Day Tours
The whole island, one brilliant day at a time.
Sri Lanka is compact enough that some of its most extraordinary places are reachable as day experiences from the key coastal and cultural hubs – and diverse enough that no two of those days feel remotely similar. Our day tours are guided, private and designed to deliver the specific character of each place rather than a surface-level monument visit. Each tour departs with a professional guide and private transport, includes relevant entrance fees and returns you to your accommodation before the day is done.
Ella is the hill country destination that travelers most often cite as the place they stayed longer than planned. Perched...
Bentota sits at the junction of the Bentota River and the Indian Ocean, creating two completely different water environments within...
Horton Plains is a high-altitude plateau at nearly 2,000 metres – a rolling landscape of montane grassland, cloud forest patches...
Sri Lanka’s hill country tea landscape – the rolling green rows of tea bushes across the highlands of Nuwara Eliya,...
Between June and September each year, hundreds of Asian elephants converge on the drying shores of the Minneriya Reservoir –...
Wilpattu is Sri Lanka’s largest national park and arguably its most atmospheric – a vast wilderness of dry forest and...
Udawalawe National Park was established to protect the wildlife displaced by the construction of the Udawalawe Reservoir and has become...
The waters off Mirissa on Sri Lanka’s southern coast lie above a deep ocean trench that blue whales and sperm...
The Madu River in Sri Lanka’s southern wet zone flows through one of the most biologically distinctive river environments on...
Galle Fort is the most complete surviving example of a European colonial fortified town anywhere in South or Southeast Asia...
Polonnaruwa was the second great capital of medieval Sri Lanka – a planned royal city built around a vast artificial...
Anuradhapura was the first great capital of Sri Lanka and remains one of the most sacred Buddhist cities in the...
This full-day excursion to Sigiriya and Dambulla delivers two of Sri Lanka’s most famous cultural monuments in a single carefully...
Kandy is Sri Lanka’s last royal capital and the spiritual home of Theravada Buddhism on the island – a city...
Colombo is Sri Lanka’s commercial and creative capital – a city of colonial Dutch and British architecture, Buddhist and Hindu...