“Blend with nature”
10 Day Exciting Adventure Tour with Cycling, Water Rafting, Safari, Diving, and Surfing in Sri Lanka
Kithulgala Camping Site, Sri Lanka
Adventure Tour in Sri Lanka
Beginner difficulty
Instruction in English
Maximum 10 participants
Breakfast included
Airport transfer included
Join Sri Lankan Tour Hub in an amazing adventure camping tour that will have you travel across the river, waterfalls, tea plantations, train ride, safari, lakes, and beaches of Sri Lanka! Sri Lankan Tour Hub will guide you through this magical journey where you will have the perfect opportunity to escape from the daily mundane life. In this getaway, you will have the chance to spot Sri Lanka's adventure sites such as Kithulgala white water rafting, Aberdeen Waterfalls villa camp, cycling, tea plantation, amazing train ride to Ella, Udawalawa safari, Weligama surf camping, and beginner's diving tour while discovering the history, culture, beauty, and adventure of Sri Lanka.
Meet the instructors
Ranga
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Highlights
- 6 surf lessons and 1 beginners' discover diving
- 3 basic yoga classes
- Take part in Sri Lankan cookery class
- Enjoy cycling tour and safari
- Excursions, tours, and temple visits
- Airport pickup is provided
- 9 nights accommodation
- Free guiding and transport for the whole tour
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Styles
4 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Sinhalese, Spanish
Group size: Maximum of 10 participants
Airport transfer included:
Bandaranaike International Airport
Airport transfer included:
Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
12:00
Check-out Time:
11:00
Facilities
- Hot spring
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Bar
- Barbeque facilities
- Café
- Concierge desk
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Honesty bar
- Lobby
- Luggage room / storage
- Multilingual staff
- Picnic area
- Poolside bar
- Restaurant
- Special menu request
- Yoga deck
- Yoga shala
- Baby sitting
- Bicycle rental
- Board rental
- Car rental
- Conference room
- Currency exchange
- Dry cleaning
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Ironing / ironing board
- Laptop rental
- Laundry
- Medical assistance
- Meeting room
- Parking lot
- Tour assistance
- Wireless internet
You will be accommodated in various accommodations provided by Sri Lankan Tour Hub during this vacation. You have the option of staying in a private room in Kithulgala, a villa in Aberdeen Waterfalls, Shelley in Ella, a safari camp side villa, Weligama Bay in a villa or private room in The Rock Hostel as you wish.
Program
Day 1: Colombo Airport - Kithulgala Camping Site
Once you arrive at Colombo International Airport (CMB), Sri Lankan Tour Hub’s guides will pick you up from the airport. Then, you will directly be transferred to the Kithulgala village, Sri Lanka. The journey will take two hours and 41 minutes (83.5 kilometers) via B445 and Avissawella - Hatton - Nuwara Eliya Hwy/Ginigathhena Rd/A7.
On this day, the guides will show you the city and village around Kithulgala. You will check in and meet the team. There, you will enjoy local foods and Sri Lankan-style cocktails. Afterward, you can visit a village, or riverside, or take a rest as you wish.
Day 2: Kithulgala rafting - cycling tour - tea plantation - Aberdeen Waterfalls Villa
After breakfast, depart to the Belilena Cave accompanied by your cycling guide. Belilena is a well-known large cave in Sri Lanka, located 8 kilometers from the town of Kithulgala. Evidence of prehistoric human presence as early as 32,000 years ago was recorded at the site. After this excursion, you will continue the ride to Kithulgala until you arrive at the rafting campsite.
The team will arrange for you to enjoy an active adventure such as white water rafting and start with a quiet ride on a boat all accompanied by a specialized rafting guide. This ride will be one hour and transfer to the hotel for lunch and enjoy the charm of the place.
After lunchtime, you will travel to Aberdeen Waterfall for the next cycling event, and then you will move to watch other landscapes, and rivers as well. It's 40 minutes (18.6 kilometers) away from Kithulgala. After cycling and reaching the waterfall campsite, you can chill in the afternoon by swimming or boat riding under the waterfall natural pool.
This night, you go camping in front of Aberdeen Waterfalls' edge villa. You will have your BBQ dinner at night at the campsite. You can rest or listen to music at night as per your choice.
Day 3: Aberdeen Falls - Hatton Train Station - train ride to Ella
This day, the team prepared a nice experience. You will take your breakfast at Aberdeen Waterfall's cabana. You can also enjoy a boat ride or swim under the waterfall pool and you can stay there until 11 a.m.
