Day Tours

A Day With Endless Memories

Day Tours

Our day tour packages are designed to enable you to spend a valuable day visiting some of the worthwhile attractions of a given destination on your cherished vacation. They are specially selected to enable you to use your time rationally and enjoy your stay in our country having fun & excitement.

Colombo

Can be organized from either Colombo or South Coast. Typically takes around 5 hours to complete the city tour.

Journey Highlights

Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya – Visit a Buddhist temple with immaculate medieval architecture, talk to a detached monk about spirituality & life.
Gangarama – Visit a temple with Buddhist art & sculpture in the heart of the busy capital Colombo. Ask & learn anything about carvings, culture, faith.
Manning Market – Visit a market built by the colonials enabling Colombo to be an urban hub for food over 200 years ago in the heart of the city.
Fort – See the Arab, Dutch & British architecture alongside contemporary buildings, exchange coins, stamps, currency. Experience & taste fine dining.
BMICH – A useful convention center to enable synergy to emerge in national & international meetings & conventions in modern Chinese architecture.
Independence Square – See the pillars of the success of non-violence over war winning independence for the Indian sub-continent from the colonials.
Galle Face Green – A true blue-green space of an esplanade to cool off from a tiring day’s work which gives breathing space for the dwellers of a growing city of buildings, vehicles, machinery, industrial mills & expanding commerce.
Galle Face Hotel – One of the oldest hotels serving to accommodate foreign guests from cruises, visiting businessmen & professionals from the old times.
Old Parliament Building – House of commons built by the British to resemble the acropolis of Athens in Greece, too small for a growing leadership.

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Kandy

Can be organized from either Colombo or South Coast. If its Colombo it would be best to leave at 7 am and if South Coast best to leave at 6 am.

Journey Highlights

Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage – Watch the baby elephants play in the river with the other Giants at a Shelter created to protect them from starvation.
Kandy City Tour – Stroll around the picturesque lake, hike to two viewpoints to take a scintillating view, buy your gifts, tea, handicrafts, silk, gems
Kandy Temple – Visit the sacred temple of the Buddha’s Tooth Relic to see how 2500 years passed strengthening the spiritual culture of the island.
Royal Botanical Gardens – See almost all of the Flora – plants, trees, vines & herbs of the planet growing side by side with the seasonal birds roaming around those.
Kandy Viewpoint – Take a breathtaking view of the lake, temple, forest reserve, settlements, neighboring mountains, townships & winding roads.
Matale Spice Gardens – See the planting, cultivation, growth, harvesting & preparation of spices for use in the kitchen, taste and ‘find’ the differences.
Free visit to a Gem shop / Wood carving and Batik, Tea & Spices shops.

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Sigiriya

Can be organized from either Colombo or South Coast. If its Colombo it would be best to leave at 5.30 am and if South Coast best to leave at 5 am.

Journey Highlights

Sigiriya Rock Fortress – Medieval paintings, royal palace, mirror walls, pre historic hydraulic system to pump water up to the top of the palace garden & an anomalous stone sculpture on one’s way back past the lion’s mouth.
Dambulla Cave Temple – See 3rd century murals, art, stone sculptures, carvings of Lord Buddha & other deities all preserved to exhibit in 5 caves.
Hiriwaduna Village Tour – Go back to the nature with ayurveda cookery, handmade pottery, firewood used in cookery & bull driven carts as is.
Spice Gardens – See how the spices are grown, cultivated, harvested, sorted, processed, and packed for sale to the markets, taste them to discern labels.

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Galle

Can be organized from either Colombo or South Coast. If its Colombo it would be best to leave at 8 am and if South Coast best to leave at 9 am.

Journey Highlights

Galle Dutch Fort – See the distinctions of ancient & medieval architecture as if one is in Rome strolling on the stone roads & compare with the modern.
Madhu River – Boat ride to be in the nature with chirping birds, watch them as one captures them into images, see the rain forest trees, vines, herbs, amphibians, reptiles and enjoy the tranquility back in the nature.
Turtle Hatchery – Watch the sea turtles tread up to nest on the shore and return on their slow trudge back to the gigantic ocean to the warm water.
Unawatuna Beach – Enjoy the appealing atmosphere of a deserted tranquil seaside of a bay to relax, kick back, and chill in the warm breeze & sea.
Weligama Stilt Fishermen – Be still in the now, in the presence of the silent witnesses of the source of fish, as they sit in their meditation & urge a catch.

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Nuwara Eliya

Can be organized from either Colombo or South Coast. If it is from Colombo, it is best to leave at 5.30 am and if South Coast best to leave at 5 am.

