Sri Lanka Vacation Tips

How to Get the Best from Your Holiday in Sri Lanka?

If you are planning to visit Sri Lanka for a holiday then these Sri Lanka vacation tips will certainly help you to get the best out of your holiday. Follow these four simple steps and plan your holiday.

Step 1

Identify what do you want do during your holiday in Sri Lanka from the below list

Sri Lanka has many things to offer for a memorable holiday. Go through the below list and mark what do you want to do during your vacation in Sri Lanka. Be realistic. Keep your budget and duration of the holiday in mind when doing this.

1. Visit the hill country. You can see beautiful waterfalls, breathtaking mountains and tea plantations, enjoy hiking and adventure sports such as white water rafting, mountain climbing. Or just relax in the mild weather and enjoy the scenic beauty of the mountains.

Hill country starts from famous Kandy city and stretches to areas such as Nuwera Eliya and Horton Plains.

2. Visit beautiful beaches. There are many white sandy beaches to enjoy in Sri Lanka. Beaches in the southern (Bentota, Galle, Mirissa), eastern (Trinco, Arugam Bay, Pasi Kuda) and Western (Negombo, Puttalam, Kalutara) are the most popular beach holiday destinations. You can enjoy water sports, diving, fishing and many other sports activities in these places.

You also can take a whale and Dolphin watching tour from Galle, Mirissa or Puttalam beaches.

3. Visit cultural triangle. Sri Lanka has well over 2500 years old written history. You can visit ancient cities such as Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Sigiriya and Dambulla. The ancient ruins, very old Buddhist temples and massive man made irrigation tanks are still available in these areas.

You can stay in a hotel by a lake, relax and enjoy the beauty of the nature in a very calm and quite environment.

4. Enjoy city and nightlife. Colombo has many exclusive world famous casinos and hotels to satisfy all your needs.

5. Walk through rain forests. There are a few rain forests to choose from including Sinharaja, which is named as a world heritage site by the UNESCO.

6. Relax in an Ayurvedic resort. Most of the hotels in Sri Lanka have Ayurveda spas. However, if you want to experience true ayurveda holiday, rejuvenate yourself in an eco friendly environment then there are special resorts to stay and relax.

7. Eco tourism – Do you want to relax in an eco friendly environment and enjoy the beauty of the nature?

8. Visit wildlife parks. Yala and Vilpattu wildlife parks are very famous for a wide variety of animals such as Elephants, Leopards, bear and Crocodiles. If you want to visit specialized parks such as wildlife park for Elephants (Wasgamuwa, Minneriya, Habarana) or birds (Boondala, Kumana)then this also available in Sri Lanka. Not only you can go for a wildlife safari you also can stay a nature resort near the park and enjoy the true beauty of wildlife in Sri Lanka.

Step 2

What type of activities do you want to do? Camping, hiking, fishing, cycling, ballooning etc. List them all

Step 3

Is there anything else you would like to do? List them all

Step 4

Contact a travel agent who can create your itinerary for a reasonable price

You can contact our recommended travel agent if you want (details below).

Now you have got a list of things to do during your vacation in Sri Lanka. The last step is to contact a specialized travel company who can put everything together and create a good holiday package for you for a very reasonable price. Perhaps you can purchase your air tickets separately. The most important thing is the itinerary while you are in Sri Lanka.

We have tied up with “Miraculous Sri Lanka” travel experts to provide best customized holiday packages for visitors of our website. They are experts in understanding your requirements and prepare a tailor-made holiday package to get the best from your holiday.

What you can do is fill the form below. Provide as much details as possible on what you want to do during your vacation in Sri Lanka. The details you have collected from the above exercise will help to do this. Enter all your requirements in the “Your enquiry” section and submit. Your details will directly go to Miraculous Sri Lanka and one of their travel experts will contact you with a customized vacation package or request more details to provide the best holiday deal for you.

Please note that all fields followed by an asterisk must be filled in.

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