Choose from wildlife safaris, city tours, cultural discoveries, and thrilling adventures, as you plan your perfect day excursions in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka truly is a paradise for sightseers, wildlife enthusiasts and adventurers and it is staggering how much you can get done in a day tour, short break or excursion. There really is not a day to miss!
Choose from an exciting range of day tours from the pioneering day tour operator in Sri Lanka.
Kids, parents, grandparents, and the young at heart: there is something for everyone to do as a day trip, from any city in Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka day tours and excursions include: jungle trekking, diving & snorkelling, safaris, water based activities such as white water rafting and canoeing, hot-air ballooning and many more choices. Sri Lanka Day Tours has many and varied excursions, covering different expectations in budget, interest and group size. For some excursions, you may join a group and make some new friends while some can be arranged privately. There is so much to choose from!
Strategically nestled amidst three mountain ranges, Kandy was initially built in this location as a natural fortress against an attack. Kandy was not an easy target for the foreign invaders who could easily gain control of coastal areas without too much loss to their forces.
This cosmopolitan city is the bustling capital hub of Sri Lanka with gourmet restaurants, luxury hotels, an active nightlife and fantastic shopping possibilities. Much coveted as an important point of trade since ancient times, Colombo was a well positioned exchange center where traders from the Middle East traded ivory, precious stones, and spices like cinnamon, cardamom, pepper and cloves. 
Often referred to as 'Little Rome' the town of Negombo is a historically interesting place, which has been strongly influenced by the Catholic faith. Now an ever expanding town, Negombo is a hotspot for tourists and is famed for its lagoon and harvest of lobsters, crabs and prawns. Fish auctions regularly take place on the beach and its intricate network of canals merit exploring too. 
Galle was once the chief port of Sri Lanka. The Galle Fort is a vast garrison, spanning 90 acres, which was originally built by the Portuguese and later extended by the Dutch in 1663. Their influences are evident in the eclectic architecture all around including the famous Dutch Reformist Church. When the British took over the Fort, they too added their own influences.
Sigiriya holds the mantle for being the most outstanding architectural wonder in Sri Lanka. Named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sigiriya rises 700 feet over one of Asia's most well-preserved ancient landscaped gardens. This giant granite monolith is an unforgettable site.
Trincomalee- affectionately known as 'Trinco' has a natural harbor reported to be one of the world's best. The harbor is vast in size, stretching over an expanse of approximately 2,000 hectares. Situated in the north east of Sri Lanka, Trincomalee boasts some of the country’s finest beaches at Uppuveli and Nilaveli where sands are white and waters are as clear as glass.
Thrill seekers will delight in the coastal town of Bentota. Famed for its reputation as the water sports hub in southern Sri Lanka Bentata
Yala National Park lies on the southeast coast of Sri Lanka and spans a vast 97,878 hectares over the Southern and Uva Provinces. The vegetation in the park comprises predominantly of semi-arid thorny scrub, interspersed with pockets of fairly dense secondary forest. The Park is world renowned for the wide variety of its wildlife, most notably for the Sri Lankan Leopard. Yala is regarded as the best place in the world to film photograph leopards with as high a population as one leopard per square kilometer in block one. Its large population of Sri Lankan elephants and its fine and healthy coastline which is home to many pristine reefs are attractions too.
The city of Jaffna is a peninsula found on the Northern tip of the island. It has the most troubled history of the country, dating back to the Portuguese, Dutch and British occupations from the 16th to 18th century and in recent years, the base of the Tamil Liberation group who occupied the area during the civil war. The main attractions here are the Jaffna Fort and the Nagadeepa Hindu temple.
