Cultural Triangle
Sigiriya
Sigiriya is a 5th-century rock fortress that rises 200 meters from the surrounding plains. This ancient wonder…
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Hill Country
Ella
Ella is a misty hill town cradled in the heart of Sri Lanka's tea country, where lush green plantations cascad…
Wildlife
Yala National Park
Yala National Park is one of the world's oldest and most bio-diverse wildlife sanctuaries, protecting Sri Lank…
Coastal Belt · South
Mirissa
Mirissa is a crescent bay on Sri Lanka's southern coast, famous for blue-whale watching during December throug…
Cultural Triangle
Kandy
Kandy, the last royal capital of Sri Lanka, is a living temple city where Buddhism remains the pulse of daily …
Coastal Belt · South
Galle Fort
Galle Fort is a 17th-century Dutch colonial fortress that stands as one of the best-preserved fortifications i…
Hill Country
Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya, perched at 1,868 meters above sea level, is Sri Lanka's highest city and the heart of the island…
Coastal Belt · East
Trincomalee
Trincomalee is an eastern-coast treasure that comes alive during the dry season when the monsoon moves elsewhe…
Cultural Triangle
Polonnaruwa
Polonnaruwa was Sri Lanka's medieval capital, and its ruins remain remarkably legible nine centuries later: ro…
Cultural Triangle
Dambulla
Dambulla's cave temple complex is the best-preserved in Sri Lanka — five sanctuaries cut into a granite outcro…
Cultural Triangle
Anuradhapura
Anuradhapura was the island's first great capital, a city that flourished for thirteen hundred years and remai…
Hill Country
Haputale
Haputale sits on a knife-edge ridge at the southern rim of the hill country, and on a clear morning the view r…
Hill Country
Adam's Peak
Adam's Peak — Sri Pada to Sri Lankans — is the island's holy mountain, a 2,243-metre pyramid bearing a footpri…
Hill Country
Horton Plains
Horton Plains is a high, silent plateau above two thousand metres — cloud forest and golden grassland roamed b…
Hill Country
Knuckles Range
The Knuckles Range — named for its resemblance to a closed fist — is the wildest corner of the hill country, a…
Wildlife
Udawalawe National Park
Udawalawe is the surest place in Asia to see wild elephants — the park's open grasslands around its great rese…
Wildlife
Wilpattu National Park
Wilpattu is Sri Lanka's largest and oldest national park, a wilderness of dense jungle strung with dozens of "…
Wildlife
Minneriya National Park
Each dry season, as water vanishes elsewhere, elephants converge on the receding shores of the ancient Minneri…
Wildlife
Sinharaja Rainforest
Sinharaja is the island's last great stretch of primary lowland rainforest, a UNESCO World Heritage wilderness…
Coastal Belt · South
Unawatuna
Unawatuna is the south coast's most famous crescent — a jungle-backed bay of golden sand and calm, swimmable w…
Coastal Belt · South
Tangalle
Tangalle is where the south coast empties out: kilometre after kilometre of wide, wild beach broken into rocky…
Coastal Belt · South
Hikkaduwa
Hikkaduwa was Sri Lanka's original beach town, and it still delivers the classic combination: a long golden st…
Coastal Belt · South
Bentota
Bentota occupies a rare piece of geography: a long spit of golden beach with the Indian Ocean on one side and …
Coastal Belt · South
Weligama
Weligama means "sandy village," and its huge, gently shelving bay is the best place in Sri Lanka to learn to s…
Coastal Belt · East
Arugam Bay
Arugam Bay is Sri Lanka's surf mecca — a fishing village on the dry southeast coast whose long right-hand poin…
Coastal Belt · East
Pasikuda
Pasikuda's claim is simple and true: one of the longest stretches of shallow, flat-calm sea anywhere — a bay w…
Coastal Belt · West
Negombo
Negombo is most travellers' first or last taste of Sri Lanka — ten minutes from the international airport, yet…
Coastal Belt · West
Kalpitiya
Kalpitiya is a ribbon of peninsula between a huge flat lagoon and the open Indian Ocean, and that geography ha…