One day. A class becomes a team.

SLTDA guidance sets a minimum rafting age of 14, on all sections of the river. We hold to that for the Grade 2-3 Kelani run — no exceptions. Students under 14 are not excluded. They get a full programme: rainforest trekking, zip lining, supervised shallow water, team challenges.

The Kelani at Kitulgala is a grade 2-3 river — genuinely exciting, not extreme. It is Sri Lanka's standard introductory rafting run. Every student wears a helmet and a buoyancy aid. Every raft is guided. The whole group is briefed before anyone enters the water. Students move in fixed pods, with headcounts at every transition. We hold to 14+. If conditions on the day make the river unsuitable, we say so and switch to the land programme.

Yes, with the right activity. Every participant wears a buoyancy aid, and the briefing covers exactly what to do in the water. Confidence matters as much as ability — a frightened student has a bad day even in a safe situation. Tell us how many non-swimmers are in the group at the quoting stage. We plan pods, activities and supervision around it, including a genuinely good dry-land option for anyone who would rather not go in.

Sri Lanka has no single statutory ratio for school excursions. Most schools work to their own policy, or to international guidance — typically around one adult per ten students for a day trip, tighter for water activities. Our guides supervise the activities. Your staff supervise your students. Tell us your school's ratio when you enquire, and we size the pods and guide team around it.

Two to two and a half hours by road. A 6.30am departure buys a full day of activity and gets most Colombo schools back at the gate by about 7pm, same evening. No overnight stay to arrange or approve.

No — that is the point of these programmes. Most established adventure providers in this valley run multi-night residential trips. We built a single-day, day-return product instead, because the overnight component is the single biggest barrier to getting a Sri Lankan school trip approved and funded.

No. We have no residential base, and we do not run residential trips. An overnight programme brings night-duty supervision, rooming, evacuation and medical obligations we are not set up to carry for a school group. What we run instead is consecutive day programmes — two or three separate day trips, students home each evening. If your school specifically needs a residential, tell us anyway. We will give you a straight answer on whether we can help.

Yes, and this is increasingly how schools use us. Two or three full day trips run across a week, or spread across a term, with a designed progression — day one builds the crews, day two goes deeper into the water or the canyon, day three consolidates. Students travel home every evening. No overnight risk assessment, no rooming list, no night-duty rota. Tell us the year group and how many days you are considering, and we map the progression before quoting.

Yes, across consecutive days, not by cramming one. We cap a single day at 100 students, because that is where supervision, pod sizes and guide ratios stay right. A year group of 240 runs as three days of eighty — every student gets the same programme, not a diluted version. We tell you honestly how we would split your cohort before you commit to dates.

Up to 100 students in a single day. Larger groups run in rotation — one half on the river or in the canyon, the other half trekking or on challenge activities, then they swap after lunch. If your year group is bigger, we say so honestly and suggest splitting it across two dates rather than compromising supervision.

Send us your school's external-provider checklist. We answer it item by item, in writing, before you commit to a date. We tell you plainly what we can provide and what we cannot — not a vague reassurance that falls apart the moment your senior leadership team asks a specific question.

That is planned for, not improvised. Every student is told at the briefing exactly how to signal they want to stop. There is always an exit route, and somewhere comfortable to wait with staff. Nobody is talked into continuing. A student allowed to stop without fuss often asks to rejoin an hour later.

Yes, as standard. Send the numbers with your final headcount, and we confirm the catering plan in writing before the day. Flag allergies at the same time, so they are handled separately, not assumed to be covered by the vegetarian count.

Yes. We invoice the school, accept purchase orders and work by bank transfer. A teacher never has to settle a trip on a personal card and claim it back.

Work around the exam calendar, not the weather. The clear windows: mid-January to early February, late March before the New Year break, May and June for the local system, September to November once senior exams clear. Rain does not stop an adventure day — the wet-weather running order is agreed when we quote.