Private Day Tour: Exploring UNESCO Sites - Sigiriya and Dambulla Caves in Sri Lanka

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Negombo

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Visit two of Sri Lanka’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites, ‘Sigiriya and Dambulla caves’, in the company of a professionally trained, friendly chauffeur guide. All this, while traveling in a comfortable vehicle.

Duration: 14 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Golden Temple of Dambulla - Ascend to the renowned UNESCO World Heritage site in Sri Lanka known as the Dambulla Cave Temple and Golden Temple.
Sigiriya The Ancient Rock Fortress - After exploring the Dambulla Cave Temple, visit another UNESCO World Heritage site, the Sigiriya Lion’s Rock.
Enjoy a buffet lunch and return to your hotel.
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What's Included

Transport by private vehicle with fuel included
English speaking chauffeur guide
Entrance fee for Dambulla Cave temple (All inclusive only)
Water bottles provided
Entrance fee for Village tour (All inclusive only)
Buffet lunch included (All inclusive only)
Entry to Sigiriya lion’s rock and museum (All inclusive only)

What's Not Included

Any breakfast or dinner

Additional Information

Wheelchair and stroller accessible in the vehicle, cannot use when climbing

Location

Negombo

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

4.7

(26 Ratings)

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Royalg880

Oct 12, 2024

Best guide - Dimuth Sanjeewa was out tour guide I would like to take a moment to appreciate him a very good person he guided us the whole tour in the manner which was scheduled a very good person would recommend to anyone who’s coming to Sri Lanka Please visit this country a beautiful country

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Lisa_m

Oct 9, 2024

Excellent day trip - Excellent experience. Driver was helpful and informative and very flexible regarding our day. Would highly recommend this jam packed full day experience

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720iisam

Oct 7, 2024

Excellent day trip and transport - This was an excellent trip. We were collected by our driver (Dimuth) in a privare car. Our driver was helpful, informative and extremely flexible allowing us to spend time im the places we were most intereted in. We even had coffee and vomfort breaks. Sigarya is stunning and well worth the climb. We even had photos and videos taken by our driver who gave lots of factual information. Would highly recommend this trip

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Joanne_j

Jun 22, 2024

Fabulous day trip - Our driver very, Shammi was a very good driver and gave us useful information throughout our journey. It was the start of the full moon festival for Buddhists so was very busy but a beautiful cultural experience to witness. Sigirya rock was fantastic and very busy, we should have arrived earlier to be able to make it to the top maybe. The guide at there was very informative. The village tour was fabulous, the guide there made it very special by making a necklace, flower bouquet and and hat from water lilies whilst we were on the boat. The lady was excellent and showing us how some of the food was made. We had a plentiful and tasty lunch. My favourite was Dambulla rock temple, the statutes and paintings are so beautiful. Thank you to the tour company and all involved, we loved it

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Anonymous

May 7, 2024

Super recommended Siguriya day trip - Super recommended ! Right after booking, got an email from the local tour company and confirmed the pickup time etc. which was very convenient. Our guide of the day was Pashindu and he was so friendly and professional. Even there was another local guide at Sigiriya, Pashindu explained more about the site. We also went to Sigiriya village and took various kinds of transportation there, like cow carriage and boat, tuktuk. Tasted local foods as lunch and boat rider gave us hand crafted gift made by lotus flower. After that we went to some local shops like spice garden and gem museum. For the last spot, we visited the Dambulla cape temple which was very holy place. The whole day trip took almost 15hrs. We really had so great time and worth the money for 100% !! Super super recommended.

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Andrea_b

May 5, 2024

Absolutely excellent! - Really enjoyed the trip - our Guide (Dimuth) was very amazing, and clearly passionate about his job. I would definitely recommend this tour. When I was looking for a Sri Lanka in 1 day tour, I’d like to find one, like this.

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Sanjed2024

Jan 15, 2024

Excellent way to go a day trip to Sigiriya - Excellent day trip to Sigiriya. on our visit to srilanka booked few day trips from colombo and negombo, this person gave us a excekkent service. Sigiriya and dambulla are must visit paces in Srilanka, if any one go sigiriya from Negombo best waY GO WITH SANJEEWA

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Tiggytykes

Dec 27, 2023

Lots of places ticked off in one day - Great trip to sigiriya dambulla and village tour. Our driver was Pasindu who was very kind and helpful. Lots to see and do. Day was packed with sightseeing and a good way to pack in lots of sightseeing especially when time is short. If you go to Sri Lanka it is well worth getting one of these tours. Tip- take a white shirt to cover up if you visit the temples!

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Venture52944342715

Nov 3, 2024

beautiful sites, guide quality was ok. - We had Maheth (maybe this is misspelled) as our guide. He was a nice person and accommodating to our needs, but we felt that his level of expertise was not exactly what we hoped to have had. First, he was late for the pick up. He asked us to guide him within Negombo on the way our and on the way back into town, because his Google Map was not working (he was still speaking on the phone, using his phone during the trip, so I was not sure what was not working...). He did not provide us with an in-depth information about the sites we visited- just something on a surface level. All the sites visited were wonderful though. Depending on who you have as a guide on that day, I think the quality of experience could differ quite greatly. It could be a very much hit-and-miss.

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Julia_l

Feb 10, 2025

this tour is a scam - I'm not sure why this has such high reviews. The tour was not at all as described. I signed up for the all inclusive tour, for a solo traveler it was quite expensive so I was expecting a guide who was going to go into the sites with me and explain cultural significance and history. I did not receive a guided tour of any of the sites. My driver was very friendly but not too communicative. When we got to the rock fortress, I should have known something was wrong when my driver said "if anyone asks, tell them I'm your friend and not a guide because I don't have a license." He purchased the ticket, then told me he'd park the car in the carpark. I waited for like 20 min as I thought he'd lead me into the site, but turns out he was staying in the car and not going inside. The same thing happened for the rest of the sites. Very disappointing! Also, we never made a stop for lunch.

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