Book early with Experience Travel Group for the inside track on where and how to catch the big matches

With the schedule for England's November cricket tour of Sri Lanka now confirmed, bespoke holiday specialist Experience Travel Group has the inside track on where to stay and how best to catch the key matches.

England's tour schedule will include Test matches at Galle International Stadium from 6-10 November; Kandy from 14-18 November and the SSC in Colombo from 23-27 November. The three Tests will be preceded by five One-Day Internationals at Dambulla and Pallekele from 10 – 23 October, and a T20 match at Colombo's R Premdasa Stadium on 27 October.

England's hardcore 'Barmy Army' will of course be there in force, but the Sri Lankan tour is also ideal for more casual cricket fans keen to experience an England cricket tour for themselves. Sri Lanka's relatively small size, combined with its tremendous variety of culture, wildlife and scenery, and a plentiful supply of  beautiful hotels, makes it ideal for combining the cricket with a lovely varied holiday. With Experience Travel Group, curious travellers who book early can enjoy privileged access to the best hotel accommodation close to the match venues, and high quality chauffeur guides to ensure getting around is a doddle despite the quirks of Sri Lanka's occasionally outdated infrastructure.

Experience Travel Group has secured many of the best hotel rooms in Sri Lanka exclusively for its clients, and offers several tours which can be tailor-made around the cricket tour schedule. All include knowledgeable chauffeur guides and support from a local representative to ensure everything goes smoothly.

Whilst the R Premdasa Stadium is the largest in Sri Lanka, the real highlights of any cricket tour of Sri Lanka are a visit to the grounds at Galle or Kandy - without a doubt two of the prettiest and most picturesque in the world. Kandy's Pallekele International Cricket Stadium - aka the Muttiah Muralitharan ground - sits high in the central Sri Lankan hill country, a stately echo of old Ceylon. Tea clad hills are visible in the distance, and the ground is bordered by grass banks and gloriously green fields and forests. The Galle ground meanwhile has a 16th-century Dutch fort at one end and the Indian Ocean twinkling beyond the other. The charmingly ramshackle set-up includes a grass verge and plenty of surreptitious watching from the thick banks of the old fort.

Experience Travel Group (www.experiencetravelgroup.com; tel: 020 33557873) offers a week-long trip to Galle during England's cricket tour to Sri Lanka from £2,985 per person including flights, transfers, deluxe five-star accommodation at Le Grand Hotel, as well as 5 days at the cricket and ample opportunity to spot local games.

Experience Travel Group specialises in bespoke holidays for passionate travellers who don't believe in choosing between luxury and adventure. Experts in Sri Lanka, Maldives, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Borneo, Indonesia and India, Experience Travel Group tailor-makes trips that enrich their clients' travel experiences.

For more information about Experience Travel Group, please visit the website, or find out what the team has been up to recently by checking out their blog or Twitter page.

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Notes to Editors

About Experience Travel Group:

Founded in 2004 by Tom Armstrong and Sam Clark, Experience Travel Group has grown from featuring Sri Lanka to also specialise in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Malaysian Borneo, Burma (Myanmar), Maldives, the 17,000 islands of Indonesia and India. Tailor-made holiday experts for the travel curious, Experience Travel Group curates extra-ordinary adventures without sacrificing luxury, offering engaging personal service and in-depth destination expertise to create lifelong memories.

Experience Travel Group is a fully bonded ATOL agent (ATOL number 9324); a member of ABTA (membership number Y544X); and a member of AITO. The company's Sustainable Travel Policy is about continual improvement, monitoring and evaluation, and is available online at www.experiencetravelgroup.com/info/responsible-travel.

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