Day Tours

Our day tours from Colombo and Negombo are crafted for travellers who want to experience the very best of Sri Lanka without a multi-day itinerary. Each tour departs early in the morning, maximising time at the destination while avoiding the heat and crowds of midday, and returns by early evening with memories that will last far longer than the journey itself.

Handunugoda Tea Estate & Cinnamon Experience

This unique day tour combines two of Sri Lanka’s most distinctive agricultural traditions – premium tea production and authentic Ceylon cinnamon cultivation – in a single expertly guided experience set within the spectacular scenery of the southern coastal belt. Handunugoda Tea Estate, located near Ahangama, is one of Sri Lanka’s most fascinating private tea producers and the only estate in the world to produce the exceptionally rare Virgin White Tea, a tea plucked exclusively in the misty early morning hours before the sun touches the leaves, producing a flavour of delicacy and refinement. The guided estate tour walks you through every stage of this premium production process before sitting down to a tasting session featuring a curated selection of the estate’s finest teas. The afternoon brings a visit to a cinnamon estate where the skilled art of cinnamon peeling – the patient, hand-worked process that produces Ceylon cinnamon’s characteristic quill shapes – is demonstrated with the pride and precision of generations of expertise.

Highlights

  • Handunugoda Estate – world’s only producer of Virgin White Tea
  • Guided tour of the tea production process from leaf to cup
  • Exclusive premium tea tasting, including rare white and oolong varieties
  • Cinnamon peeling demonstration at an authentic Ceylon cinnamon estate
  • Beautiful southern coastal landscape and plantation scenery

Inclusions

  • Air-conditioned private vehicle with professional chauffeur-guide
  • Handunugoda Tea Estate entrance and guided tour
  • Tea tasting session
  • Cinnamon estate visit and demonstration
  • Bottled water throughout

Exclusions

  • Meals
  • Tea and cinnamon purchases at the estates
  • Travel insurance and gratuities

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