Wanderlust UK Top Guide- Bruno Dawson, Sri Lanka

My friend, Bruno, is up for Wanderlust UK's best guide in the world.

I met Bruno in 2005 when he was one of the guides on an Oxfam Australia bicycle trip around Sri Lanka led by Intrepid Travel.

Bruno is an excellent guide and goes above and beyond to help visitors to Sri Lanka experience the beauty and mystique of his homeland and to make a difference to the people there.  Not only is he kind and fun, energetic and knowledgeable, he also has a real commitment to share his good fortune with his local community.

When we met, Bruno told me about his work to provide sewing machines for the tea village's women to help diversity their income and also to build a school to give opportunities to the kids from his village and beyond. 

Since then, I have been back to visit Sri Lanka a number of times and Bruno has taken me to visit the tea village where he grew up and a number of other tea villages so that I could better understand the impact that my tea company is having on the people of Sri Lanka. 

I hope Top Guide helps him to achieve his goal of making life better for those in Sri Lanka's tea growing communities and creating more peace in this beautiful, ancient country.

You an vote for him today at topguide@wanderlust.co.uk- just put 'Bruno Dawson' in the subject line.