Journey Highlights

Tea Factory and Tea Plantation – See how tea including BOP is made to satisfy the tastes of auctioneers overseas, how nursery plants are planted.
Ramboda Water Falls – See a mesmerizing fall of cool water in between the misty rocky hills into a glistening pool, take a refreshing shower & ‘Capture’.
Gregory Lake – See the remarkably landscaped lake in between the tallest mountains of the land showing how much the British loved this countryside.
Victoria Park – See how the colonials landscaped the flower gardens to appear like a ‘Little England’ in this remote Island far away from home.
Seetha Amman Hindu Temple – Temple to mark the place where queen Sita was hidden by Ravana according to the legendary epic of ancient Ramayana.
Old Post Office – British architecture at its finest well placed to capture one’s heart and the camera snaps to house the communication hub to the world.

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Yala National Park

Can be organized from either Colombo or South Coast. If its Colombo it would be best to leave at 6.30 am and if South Coast best to leave at 7.30 am.

Journey Highlights

Yala National Park – Be prepared to capture the leopard on camera, over the monkeys, peacocks, bear, deer, iguana, lizards, fish, birds & forest.
Galle City Tour – Experience the slow-moving open market, the tranquil streets with make shift shops, traders in bullock carts, snake charmers etc.

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Kithulgala White Water Rafting

Can be organized from either Colombo or South Coast. If its Colombo it would be best to leave at 6.30 am and if South Coast best to leave at 6 am.

Journey Highlights

Kithulgala White Water Rafting – Raft, canoe or kayak through nine rapids under the rain forest canopy through the brooks to the Kelani river all pumped up, geared & equipped to raft all day in warm water & sunshine & trek back.

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Udawalawe National Park

Can be organized from either Colombo or South Coast. If its Colombo it would be best to leave at 7 am and if South Coast best to leave at 6.30 am.

Journey Highlights

Udawalawe National Park – High probability of spotting a leopard as this park less visited, so it is less touristic and quiet, there are plenty of reptiles.
Elephant Transit Home – See the gentle giants given shelter, protection & leaves away from the wilderness of Starvation in their own natural habitat.

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Anuradhapura & Wilpattu Wildlife National Park

Can be organized from either Colombo or South Coast. If its Colombo it would be best to leave at 5.30 am and if South Coast best to leave at 5 am.

Journey Highlights

Anuradhapura – Go beyond the eight distinct Buddhist temples to the stargate where the concentric circles will take one to wonder about the anomaly.
Wilpattu National Park – Wildlife park where approximately 140 leopards are still looking for the ‘invisible’ lions & tigers; monkeys, bear, deer & birds.

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Negombo

Can be organized from either Colombo or South Coast. If its Colombo it would be best to leave at 7 am and if South Coast best to leave at 6.30 am.

Journey Highlights

17th Century Dutch Fort: See the colonial architecture of the medieval period can be compared with Christian, Buddhist and Sri Lankan architecture.
Negombo Lagoon: Blue waters where the fish side-swim, dummy and escape the catching techniques to be free, as they swim in flocks, they all turn together simultaneously & spontaneously just how the birds do it in the air.
Fishermen Huts: Dwellings of make shift Cadjan huts for temporary sleeping prior to launching on to their risky & unpredictable expeditions of the catch.
Hamilton Canal: Waterway built to convey men & produce to markets in the good old days of the Dutch colonial period sans the predicted traffic jams.
St. Mary’s Church: Capture the sublime pacification of the Roman Catholic attitude towards life, spirituality & architecture at its finest.

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Sinharaja

Can be organized from either Colombo or South Coast. If its Colombo it would be best to leave at 7 am and if South Coast best to leave at 7.30 am.

Journey Highlights

Trekking in Sinharaja – 21km east to west & 7km north to south through dense forest which the wildlife avoids leaving alone trekkers & harmless creatures look for food, energy, exercise and to live their lives as if it’s real.

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Architect Geoffrey Bawa's works in Sri Lanka

Can be organized from either Colombo or South Coast. If its Colombo it would be best to leave at 7.30 am and if it is from South Coast best to leave at 8 am.

Journey Highlights

Parliament of Sri Lanka – the elegant architecture built on an atoll of a lake, better to use contemporary design for debates than to look like Greeks.
Paradise Road Gallery Café – spacious lighted atmosphere is created by Geoffrey Bawa to invite you to feel comfortable even for a visit and chill.
The Ratnasivaratnam House – elegant design enables one to feel the positive energy & ‘see’ what one looks at rather than to merely look but fail to ‘see’.
No. 11 Colombo Residence – Four colonial houses put together to create an energy of positive vibes to emanate in order to inspire the goodness in us all.
Steel Corporation Officers and Housing – Immaculate design to enable one to discern, relax & appreciate art & architecture in our culture and lifestyle.
Lunuganga (Salt River) – an attractive masterpiece of contemporary architecture creating value for the investment that Geoffrey Bawa made here.