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Travel like a Local
Travel like a Local
Day 01
Route : Airport > Negombo
Drive : 30 minutes
Hotel : Amagi Aria – Breakfast & dinner included
Highlights : Enjoy a city tour of Negombo
At the airport you will be greeted by your chauffeur guide who will take you to the fishing village of Negombo. Drive past the mini harbor of Negombo to get to the hotel. Enjoy your stay at the hotel overlooking the lagoon.
Day 02
Route : Negombo > Galle
Drive : 2.5 hours
Hotel : Fort Bliss Homestay – Breakfast & dinner included
Highlights : Galle Fort, Markets of Galle
Visit the fish markets of Negombo. Set off from coastal Negombo to experience another coastal town with a remarkable history. Explore the Galle fort in the afternoon. Galle is a jewel. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, this historic city is a delight to explore on foot, an endlessly exotic old trading port blessed with imposing Dutch-colonial buildings, ancient mosques and churches, grand mansions and museums. Wandering its rambling lanes you’ll pass stylish cafes, quirky boutiques and impeccably restored hotels owned by local and foreign artists, writers, photographers and designers.
Visit the fresh fruit and vegetable markets in Galle and sample some fruit!
Day 03 -04
Route : Galle > Yala
Drive : 3.5 hours
Hotel : Big Game Campsite – Breakfast & dinner included
Highlights : Stilt fishermen, Turtle hatchery, White virgin tea estate visit, Hummayana blowhole, Yala national park, Bundala national park
Day 03
Enjoy the coastal drive to Yala. En route spot the stilt fishermen if you are lucky. Also visit the small scale white virgin tea estate to see the unique process of making tea with a complimentary cuppa tea. Furthermore see a turtle hatchery and the Hummayana blowhole which is a natural and rare phenomenon.
Check into your campsite and have a dinner around the bonfire chatting with other campers!
Day 04
Set off for safaris in Yala national park or Bundala National park at your preference.
Yala is Sri Lanka’s most famous national park in Lanka. Forming a total area of scrub, light forest, grassy plains and brackish lagoons, it’s very rich in wildlife and you’re virtually certain to encounter elephants, crocodiles, buffaloes and monkeys. If lucky you might see the leopards and sloth bears as well!
Bundala National Park is a fantastic maze of waterways, lagoons and dunes that glitter like gold in the dying evening sun. This wonderland provides a home to thousands of colorful birds ranging from diminutive little bee-eaters to grotesque open-billed stalks.
Rest of the day at your campsite exchanging stories around the bonfire!
Day 05
Route : Yala > Ella
Drive : 3.5 hours
Hotel : Waterfalls Homestay – Breakfast & dinner included
Highlights : Diyaluma waterfalls, Buduruwegala
Today make your drive towards Beautiful Ella.
Enroute make a visit to the Buduruwagala Temple.
 The beautiful, 1000-year-old, rock-cut Buddha figures of Buduruwagala are the region’s biggest attraction. The gigantic standing Buddha here still bears traces of its original stone robe, and a long streak of orange suggests it was once brightly painted.Â
Then continue on this scenic drive until you meet Diyaluma Falls. The 171m-high Diyaluma Falls is Sri Lanka’s third-highest waterfall. Cascading down, the falls leap over a cliff face and plunge in one clear drop to a pool below. Check into your homestay afterwards and enjoy the view of yet another waterfall, Rawana!
Grab some delicious organic curd and honey en route for an authentic snack!
Day 06
Route : Ella
Drive :
Hotel : Waterfalls Homestay – Breakfast & dinner included
Highlights : Rawana waterfalls, Little Adams Peak, 9 Arc Bridge
Welcome to everyone’s favorite hill-country village, and the place to ease off the travel accelerator with a few leisurely days resting in your choice of some of the country’s best guesthouses. The views through Ella Gap are stunning.
Visit the beautiful Rawana waterfalls in the morning. Later trek the Little Adams peak to see the 9 Arc bridge and the sunset from above!
Grab some delicious ginger tea with jaggery en route for an authentic beverage!
Day 07
Route : Ella > Kandy
Drive : 5 hours train journey
Hotel : Kirinda Walauwwa – Breakfast & dinner included
Highlights : Train journey from Ella to Kandy
Enjoy the scenic train journey from Ella to Kandy admiring views of waterfalls, tea estates, villages, forests and mountains. Check into your homestay in the scenic hills of Kandy; time in a place close to nature located in a picturesque valley surrounded by mountains and lush green paddy fields.
Visit the market square and enjoy local fruits and beverages in season!
Day 8
Route : Kandy
Drive :
Hotel : Kirinda Wallawwa – Breakfast & dinner included
Highlights : Traditional Cooking demonstration, Kandy upper lake drive around the city, Temple of the tooth, Cultural show
Begin the day with an authentic cooking class over earthenware pots and wood stove and have lunch which you prepared. Then head to the town. Some days Kandy’s skies seem perpetually bruised, with stubborn mist clinging to the hills surrounding the city’s beautiful centrepiece lake. Delicate hill-country breezes impel the mist to gently part, revealing colourful houses amid Kandy’s improbable forested halo. The golden-roofed Temple of the Sacred Tooth houses Sri Lanka’s most important Buddhist relic – a tooth of the Buddha. With elaborate costumes, gyrating dance moves and show-stopping, fire-breathing stunts, a Kandyan cultural dance performance is one of the defining experiences of a stay in Kandy.
Offer an oil lamp and flowers to the temple joining the local devotees!
Day 9
Route : Kandy > Passikuda
Drive : 4.5 hours
Hotel : Jetwing Sunrise – Breakfast & dinner included
Highlights : Batticoloa lagoon & lighthouse
Transfer to the beautiful clear beaches of Passikuda via Batticoloa town.
En route visit the fort in Batticoloa. This once-mighty fort is now home to administrative offices, and though large sections of the structure are crumbling, it’s still an evocative sight. At the end of a sandbar, surrounded by lagoons and mangroves, this 28m-tall lighthouse dates from 1913. The sheltered coastline around here is popular. Rest of the day at leisure by the peaceful ocean swimming and sunbathing or playing a game of beach volleyball
Have a refreshing beli-flower tea cuppa to revive yourselves!
Day 10
Route : Passikuda
Drive :
Hotel : Jetwing Sunrise – Breakfast & dinner included
Highlights : Beach stay
Spend the day at leisure by the peaceful ocean today.
Kalkudah Beach is the kind of fantasy that makes you want to lounge forever under the palms!
