A still green lake below forested hills in Sri Lanka's hill country near Ella.

Tour packages

Explore Sri Lanka. Your days, your order.

  • 1 to 14 days
  • Private vehicle & driver-guide
  • Free itinerary consultation

Nine routes, shortest to longest

Showing all 9 private routes.

  • The rock fortress of Sigiriya rising out of flat green jungle in Sri Lanka's Cultural Triangle.

    1 Day

    Cultural Triangle

    Sigiriya Rock & the Dambulla Caves

    The two set pieces of the Cultural Triangle in one long, early day — the climb up the rock while the air is still cool, and five painted caves above the plain afterwards.

    • Sigiriya at opening time, before the heat and the queues
    • Dambulla cave temple — five caves, painted ceilings
    • Pidurangala as the gentler alternative to the stairs

  • The ramparts and white lighthouse of Galle Fort with the Indian Ocean beyond.

    1 Day

    South & West Coast

    Galle Fort & the South Coast

    A walled Dutch town you can walk end to end, a turtle hatchery, the stilt fishermen, and as much beach at the end of it as the light allows.

    • Galle Fort on foot — ramparts, lighthouse, back lanes
    • A turtle hatchery on the way down or back
    • Time left over to simply sit on a beach

  • A vast white stupa rising above the ruins of an ancient Sri Lankan capital.

    3 Days / 2 Nights

    Cultural Triangle

    The Cultural Triangle Short Escape

    Two thousand years of capitals in three days — Sigiriya, Dambulla, Polonnaruwa and an evening safari — based in one place so you unpack once.

    • One base, so no morning is spent packing
    • An evening safari for the elephant gathering
    • A village afternoon, with lunch over a clay hearth

  • A blue train curving through tea-covered hills on Sri Lanka's highland railway.

    4 Days / 3 Nights

    Kandy & Hill Country

    Hill Country & the Train to Ella

    Kandy, a tea estate, the blue train through the highlands and two slow days in Ella — the stretch of Sri Lanka people come back for.

    • The Temple of the Tooth, and an evening of Kandyan dance
    • A working tea factory, leaf to cup
    • The highland train, in a reserved seat

  • A Sri Lankan leopard resting in dappled shade, looking directly at the camera.

    5 Days / 4 Nights

    Yala, Udawalawe & the south

    Wildlife & the Southern Coast

    Two parks, two very different safaris, and then the south coast to come down off the early starts — whales, turtles and a walled town.

    • Yala at first light, where leopards are easiest to find
    • Udawalawe for elephants, reliably, in the open
    • Whales and dolphins out of Mirissa in season

  • Steep hillsides planted with tea under low cloud in Sri Lanka's hill country.

    7 Days / 6 Nights

    Triangle, Kandy, hills & south

    The Classic Sri Lankan Week

    The whole shape of the island in a week: the ancient capitals, an elephant safari, Kandy, the tea hills, the train, and three nights of coast at the end.

    • Sigiriya, Dambulla and Polonnaruwa without three one-night stops
    • Kandy, a tea estate, and the highland train to Ella
    • Beach days that are actually beach days

  • The Nine Arch Bridge spanning a green valley near Ella in Sri Lanka's hill country.

    10 Days / 9 Nights

    North-central, hills, parks & south

    Culture, Tea & Coast

    The classic route with the rush taken out: two nights in each region, Anuradhapura added, a village day, and four nights of coast you can use.

    • Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, not a choice between them
    • A tank-village day: paddy, bullock cart, dug-out canoe
    • Four coastal nights — whales, turtles, Galle and a beach

  • The shallow turquoise bay and empty pale sand at Pasikudah on Sri Lanka's east coast.

    12 Days / 11 Nights

    Triangle, east coast, hills & south

    The Island Loop, East Coast Included

    The route most itineraries leave out. Trincomalee, Pasikudah and Arugam Bay joined to the Cultural Triangle and the hills, in the months they are at their best.

    • Trincomalee, Koneswaram and the reef at Pigeon Island
    • Gal Oya, where elephants swim between the islands
    • Pasikudah and Arugam Bay, whether or not you surf

  • A wide Sri Lankan landscape of green hills and palms running down to the sea.

    14 Days / 13 Nights

    All six regions, including the North

    The Grand Island Odyssey

    Two weeks and the whole island — Jaffna and the North, the ancient capitals, the east coast, Kandy, the tea hills, the parks and the south.

    • Jaffna and the North — a culture of its own
    • All four ancient capitals, not a shortlist of two
    • Both coasts, beach days put on whichever is in season

How booking works

Three steps, and none of them are forms you fill in alone

  1. Choose your package & duration

    Pick the route closest to the trip you want, or simply tell us how many days you have. Nothing on this page is set in stone — it is a starting shape, and most of our trips end up somewhere slightly different.

    Nine routes, 1 to 14 days

  2. Customise it with our team

    Message us on WhatsApp or send the form. We will talk through what you want to see, what you would rather skip and how fast you like to travel, then come back with a day-by-day plan and a price for your dates, your group and the standard of hotel you want.

    The consultation is free

  3. Travel it with a local guide-driver

    Your own vehicle and one English-speaking local driver-guide, from the airport to the airport. If the plan needs to change while you are on it — a day in one place instead of two, a beach instead of a temple — say so and it changes.

    Tailor it as you travel

The itinerary consultation is free, and we confirm the full price with you on WhatsApp — including the park and heritage entrance fees — before anything is booked. We are reachable 24/7, wherever you are in the world.

Something else entirely

Six days? Nine? A route nobody else runs?

None of these nine have to be the trip. Tell us the days you have, the things you would hate to miss and the pace you want to travel at, and we will draw the route around them instead — the same private vehicle, the same driver-guide, an itinerary that is only yours.

The itinerary consultation is free

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