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Sri Lanka is a small island which makes it ideal and easy to travel around in. This is a complete guide to getting around Sri Lanka, with tips and tricks for the best ways to travel around the country All you need to know about hiring a car & driver, and how to buy train tickets in Sri Lanka.
Mark
on The Ultimate Guide To Getting Around Sri Lanka
Hello Maria, we are planning to visit Sri Lanka in January for 3 weeks do you know if the situation is improving regards getting petrol and food and would you...
Teresa
on Sri Lanka Itinerary – The Best Of Sri Lanka In Two Weeks
Hi Maria,
First, I would like to congratulate for your fab blog! My boyfriend and I fell in love with it. It is full of very useful tips! Thanks for your...
Kirsty Savin
on The Ultimate Guide To Getting Around Sri Lanka
Thanks Maria. Sadly given what is going on in the country we have decided against travelling there this year but look forward to going in the future sometime.
Thanks
Kirsty Savin
on The Ultimate Guide To Getting Around Sri Lanka
Hi Maria,
My hubby and I are considering a 2 week tour of Sri Lanka in September. We usually would self drive as we love the flexibility it gives us to...
Emma
on The Ultimate Guide To Getting Around Sri Lanka
So helpful! Really appreciate you taking the time to reply. Looks like we'll do SL. Enjoy your trip! X
Bentota is the perfect picture of what almost everyone come to Sri Lanka for, the three S`s – Sun, Sea & Sand. It has one of the most beautiful beaches in the whole of Sri Lanka, and it` s surprisingly uncrowded.
Nuwara Eliya, the tea capital of Sri Lanka located high up in the hill country, has an English country village feel to it with its colonial style houses and tea plantations.
Our recommended detailed day-by-day itinerary of how to get the most out of your Sri Lanka trip. These 11 places are the best of Sri Lanka, and a must-visit in our opinion.
After spending weeks along the coast of Sri Lanka, enjoying some of the best beaches the country has to offer, we decided to escape the heat and head inland up to the mountains of Sri Lanka, to the Hill Country. We choose to go to Ella, a lovely sleepy hill town!
Ella is a peaceful small village in the middle of a beautiful green countryside, with spectacular views! It is nestled in a valley, surrounded by high mountains, some of them higher than 2000 m.
We had a flight back to Bangkok really late in the evening (actually after midnight), so we decided to spend our last day in Sri Lanka in Negombo. Negombo is a small beach town located near Bandaranaike International Airport. It is full of decent hotels and restaurants, as well as an OK beach (though a bit polluted). If you are looking for a beach place close to the airport, then Negombo is the one!
After two days at Unawatuna Beach, we headed into the Jungle to check out Jungle Beach! And wow, what a beautiful and isolated little beach!
During our travels in Sri Lanka, we had heard so much about Kandy, everybody said we HAD to go to the beautiful city Kandy. So we eventually decided to check out this famous city Kandy on our way from Ella. We took the most beautiful train ride from Ella to Kandy, a highlight on our Sri Lankan trip.
I must admit we were a little bit disappointed of Kandy. Everybody kept telling us (including the Lonely Planet book) that Kandy was sooooo beautiful, and “Here`s a city that looks good even when it`s raining” (quote Lonely Planet). Here is our top 5 list of what to see in Kandy (if you still want to go there after reading this…).
From Kandy we went on a day trip with tuk-tuk to the Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka. The orphanage is government run, and was initially created to protect abandoned or orphaned elephants. Today it is one of Sri Lankas most popular attractions, both among tourists and locals. We came really close to elephants of all ages!
Our second hike in Ella was to Little Adam`s Peak, which we did without a guide. It is a fairly easy hike and very popular! At top of the 1141 m high mountain, the views were spectacular!
We had plans of staying at Serein Beach Hotel for only three days, but as soon as we stepped into the lovely lobby lounge/ restaurant at the hotel we knew that we wanted to stay longer. It is such a unique and nice hotel, with a great atmosphere located right on one of the most beautiful beaches in Sri Lanka!
Kalpitiya is a small town in the middle of nowhere, on the north west side of Sri Lanka. It sits on the finger of land that separates Dutch Bay from the Indian Ocean. After we had taken a beginner kite surfing course in Mui Ne, Vietnam, we wanted to take our kite surfing a bit further. We had heard that Kalpitiya was THE place to go kite surfing in Sri Lanka! So we headed up north to Kalpitiya for some more lessons. And we did not regret it, the place turned out to be perfect for beginners!
Sri Lanka is, among it`s many attractions, also home to some of the best preserved ancient ruins and temples in Asia. Perhaps the finest can be found at the ancient capital city of Polonnaruwa, situated almost in the middle of the country.
Not as well known or spectacular as the temples of Angkor in Cambodia, but much less visited and no less atmospheric. This is a place where you can easily imagine yourself being Indiana Jones in search of lost treasures, and where if you are lucky some wild elephants may even come wandering across your path while you explore these ancient temples…