17-Day Sri Lanka Trekking Tour with Wildlife, Heritage and Beaches

• In the morning, arrive at Bandaranaike International Airport or your hotel, meet your Sri Lanka guide, and travel to Sigiriya.
• In the evening, enjoy a national park safari. If you are lucky, you may see wild elephants, wild boars, crocodiles, and many other mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.
• After the safari, check in to your hotel in Sigiriya.

• Get ready for an exciting day! After breakfast, you will be picked up from your accommodation to climb the Sigiriya Rock Fortress. Sigiriya is a UNESCO World Heritage cultural site.

• Transfer to Knuckles. On the way, you can visit the Dambulla Cave Temple. This cave temple is one of the UNESCO World Heritage cultural sites. You can see five separate caves containing about 150 absolutely stunning Buddha statues and paintings, some of Sri Lanka's most important and evocative religious art.

• Also, visit the spice gardens.

• In the evening, check in at the Knuckles campsite.

• After breakfast, pick up and transfer to the Knuckles Mountain Range.
• On the way, enjoy a traditional authentic village lunch at Heeloya Village in the Knuckles foothills and walk through the village and its terrace rice fields. After this walk, visit a beautiful waterfall and swim freely.
• In the evening, drive by jeep to the Knuckles campsite and check in.
• At night, relax at the Knuckles campsite.

• Start this adventurous day with a delicious breakfast at the campsite.
• After breakfast, begin trekking in the Knuckles Mountain Range. Find Sri Lanka's endemic flora and fauna in these forests. Knuckles Conservation Forest was included on the UNESCO Natural World Heritage list as part of the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka.
• Walk through the cloud forest, visit waterfalls, go swimming, and visit tea plantations if you like. This trek is rewarded with clean water, lots of fun, and beautiful pictures to take. Enjoy your picnic lunch during the trek.
• Return to the campsite.

• After breakfast at the campsite, transfer to Mahiyangana. On the way, you can engage in waterfall trekking.
• Check in at the Sorabora Lake campsite.

• After breakfast, visit to see Bushman in Sri Lanka. Learn how to appreciate the simpler things in life. The lives of the locals are wonderfully intertwined with nature, and they have mastered the art of creating a life without creating chaos in nature.
• After this, transfer to Kandy.
• [Optional] In the evening, you can watch a cultural show featuring a blend of traditional Sri Lankan dances.
• [Optional] Finally, visit the golden-roofed Temple of the Sacred Tooth, which houses Sri Lanka's most important Buddhist relic - a tooth of the Buddha - in Kandy. Please do not miss offering fresh flowers to the Lord Buddha.
• Check in at your hotel in Kandy.

• After breakfast, transfer to Dalhousie. [Optional] On the way, you can experience white-water rafting on the picturesque Kelani River. The distance covered is around 5 km. The river and its surroundings will make you feel enchanted, creating a memorable experience during your white-water rafting tour in Kitulgala.
• [Optional] You can visit the Royal Botanical Garden in Peradeniya. It is the largest botanical garden in Sri Lanka. The gardens showcase all of Sri Lanka's flora and representative species from around the tropical world.
• Check in at your hotel in Dalhousie.

• Early in the morning, set out to climb Adam's Peak. The mountain is named after a point near the summit that is sacred to several faiths: it is a place of worship for Buddhists, who believe that the Buddha's footprint is located here; Hindus believe the footprint belongs to Shiva; Christians and Muslims believe that it is Adam's first step after being exiled from the Garden of Eden. You can also enjoy the fantastic sunrise.
• After breakfast at the hotel, transfer to Nuwara Eliya. It is blessed with a salubrious climate and breathtaking views of valleys, meadows, mountains, and greenery. Nuwara Eliya, also known as 'Little England', was the favourite hill station of the British, who tried to create the resort as a typical English village.

Overnight stay in Nuwara Eliya.

• Early in the morning, visit Horton Plains National Park. It consists of ecosystems such as montane evergreen forests, grasslands, marshy lands, and aquatic ecosystems. Because of its many endemic flora and fauna species, Horton Plains has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• Start trekking as the sun rises. During the trek, you can have your picnic breakfast.
• Hike Kirigalpoththa Mountain. This hike gives you a chance to climb Kirigalpoththa, the second-tallest mountain in Sri Lanka, starting from Horton Plains National Park. Feel the exhilaration of hiking up the hill along a single overgrown trail with several challenging hiking and mountaineering sections.
• Pass through scenic grass plains, cloud forests, bogs, and steep rocky surfaces. Discover the exceedingly beautiful nature and varied wildlife of Horton Plains and Kirigalpoththa.
• Transfer to Ohiya and check in at the village house.

• After breakfast at the village house, start trekking Devil's Staircase. The trail passes abandoned estates, beautiful rolling hills covered in green tea fields, bubbling streams, and at least one waterfall.
• Transfer to Ella and check in at your hotel there.

• Early in the morning after breakfast, you will be transferred to Sinharaja.
• In Ella, visit Little Adam's Peak, which got its name after its big brother, the holy mountain Adam's Peak, because of the similar shape.
• With an easy hike up Little Adam's Peak, gradually take in panoramic views.
• Next, visit the Nine Arch Bridge, also known as 'The Bridge in the Sky', an artificial masterpiece, and then Ravana Falls.

Overnight stay in Sinharaja.

• After breakfast, enjoy trekking in Sinharaja Rainforest, a World Heritage site and biodiversity hotspot, as well as a major eco-tourism destination in Sri Lanka.
• In the evening, return to the hotel.

• Reach your next destination, Weligama or Mirissa.
• After breakfast, transfer to Weligama or Mirissa.
• Relax at the beach for the day.
• Check in at the beach hotel in Mirissa.

• Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel.
• [Optional] You can join a morning whale-watching session on this day.
• Take an exciting yet comfortable boat trip out to sea and, if fortunate, see Blue Whales, the largest creatures on earth, as well as Bryde's Whales, Sperm Whales, Killer Whales, and Fin Whales. Meet pods of friendly dolphins such as Common dolphins, Bottlenose dolphins, Spinner dolphins, Risso's dolphins, and striped dolphins as they playfully somersault and dance on the ocean waves. There is also a good chance of seeing flying fish, turtles, manta rays, and even sharks.
• In the evening, return to the hotel.

• After breakfast, relax at the beach for the full day. You can also engage in beach sports and beach activities.
• In the evening, return to the hotel.

• Have breakfast at the hotel, then transfer to Negombo, famous for its gorgeous sandy beach as well as its old fishing industry. You can relax on the beach.

• Check in at the hotel in Negombo.

• After breakfast, our representative will pick you up and take you to the airport - approximately a 1.5-hour drive.

Relaxed, tanned by the sun, and filled with new experiences, you are ready to go back home. See you soon!