Our itinerary

Our Sri Lanka trip is going to be a tour around the island’s hotspots followed by four or five days of beachside chilling. Now who wouldn’t like that. This is the season to visit Sri Lanka, outside the monsoon time and with temperatures typically from 24C to 32C, depending on where and how high you are.

The map above can be interacted with and clicking the top lefthand icon of the map will reveal the names of each numbered destination. Here’s the breakdown of what we shall be doing:

1st January: We land in Colombo at Bandaranaike Airport and from there we are whisked to our first destination of Negombo to recover from our trip.

2nd January - visit early doors to Negombo’s fish market and then tour of Negombo city. After breakfast we drive to Habarana

2nd to 4th January - Hiriwadunna village trek, catamaran ride to local house for traditional cooking class - starting with visit to local market for fresh produce. Then drive to Kandy. Visit the Dambulla Cave and the Ayurvedic village

5th January - city tour of Kandy, then visit to the Temple of the Tooth followed by an evening cultural show

6th January - train journey from Kandy to Hatton then a little light tea-plucking in Nuwara Eliya

7th January - free day and the reward of an evening high tea for being brave

8th January - drive to Haputale visiting Devon Falls, St Clairs Falls followed by lunch at Grand Hotel

9th January - tuk-tuk to Lipton’s Seat and Badulla viewpoint. Jeep Safari to Yala National Park

10th January - drive to Ahungalla, visiting Galle Fort on the way. Staying at Shinagawa Beach

15th January - Shinagawa Beach -> Bandaranaike International Airport

Make sure you bookmark our blog page so that you can catch up with our adventures each day. Today (30th Dec) we have travelled from home to the Holiday Inn Heathrow Airport where we have parked up and settled in for a glass of wine and a good dinner before retiring for the night. Our plane leaves at 11:30 on the 31st and, in case you hadn’t already noticed, that’s my 75th birthday!

Gabrielle will pick up the next post about our journey to Colombo.