From US$ 890 /person
Sigiriya, Kandy & Ella Hill Country Classic
Ceylon's Cultural Triangle, the tea estates around Nuwara Eliya and the mountain railway to Ella, in eight unhurried days.
View trip & itinerarySri Lanka packs a great deal into an island smaller than Ireland: the fifth-century citadel on Sigiriya rock and the painted caves of Dambulla in the dry north-central plains, the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, the British hill station of Nuwara Eliya at 1,868 metres among the tea estates, the mountain railway down to Ella, and in the south, Yala National Park, the colonial walls of Galle Fort and a coast of beaches and fishing harbours.
The distances are short but the roads are slow, and the island has two monsoons that reach different coasts at different times, so where you go depends on when. Our two tours split the country the way the weather and the roads do: one through the Cultural Triangle and the hills, one around the wildlife parks and the south coast. They join at Ella and Yala, three hours apart, into a fortnight.
