Day Tours
- 9 hrs
1 | Sigiriya Rock Fortress – Sunrise Heritage Climb
Most visitors only ever see Sigiriya from the inside. This day begins by looking at it. Sunrise is...
Sigiriya
- 9 hrs
2 | Yala National Park – Private Leopard & Wildlife Safari
Yala’s Block 1 covers roughly 141 square kilometres, yet field research here recorded leopard densities that rival the...
Yala
- 8 hrs
3 | Kandy Cultural Heritage – Temple, Gardens & Spice Atelier
The relic at the heart of Kandy reached Sri Lanka in the 4th century hidden in a princess’s...
Kandy
4 | Galle Fort Heritage Walk & Southern Coastal Drive
On this day the drive south is part of the story. At Ambalangoda, mask-carving families have shaped light...
Galle
- 6 hrs
5 | Sri Lankan Cooking Class – Market, Kitchen & Table
A Sri Lankan kitchen starts long before the stove. At the morning market your host shows you how...
- 6 hrs
6 | Doctor-led Ayurveda Consultation & Treatment Day
Sri Lanka keeps two healing traditions alive side by side – classical Ayurveda and the island’s own Deshiya...
- 6 to 7 hrs
7 | Knuckles Mountain Range – Guided Cloud Forest Trek
The British surveyors who named this range thought its folded peaks looked like the knuckles of a clenched...
Knuckles
- 3.5 hrs to 4 hrs
8 | Scenic Train Journey – Nanu Oya to Ella
This is the highest stretch of railway in Sri Lanka, and it climbs before it falls. From Nanu...
Nanu Oya
- 7 hrs from Ella
9 | Little Adam’s Peak, Nine Arch Bridge & Ella Village Trail
Ella’s best views come in a particular order, and the timing matters. Little Adam’s Peak comes first, before...
Ella
- 9 hrs
10 | Udawalawe Elephant Safari & Elephant Transit Home
Udawalawe exists because of a dam. When the Walawe river was impounded to create the reservoir, the national...
Udawalawe
- 8 hrs
11 | Polonnaruwa Ancient City – Heritage Cycling Tour
In the 12th century King Parakramabahu I is said to have decreed that not a drop of rain...
Polonnaruwa
- 7 hrs
12 | Sinharaja Rainforest – Guided Naturalist Walk
Sinharaja survived because people fought for it. Mechanised logging in the 1970s was halted after a public campaign,...
Sinharaja Rainforest
13 | Colombo Food Trail, Pettah Market & Design Quarter
Colombo rewards a day planned around appetite and architecture. The morning starts in Pettah, where the old bazaar...
Colombo
14 | Anuradhapura Sacred City – Heritage Cycling & Sri Maha Bodhi
For more than a thousand years Anuradhapura was the capital of Sri Lanka, and its scale still astonishes....
Anuradhapura
- 4 to 8 hrs
15 | Mirissa Whale Watching & South Coast Ocean Day
The blue whales off Mirissa are not just passing through. Research led by Sri Lankan marine biologist Dr...