Private Day Trip to Sigiriya, Cave and National Park Safari Tour
4.5
75 Ratings
Sigiriya

Embark on a private day trip to Sigiriya, where you’ll explore the UNESCO-listed World Heritage Site, visit the Dambulla cave temple, and go on a thrilling safari tour. Discover ancient urban planning and immerse yourself in the rich history of this fascinating destination.

Duration: 12 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Sigiriya The Ancient Rock Fortress - Sigiriya or Sinhagiri is an ancient rock fortress located in the northern Matale District near the town of Dambulla in the Central Province, Sri Lanka. The name refers to a site of historical and archaeological significance that is dominated by a massive column of rock nearly 200 metres high.
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What's Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Bottled water
  • English speaking Driver
  • Transport by private vehicle
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
  • Food and drinks
  • Safari Jeep cost
  • All the entrance fees
Additional Information

Sigiriya is currently recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It stands as one of the finest examples of ancient urban planning, and exploring it in a single day can be challenging without private transportation. This private tour offers a personal vehicle to conveniently transport visitors, along with a Tourist Driver who provides insightful…

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Location
Sigiriya The Ancient Rock Fortress
Cancellation Policy

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

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Ellinf2025
Feb 10, 2025
Excellent tour company for heritage tour !! - The trip was really great and fun.ASANKA was an excellent guide and flexible to help do the activities as mentioned on the itinerary despite to get to the airport for an evening flight.we started the tour at 6.00 am than the scheduled time which helped to do all the activities. Sigiriya is an amazing and climbing is bit hard but really worth visiting there, this was an perfect day tour with full of activities and worth for money. Highly recommend!!!
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Sid0nie
Jan 28, 2025
An amazing but exhausting day - An amazing day packing in the safari, Sigriya & Dambulla from Colombo. It involved over 7 hours of driving safely, thanks to Shanesh. Watching a family of elephants feed, almost within touching distance, was a highlight. Climbing Sigiriya, 1200 steps & Dambulla 400 steps, requires a significant degree of fitness but both well worth it. We had an excellent buffet lunch (there is also an a la carte menu) for 2,500lkr at the Rukmali Hotel. There was good communication about the itinerary from JK Travel Personally I feel the Ayurvedic tour was unnecessary & increased the time pressure Having Shanesh as a personal chauffeur for the day made the experience possible. We would definitely recommend the tour despite it being a long day
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Jamaldinn
Jan 26, 2025
Natheela service excellent 💗 - Natheela....service excellent....... verandah Restaurant buffet is very good....I will recommend this hotel...Thank you Galleee face hotel...........................................................................💗
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231jannes
Jan 16, 2025
Amazing Experience! Very Professional - We had an incredible tour with JK Travels, exploring the world heritage of sigiriya fortress and enjoying unforgettable safari tour. Our guide Shanesh was absolutely fantastic. He was friendly and attentive.He always made sure we were comfortable and taken care of throughout the entire trip. Great organizing and strongly recommend.
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Taylahf2025
Jan 15, 2025
Unforgettable memories! - We had a great tour from Colombo to sugiriya organized by the JK Travels, everything as described and we enjoyed the tour without any issue. The tour itself amazing but it was a long day and really worth for money you paid. Thanks A lot for this unforgettable journey.
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777savvy
Jan 9, 2025
Amazing Day!!! - Sigiriya is breathtaking and we are very happy that we travelled all the way from Colombo to see this wonderful fortress. Simply loved the elephant safari. It was pouring but that didnt dampen our spirits with the desire to see the elephants in their natural habitat. We spotted quite a few elephants despite the rain. Overall a wonderful day made complete by JK Travels by providing us with a comfortable car and a very knowledgeable and a kind driver.
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Tpeace012014
Jan 6, 2025
A Memorable Tour - Our tour was amazing -- our guide Asanka was quite accommodating and gave us a few extra "tours" of a herbal medicinal school and the vegetable market (largest in the country). We enjoyed the elephant safari, and the Dambulla cave tour. Due to our detours we arrived at Sigiriya late, and it was very crowded for sundown. We recommend going to Sigirya early for sunrise (like 5am) and avoid most of the crowds that way. We enjoyed our day tour though, and as said Askanka was very helpful and made our experience memorable.
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Larssn1901ds
Jan 2, 2025
Fantastic Tour with safe driving. - This was our first tour in Sri Lanka and its truly amazing. we had a great time and enjoyed the tour. The best part of this tour was safari and Sigiriya climbing. Thanks for arranging such a lovely and amazing tour for us. All are well organized. we paid them directly for the entrance, so we didn't carry cash during the tour. Thanks JK Travels and our guide Shanesh
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Habeeb81
Jan 13, 2025
Wonderful Scenery over the Ancient Rock - Private Day Trip to Sigiriya, cave and National park Safari Tour. It was very interesting with a good tour provider. But, it's exhausting as it takes more than 14 hours if you would have at all, so I canceled some stops and visits to keep it to 12 hours.  National park Safari tour was wasting of time looking desperately for elephants by riding safari car, it is much better to go to a special elephants park anywhere else in Srilanka and find a lot of elephants. While Sigiriya ancient rock fortress tour was beautiful but if you do not have good fitness or you have disability it would be so difficult to climb the rock's mountain. National park Safari costs around 100$. the cave costs 7$. Sigiriya rock costs 35$. so the total trip costs around 272$.
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Tarita_b
Jan 10, 2025
Optimal organisation, very kind driver...the weak point is just it's too much for one day: for iron mens :-) - The trip was very nice, the communication was perfect, and they helped with paying for the entrance tickets. All this part was excellent. The only weak point is that it is too much. I do not know how could people wake up at 6.00, stay in a car for 4 hours (7-11), then enjoy a safari (which was marvellous with kind people but anyway is related to being worn out for 2 hours in a jeep under the sun), have light lunch and then, if you do not want to miss the amazing Dambulla temple (closing at 17:30 - many steep steps to climb), be able to climb Sigiriya (more than 1000 steps) in a couple of hours....because everything is closing at 17:30 so no way to ask for more time....overall everything hotel -> hotel lasted 14h and we were exhausted. Sigiriya is expensive, better visit it with calm on a separate day...otherwise this (wonderful) trip can be enjoyed fully only by Olympic athletes ....
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