Plan Your Sri Lanka Tour
Discover amazing places, explore experiences and build your own personalised private tour.
Every place on the map, from the ancient cities of the Cultural Triangle to the tea country, the national parks and the coast. Add any of them to your route and we’ll plan the driving between them.

A 5th-century palace built on a 200 m rock, with frescoes halfway up and water gardens at its base.

Five cave shrines filled with Buddha statues and painted ceilings, on a rock above the town.

The island’s first capital: giant dagobas, monastery ruins and the sacred Sri Maha Bodhi tree.

A royal city from the 11th century, best seen by bicycle. Known for the Gal Vihara rock carvings.

The last royal capital, set around a lake and home to the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic.

A cool hill town surrounded by tea estates, with factory visits and colonial-era bungalows.

A mountain village with easy hikes to Little Adam’s Peak and views of the Nine Arches Bridge.

A sacred summit climbed overnight by pilgrims and hikers to watch the sun rise. Season Dec–May.

National park with one of the highest leopard densities in the world. Jeep safaris at dawn and dusk.

Open grassland around a reservoir where herds of wild elephants are seen all year.

A 17th-century fort town with ramparts, lighthouse, cafés and boutique hotels inside the walls.

A west-coast beach town where green sea turtles feed in the shallows, with a coral reef close to shore and turtle hatcheries nearby.

A palm-lined bay on the south coast and the main base for blue whale watching from November to April.

A wide west-coast beach with river safaris, water sports and resort hotels.

A harbour town near Nilaveli beach and Pigeon Island, best visited from May to September.

A laid-back surf town on the east coast. The surf season runs from April to October.