A UNESCO World Heritage Site layered with Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial history, its 17th-century ramparts still standing above the Indian Ocean on three sides. Inside the walls, coral-stone streets have quietly filled with boutique hotels, independent galleries and some of the south coast’s best restaurants, all without disturbing the fort’s working, lived-in feel. A slow rampart walk at golden hour, taking in the lighthouse and the old Dutch Reformed Church, is the single most photographed moment on the south coast. Every one of our nine tours passes through or near Galle and it earns that repetition on merit alone.