6D/5NSri Lanka Circuit
Sigiriya → Kandy → Ella → Galle Fort
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12–17 Dec 20265 seats left
Sri Lanka
Central & Southern Province, Sri Lanka
- Trips here
- 1 trip
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- ₹49,500 /person
- Next departure
- 12 Dec 2026
- Country
- Sri Lanka
Practical facts for Sri Lanka
Season, route in, and what an Indian passport needs at the border. Rules change — confirm the visa position close to your departure.
Best time to go
The island has two monsoons and they do not overlap. December to March is the season for the west and south coasts and the Cultural Triangle — this is when a standard circuit runs. May to September suits the east coast (Trincomalee, Arugam Bay) instead. The hill country is cool and often misty year-round; take a fleece for Nuwara Eliya whatever the month.
Getting there
Colombo (CMB) is non-stop from more Indian cities than anywhere else abroad except Dubai: about 1h15 from Chennai, 1h30 from Trichy and Madurai, 1h50 from Bengaluru and Kochi, 2h45 from Mumbai, 3h45 from Delhi. Colombo airport is about forty minutes north of the city and roughly four hours from Kandy on the expressway and hill road.
Good to know
ETA before travelVisa: Indian nationals need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), applied online before departure and usually approved within a day; it can also be issued on arrival at Colombo. Sri Lanka has run fee-waiver and free-visa schemes covering Indian nationals in recent years — check the current position when you book rather than assuming either way.
- Currency:
- Sri Lankan rupee (LKR) — not interchangeable with the Indian rupee. Cards are accepted in hotels and Colombo; carry cash for the hill country and park entries.
- Rough daily budget:
- ₹2,000–3,500 per person for meals and incidentals outside a package. National park jeep and entry fees are the main variable — budget separately for those.
1 trip in Sri Lanka
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- 6D/5N
What to know about Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka packs an improbable amount into 65,000 sq km. You can be on a beach in the morning, in cloud forest at 2,000 m by evening, and watching elephants in dry scrub the following afternoon, and none of those drives are longer than about five hours.
The Cultural Triangle holds the old capitals. Sigiriya — a granite plug rising some 180 m out of the plain, with a fifth-century royal citadel on top and frescoed maidens on the rock face halfway up — is the one everybody climbs; Polonnaruwa and Anuradhapura are the older, flatter, more archaeological ones. Kandy, the last independent Sinhalese capital, holds the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic and is where the hill country begins.
From Kandy the line climbs to Nuwara Eliya at about 1,900 m and on to Ella through tea estates first planted in the 1860s, and the Kandy–Ella train is one of the genuinely great rail journeys — six or seven hours, second-class reserved, windows open. South of that the country drops to the coast: Yala and Udawalawe for leopard and elephant, Galle's Dutch fort inside its ramparts, and the beaches from Mirissa round to Tangalle.
Photographs of Sri Lanka by their creators — photo credits.
Reviews from travellers in Sri Lanka
- IKVerified booking
Imtiaz Khan
A lot of road for six days
Sri Lanka is small on the map and slow on the ground. Day one is four hours from the airport and day five covers the hills to the coast. All of it is stated in the itinerary and the chauffeur-guide was superb, but go in knowing you will spend real time in a vehicle. Galle Fort on the last morning was the perfect wind-down.
Sri Lanka CircuitMarch 2026 - DRVerified booking
Divya Ramanathan
Six days, and it did not feel rushed
Sigiriya at seven in the morning with maybe thirty other people on the rock, and the same climb at eleven would have been unbearable. The Nanu Oya to Ella train in reserved seats with the doors open is genuinely as good as the photographs. Udawalawe rather than Yala was the right call — we had elephants to ourselves.
Sri Lanka CircuitFebruary 2026
