A 12-day women-only journey through Sri Lanka and the Maldives, created for solo female travellers who want cultural immersion, boutique stays, thoughtful adventure and enough unstructured time to actually enjoy where they are.

There are some destinations you visit for the photographs, and others that invite you to look beyond them. Sri Lanka is both.

It has the landscapes that immediately earn a place on your bucket list: ancient rock fortresses rising above the jungle, elephants moving through national parks, trains winding between misty tea-covered mountains and a southern coastline shaped by surf. But the reason we chose Sri Lanka for our newest Girls Trip Series journey goes much deeper than its Instagram highlights.

Sri Lanka gives us the opportunity to design the kind of trip we believe women are craving more of: thoughtful, immersive and beautifully paced. A journey where the places we stay are part of the experience, where local women are not simply mentioned in the story but help tell it, and where cultural connection is built into the itinerary rather than added as an afterthought.

And when the Sri Lankan road trip ends, we are taking a short flight to the Maldives for three blissful nights on an all-inclusive island. Not because we needed to add another country to the list, but because adventure feels even better when there is space to absorb it.

This is Sri Lanka and the Maldives, beyond the guidebook. And on Thursday, September 24, 2026, ten women will have the opportunity to join us.

After years of taking women across the world, I have become very deliberate about what comes with me. This is the full edit. Beauty that keeps your skin happy, plane essentials that make long-hauls survivable, and luggage that works for the kind of trips we actually take.