Galle Day Trip: Explore Sri Lanka's Unique City and Experience Stilt Fishing

Explore Galle - This unique city in Sri Lanka stands apart from the rest, with its narrow streets making you forget you’re actually in Sri Lanka. Its atmosphere transports you back to a historic city in Europe, offering a peculiar and charming experience!

Duration: 10 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications - Old Town of Galle, Sri Lanka. … Galle was built as a fortified coastal city with large walls along the seashore. It was designed with a European way of thinking
  • that attacks from colonial competitors could come from the sea as well as the land.
What's Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off (Colombo City Center)
  • English Speaking Driver
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Gratuities
Additional Information
  • The duration of transfers are approximate 8 hours, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic conditions
Location
Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Chachingnew
Jan 28, 2019
Amazing Tour - Udus was an fabulous driver/guide. We highly recommend Sanota Walkers tour company for excellent service, safe transfer and flexibility!!
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Nathalie_n
Jun 17, 2018
This is such a good tour especially... - <p>This is such a good tour especially combined with Bentota. Our tour guide company Otnworld represnted by Deva the Manager and the tour guide Keerthe were such amazing people showing us the good hospitality of Sri Lanka. They were absolutely cooperative in all means. Keerthi explained each and every site and gave us the time we want at each location. He also cared about us if we are comfortable or not. </p> <p>Highly recommended..</p>
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Vagabondginger
Jun 27, 2019
Galle Fort - This trip from Colombo to see Galle makes for a long day. I enjoyed the sea turtle conservancy where we stopped and I released a little hatchling into the sea. The stilt fishermen are just posing for photos and charging money. Hardly worth the stop. Galle looked like the kind of place that would have been good to have stayed in for a night. Probably good restaurants there too. We stopped at a buffet type place on the way back and altho it was nice and had an ocean view, I am not a fan of buffet food and some other choice in Galle may have been better. My driver basically was just the driver and did not offer much as far as telling me anything about the country as most guides would do. Being as I was based in Colombo for just a couple of days I didn't have much time to do this properly. I would suggest planning the trip to Sri Lanka to include more time outside the city and to plan for at least a week long stay. Sri Lanka has a lot to offer and Colombo only takes a couple of hours to see the interesting parts of the city.
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Alan
Apr 7, 2019
Over priced, didn’t follow itinerary with expensive add on’s - We had just completed a two week private tour of Sri Lanka with another company which was excellent value for money. With the Viator Galle tour we assumed we would get equal value. Nothing could have been further from reality. It was poor value for money. It did not follow the published itinerary, missing out the Stilt Fishing and introducing a river/mango trip without prior notification. This had an expensive additional entrance charge with fish massage (which we didn’t do) as a further add on and a Cinamon Island “tour” which was basically a Cinamon product sales pitch. The published itinerary cannot be completed sensibly in the allocated 10 hours. Really poor value. We will not be using Viator for tours again
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