After the waterfall camping, you will go to the Hatton Train Station, which is one hour ride by car. Your lunch will be arranged in Hatton city. The train will be at 2:20 p.m. This train ride will be finished at 6:30 p.m. in Ella.
Train tour to Ella is considered one of the most beautiful journeys in the world. During the journey, you can contemplate and enjoy its beautiful views which offer a palette of inexhaustible greens, waterfalls, cloud forest, exuberant flora, and the most tea-producing area. important in Sri Lanka.
On the train, you can drink tea, or coffee as you wish. After this train ride, you will be transferred to the hotel. Free time to relax or as you wish.
Day 4: Ella - Little Adam's peak - Nine arch bridge - Rawana Cave and Rawana Waterfall tour by cycling
After breakfast, depart to Little Adam's peak accompanied by your cycling guide. This is the most popular place in Sri Lanka, located 4 kilometers from the town of Ella.
After this excursion, you will continue the ride to Nine Arch Bridge, Ravana Waterfall, and Ravana Cave. You will have an amazing experience during this tour. The guide will recommend restaurants for your lunchtime and refreshment. Today, you'll be staying in Ella city. You can have your free time to take cycle visit around, meet new friends and chill your last night in Ella.
Day 5: Ella - handmade clay pot industry village - Udawalawa
Wake up to a freshly prepared breakfast of both Sri Lankan and western foods changing daily as you wish. This will be the day when you will see elephants and clay pot handmade industry which belongs to local families on the way to Udawalawa village. This ride will end at 1 p.m. and you will transfer to the hotel for lunch and enjoy the charm of the place!
In the afternoon, you will visit an elephant orphanage in Udawalawa village and you will also have a chance to see an evening sunset at Udawalawa Lake point. You will have your dinner at Udawalawa under the night fire at the hotel and come back to your accommodation to relax.
Day 6: Udawalawa Safari - Weligama Beach
You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods changing daily. You will have an adventure safari or professional wildlife guiding at the Udawalawa National Park. You can collect your basic camera equipment and start your adventure safari.
Here, you will have the opportunity to see a lot of leopards, wild elephants, water buffalo, alligators, bears, deer, and various kinds of birds. You will have a jungle camp experience by going on a safari with the wildlife guide and team (transport: 4x4 off-road Jeep).
Safari will end at 11 a.m. Go back to the hotel and you will have your lunch on your adventure campsites.
After lunch time, you will travel to Weligama Bay for the next surf camp. The journey will be two hours and 23 minutes (96.4 kilometers) via B275. You will have a chance to feel an evening sunset at the same point. You will have your dinner on the lakeside, then you will return to your accommodation, and relax.
Day 7: Weligama surf camp - 2 lessons and beginner yoga class
The beginners surfing lessons include
- Preparations on the beach including safety introduction
- Surfing supported by an instructor
- Time for break/s if needed
- Short wrap-up
Level 1 surfing lesson
Level 1 surfing lesson is designed for the complete beginner and for those who have tried surfing a few times but have not been able to catch a wave by themselves. You will learn surfing with the right techniques accompanied by friendly and experienced surfing instructors of The Surfer Weligama. One instructor will guide a maximum of two persons.
For first-timers, this shorter beginner's class is recommended, as surfing is a physically demanding sport and can be quite tiring!
Level 2 surfing lesson
Level 2 surfing lesson is designed for the surfers who can catch a wave in the white water but want to continue to progress their surfing and learn safety tips, tricks, how to go to the lineup, how to catch a green wave properly and turn so they can improve from a beginner surfing level to an intermediate one.
You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods changing daily. You will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at My Surf Camp Surf School on the beach for almost two hours so that you can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.
You will have your buffet for lunch. In your spare time, you may relax on the beach, snorkeling. The team has arranged another free surf lesson in the afternoon before 4 p.m. as well so you can go watch evening sunset locations on the beach and practice yoga with a yoga teacher until the sun goes down. In the evening, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.
Day 8: Surf camp - 2 lessons - yoga class - cookery class
Wake up to a freshly prepared breakfast of both Sri Lankan and western foods changing daily as you wish. This will be day two of your surfing session. Slap on the sunscreen, take your theory and practical lesson at the theater (the theory is every day and can be before or after the surf session), jump in a tuk-tuk, and head to the surf school for either a lesson or guided surf. The afternoon is yours for the taking.
