The Soul Sri Lanka Spice garden experience will immerse our guests through the rich history of Ceylon spices.

Sri Lanka has been an integral part of the global spice trade for many centuries. Sri Lanka is home to the worlds best Cinnamon (Ceylon Cinnamon) often referred to as True Cinnamon. Sri Lanka supplies about 80% of the world’s Cinnamon. Arab traders were responsible for taking most of the Sri Lankan spices including Cinnamon to Europe. Arab traders wove many colorful tales for their buyers about where and how they obtained the luxury spice Cinnamon. One such story, related by the 5th-century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus, said that enormous birds carried the cinnamon sticks to their nests perched high atop mountains that were insurmountable by any human. According to the story, people would leave large pieces of ox meat below these nests for the birds to collect. When the birds brought the meat into the nest, its weight would cause the nests to fall to the ground, allowing the cinnamon sticks stored within to be collected.

Beyond Cinnamon you get many other spices in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan pepper is deemed to have the highest percentage of piperine amongst most peppercorns. Most of Sri Lana’s cloves and nutmeg are harvested from the hill country.

The Soul Sri Lanka Spice garden experience will immerse our guests through the rich history of Ceylon spices. You will be able to see, smell and taste all the unique spices this island nation offers to the world.

Our partner spice gardens will give you the unique opportunity to see how spices are grown plucked and also provide you knowledge on processing. You will also get an opportunity to taste some of our unique spice blends and experience some mouthwatering local food prepared by villagers.

We only work with carefully chosen spice gardens to ensure that you get the real spice experience.