Sri Lanka destinations

Where to go in Sri Lanka.

Ancient cities, tea country, wildlife and beaches. Read about each place, then let our Sri Lanka team build a private route around your dates.

Kandy

Set around a lake in the central hills, Kandy was the seat of Sri Lanka's last kingdom and is home to the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic.

Rising from the plains of the Cultural Triangle, Sigiriya is a fifth-century rock fortress and one of Sri Lanka's eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

High in the central mountains, Nuwara Eliya is surrounded by tea estates and still shows traces of its colonial hill-station past.

Ella is a small hill-country town with big views.

Yala National Park, on the dry south-east coast, is Sri Lanka's best-known wildlife park and one of the best places in Asia to look for leopards.

Galle Fort is a UNESCO World Heritage Site: a walled old town of Dutch-era streets, churches and villas on a headland above the Indian Ocean.

Mirissa is a relaxed south-coast beach town and Sri Lanka's best-known base for whale watching.

Bentota sits where a river meets the sea on Sri Lanka's west coast.