You may explore Weligama, shop, relax at the beach, or grab a board and jump in for a free surf. They will have recommended optional adventures for you. In the afternoon, the team has arranged another free surf lesson before 4 p.m.
At the end of the day, head back to camp and enjoy your free yoga session at sunset. The team will host you at a hostel to show and teach you how to make Sri Lankan food by yourself such as rice and curry with coconut and coconut milk too. Enjoy your own dinner and end the day with some well-deserved beers as you wish.
Day 9: Surf camp - 2 lessons - yoga class
You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods changing daily. You will have a surfing lesson or professional surf guiding at My Surf Camp Surf School on the beach for almost two hours so that you can collect your basic surfboard and start your practice with the surf teacher.
You will have your buffet for lunch. In your spare time, you may relax on the beach or snorkel. The team has arranged another free surf lesson in the afternoon before 4 p.m. Later, you can go watch the sunset on the beach and do yoga with a yoga teacher till the sun goes down. In the evening, you will enjoy barbecue grilled dinner or Sri Lankan food and take a rest.
Day 10: Beginner's diving lessons - end of the holiday
You will begin your day by enjoying a breakfast buffet, a combination of Sri Lankan and western foods (changing daily). You will have a beginner diving lesson or professional dive guiding at a diving school near the beach for almost three hours. You can collect your basic equipment and start your practice with the diving teacher.
What will you do?
- 1 hour of video analysis education
- Practice in the swimming pool
- Shallow water dive practice
- Learn safety and how to use equipment
- Shallow water dive
- Open water diving
After morning's beginner discover diving, all the lessons are finished and hopefully, you will catch your own waves on your own surf spot, as well as diving. Check out is by 12:00 p.m. Grab some photos in My Surf Camp to show off to your friends. Make sure you’ve got everyone on Facebook and say goodbye to your surf camp family. They miss you already.
About the cycling
- Terrain: The roads will be carpeted, concreted, and village roads. Climate will be warm and wet. The terrain is mostly mountainous and rough
- Skill level: Moderate level required (Cyclist needs to have a good level of fitness, the terrain is mostly hilly or unpaved but they will ride on flat terrain sometime,10 to 20 kilometers per day)
- Cycling distance: Day 2 and 4 - 20 kilometers per day and day 5 - 10 kilometers
Included excursions
- Belilena historical cave cycling tour
- White water rafting
- Aberdeen Falls cycling tour
- Tea plantation education tour
- Train ride to Ella
- Little Adam's Peak
- Nine Arch Bridge
- Rawana Waterfall and cave
- Handmade clay pot village
- Udawalawa safari
- Udawalawa elephant orphanage and village
- Matara Temple
- Discover Bridge Rock Cave dive spot
Instructors
Ranga Shrimal
Ranga Shrimal is a host, the founder, and managing director of Lankan Tour Hub (Pvt) Ltd. He loves to meet friends from all around the world and make them his good friends for a lifetime. He was born in Negombo in 1988. He has always liked to surf and lives near the beach and nature. His home now is also located within the mountain range. There, he always finds peace through his meditation sessions. Ranga looks forward to welcoming you very much, and to talking and relaying the many things that he has learned in life, and at the same time learning too.
Location
Kithulgala Village
West of the road from Kandy to Nuwara Eliya, Kitulgala is a popular adventure-sports center located amid thickly forested hills. Most visitors are young and energetic from Colombo, but foreign visitors are also starting to discover the region's white-water rafting, jungle trekking, bird watching, and cave exploration.
The town’s other main claim to fame is that David Lean filmed his 1957 Oscar-winning epic "Bridge on the River Kwai" here on the banks of the Kelaniya River, though there's little physical evidence left to see.
A few kilometers from Kithulgala is a large cave system where the 28,500-year-old remains of early humans were discovered. Many hotels in the area can arrange a guide to the Belilena Caves.
Aberdeen Waterfall
The 98-meter-high waterfalls of Aberdeen in Nuwara Eliya District are formed by the Kehelgamuwa, a tributary of the Kelani River. Aberdeen Falls, definitely among the most picturesque waterfalls on the island, is named after the nearby tea plantation, Aberdeen. Many tea plantations in Sri Lanka bear British names, Scottish toponyms in particular.
According to a typical folk belief in Sri Lanka’s highlands, Aberdeen Falls are connected with the Lakshapana Falls further south by a 5-kilometer long tunnel. Both waterfalls carry less water since water reservoirs and hydroelectric power stations were established in the area of the Kelani River tributaries between Maskeliya and Kithulgala. However, except for extraordinarily dry periods, the Kehelgamuwa River at Aberdeen Falls does not dry out completely.
