ‘mystery guests’ (people sat next to me) complained on my recent flight to Bangkok that he did not have a window seat, his wife simply told …

Our Travel Consultants regularly travel to the destinations they specialise in. Here David Gookey, one of our Travel Consultants shares his foodie experiences in Thailand…

Great release today from the British Library of a series of pictures of Burma from 1897 released to their Flickr account. Burma has such a strong hold on the imagination …

One of our all time favourite dishes is Fish Amok from Cambodia. Our great friends at Song Saa, the super luxurious Cambodian beach resort have been kind enough to share …

We were over the moon to discover on Friday that we were runners up in the Telegraph Travel Awards 2013 in the ‘Favourite Specialist Tour Operator‘ category. There are so …

Vietnam has some of the most exciting and varied cuisine in Southeast Asia, with stand-out specialities such as shrimp spring rolls, sticky rice and pork belly rolls and the infamous …

I’d strongly encourage you to support this campaign by Tourism Concern, to stop tour operators and commercial volunteering organisations from sending volunteers to work in orphanages abroad. Tourism Concern launched a petition …

Inaugural Vietnam Supper Club November 2013 We held our inaugural Vietnam Supper Club on Friday 15th November at the Deli Boutique just down the road from our headquarters. We had …

Our close partners in Thailand, Asian Oasis have announced today that they will no longer include elephant riding in any of their programmes. As regular readers of our blog and …

Thanks to Stuart at Marmalade Productions for putting together this superb video of Sri Lanka using footage he took in his year long visit to Sri Lanka combined with footage from …

We were pleased to score a mention in a piece by Cate Langmuir which appeared in Pride Life Magazine. The article isn’t yet online, so we’ve uploaded the pages which …

There is a lot of buzz around at the moment about Passekudah on Sri Lanka’s East Coast – and it is certainly changing at a pace. While it’s a great place …

In our ‘Travel Tales’ series, our Travel Consultants share their travel stories. Our Travel Consultants regularly travel to the destinations they specialise in. This is how each hotel, experience and …

A temporary checkpoint on the land border between Thailand and Burma is to be converted into a permanent border crossing this week. The crossing connects Sing Khon in Thailand (accessible …

The judges, Marta Moreiras, Jordi Ruiz Cirera (Winner of The National Portrait Gallery Photography Portrait Award 2012) have spoken… and we have a winner! Drumroll….. One Mr Paul McCarthy for this effort: The …

Tom and I recently accompanied the travel writer Andrew Eames. He wrote a fantastic piece which you can read here. We think there is so much potential in the region so …

On 20 February 2013 – yet another cold, blustery winter’s evening – Experience Travel Group, in association with Sri Lankan Tourism, hosted a night of Sri Lankan delights at The …