Sri Lanka Attractions

Kandy

A restored tea factory at Hantana telling the story of Ceylon tea, with vintage machinery and a top-floor tea room.

🎟 LKR 1000 (foreign)

Peradeniya

One of Asia's grandest botanical gardens, spread over 60 hectares in a loop of the Mahaweli River.

🎟 LKR 3000 (foreign)

Kandy

A historic forest sanctuary on the ridge behind the Temple of the Tooth, laced with shady walking trails.

🎟 LKR 660 (foreign)

Elkaduwa

A windswept viewpoint on the western edge of the Knuckles Range, with sweeping views over montane grasslands and valleys.

🎟 Free

Nuwara Eliya

A famous roadside tea estate and factory with free guided tours and a cafe overlooking the tea gardens.

🎟 Free

Nuwara Eliya

One of Sri Lanka's grandest gardens, set against the Hakgala rock at high altitude and famous for its roses and orchids.

🎟 LKR 3540 (foreign)

Nuwara Eliya

A high-altitude plateau of montane grassland and cloud forest, home to the sheer cliff viewpoint known as World's End.

🎟 LKR 10000 (foreign)

Nuwara Eliya

A colonial-era reservoir at the edge of town, ringed by a park with boat rides, cycling paths and pony rides.

🎟 LKR 200 (foreign)

Ampara

The only national park in Sri Lanka offering boat safaris, famous for elephants swimming between islands on the vast Senanayake Samudra reservoir.

🎟 LKR 3000 (foreign)

Trincomalee

A cluster of seven square wells of naturally warm mineral water enclosed in a walled bathing complex west of town.

🎟 LKR 300 (foreign)

Giritale

A dry-zone national park around an ancient reservoir, famous for 'The Gathering', when hundreds of wild elephants converge on the drying lakebed.

🎟 LKR 4500 (foreign)

Puttalam

A Ramsar-listed wetland of ancient man-made tanks, mangroves and coastal lagoon south of Puttalam, alive with resident and migratory birds.

🎟 Free

Puttalam

Sri Lanka's largest national park, a wilderness of scrub jungle and natural lakes famous for leopards, sloth bears and quiet safaris.

🎟 LKR 4500 (foreign)

Jaffna

A natural mineral-water bathing spring beside the sea, believed to have healing powers, next to the ancient Naguleswaram temple.

🎟 Free

Ratnapura

A shapely 30 m waterfall near Kuruwita whose cascade narrows into the form of a sacred bo (fig) leaf.

🎟 LKR 300 (foreign)

Ratnapura

Sri Lanka's last major tract of primary lowland rainforest, a UNESCO World Heritage Site teeming with endemic birds, plants and wildlife.

🎟 LKR 2700 (foreign)

Tissamaharama

A coastal wetland and Ramsar site of lagoons and salt pans, one of Sri Lanka's finest birdwatching parks and a winter home for greater flamingos.

🎟 LKR 7500 (foreign)

Tissamaharama

Sri Lanka's most famous wildlife park, renowned for one of the world's highest leopard densities alongside elephants, sloth bears and abundant birdlife.

🎟 LKR 8500 (foreign)

Badulla

A powerful 63 m waterfall near Badulla, nicknamed the bridal-veil falls for the misty spray that cloaks its plunge.

🎟 LKR 200 (foreign)

Ella

An easy hilltop hike rewarded with panoramic views over Ella Gap, tea slopes and the surrounding hill country.

🎟 Free

Ella

An iconic curved stone railway viaduct set amid jungle and tea, famous for photos of the train crossing its nine arches.

🎟 Free

Ella

A wide, roaring cascade tumbling down the hillside on the road below Ella, tied to the legend of the demon king Ravana.

🎟 Free