A small observation platform is constructed close to the natural pool below Aberdeen Falls, which is picturesquely framed by rock surfaces. Despite this visitors’ terrace, travelers are rarely seen at Aberdeen Falls. It’s still an off-the-beaten-path destination.
Train tour to Ella
The train trip from Ella to Kandy in Sri Lanka, or the other way around, is considered to be one of the most beautiful train trips in the world. This train ride is seven hours long and takes you through stunning landscapes of green and lush tea plantations and mountain views.
The train trip between Hatton and Ella is one of the highlights of Sri Lanka in the Sri Lankan Tour Hub team's opinion, and they love it. The train trip Ella – Hatton, and Hatton – Ella is very popular, both among tourists and the locals. Sri Lankan Tour Hub highly recommends the tour.
Ella village
Welcome to everyone’s favorite hill-country village, the place to ease off the travel accelerator with a few leisurely days resting in your choice of some of the country’s best guesthouses.
The views through Ella Gap are stunning, and on a clear night, you can even spy the subtle glow of the Great Basses lighthouse on Sri Lanka’s south coast.
Don’t be too laid-back though; definitely make time for easygoing walks through tea plantations to temples, waterfalls, and viewpoints. After building up a hiking-inspired appetite, look forward to Sri Lanka’s best home-cooked food and a reviving cuppa.
In recent years, Ella's popularity has soared and the town's attractiveness has been somewhat compromised by some multistory concrete eyesores.
Udawalawa National Park
Framed by soaring highlands on its northern boundary, the Udawalawa National Park is one of the world's best places to see wild elephants. Largely comprised of grasslands and bush forests, it's also one of the best national parks in Sri Lanka for game spotting.
With herds of elephants, wild buffalo, sambar and spotted deer, and giant squirrel, this Sri Lankan national park is one of the nation's finest. In fact, for elephant-watching, Udawalawa often surpasses many of the most famous East African national parks. The park, which centers on the 308.2-square-kilometer Udawalawa Reservoir, is lightly vegetated, but it has a stark beauty and the lack of dense vegetation makes game-watching easy.
There are also mongooses, jackals, water monitor lizards, lots of crocodiles, sloth bears, and the occasional leopard. There are 30 varieties of snakes and a wealth of birdlife – 210 species at last count; northern migrants join the residents between November and April.
Weligama Bay Beach - West Coast
Weligama (meaning "sandy village") is an interesting blend of a lively fishing town and beach resort. The sprawling main settlement and the coastal road are somewhat scruffy and not that easy on the eye, but you'll find the sandy beach attractive once you're away from the main section; there are a couple of cove beaches west of the center.
Weligama's benign beach break is ideal for novice surfers and many independent travelers learn to ride their first waves here. After some fun in the ocean, you can marvel at (and feast on) the denizens of the deep, who end their days being hacked up and sold from roadside fish stalls.
Food
On this holiday, you will be served with daily breakfast included in the price. For the rest of the meals, you can have the best local food experience as well as the western and Sri Lankan foods in local restaurants.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- 6 surf lessons and 1 beginner's diving lesson and dive
- 3 yoga classes
- Sri Lankan cookery class
- Cycling tours: Belilena Cave cycling tour, Aberdeen Falls cycling tour
- Whitewater rafting at Kithulgala
- Tea plantation education tour
- Little Adam's Peak tour, Nine Arch Bridge tour, Rawana Waterfall and cave tour
- Visit handmade clay pot village maker
- Udawalawa safari
- Visit Udawalawa elephant orphanage and village
- Matara Temple tour
- Discover diving Bridge Rock Cave dive spot
- 9 nights accommodation
- Daily breakfast and BBQ dinner at waterfall villa camp
- Equipment for all the activities
- Train ride to Ella
- Airport pickup
What's not included
- Airport transfers to Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB)
- Flights to and from Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB)
- Lunch and dinner for 9 days
- Massage and spa treatments
- Optional activities
How to get there
Recommended Airports
CMB
Bandaranaike International Airport
63 km
Transfer included
HRI
Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
109 km
Transfer included
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB) or Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (HRI). Transfer from either of these airports is included. Sri Lankan Tour Hub will pick you up from the airport. Only pick up is included in the package.
Airport: Bandaranaike International Airport
Airport transfer included: Bandaranaike International Airport
No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.
Airport: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
Airport transfer included: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 25% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
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