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Ceylon Tours

Name: Ceylon Tours
Address: 8A Sir Ernest de Silva mawatha, Colombo, 00700, LK
Telephone: +94115531611

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Sri Lanka's first tour operator — est. 1946. Private, tailor-made journeys for discerning travellers

30/05/2026

Wishing you and your loved ones a bright and blessed Vesak filled with peace, reflection and happiness. 🌕🪔

සුබ වෙසක් මංගල්‍යයක් වේවා!

29/05/2026

Vesak, the most important Buddhist festival, commemorates the birth, Enlightenment, and Parinirvana of the Buddha.

It is celebrated across Asia. But in Sri Lanka, it transforms an entire island.

For a few nights each year, streets glow with handmade lanterns, neighbourhoods come together to build intricate illuminated thorana, and thousands of Dansala offer food, drinks, and sweet treats completely free to anyone who passes by.

What makes Sri Lanka special is not just the scale of the celebration, but its spirit. Families spend weeks crafting lanterns by hand. Entire communities volunteer their time and resources. Strangers are welcomed with remarkable generosity. Everywhere you go, there is light, devotion, and a sense of shared celebration.

One of the most significant places to experience Vesak is Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara, a sacred temple just outside Colombo. According to Buddhist tradition, the temple was sanctified by the Buddha during his third visit to Sri Lanka, and during Vesak it becomes a major pilgrimage site for devotees from across the island.

Vesak in Sri Lanka is more than a festival. It is a rare chance to witness an entire nation illuminated by faith, creativity, and extraordinary kindness.

📤 Share this carousel with someone who has never experienced Vesak in Sri Lanka.

28/05/2026

Eid Al-Adha Mubarak! 🌙

Wishing you and your loved ones a beautiful Eid filled with gratitude, togetherness, and blessings. 🕌🤍

26/05/2026

Some trips give you photos. Sri Lanka gives you stories. 🇱🇰✨

A sunrise on Pidurangala Rock.
A slow train winding through the misty hills.
A quiet moment watching elephants roam free in Yala.
And somehow, before the journey ends, this island feels less like a destination and more like a memory you never want to leave behind.

At Ceylon Tours, Sri Lanka’s trusted tour specialist since 1946, we craft private, seamless journeys for travellers who want more than a checklist.

Save this for your future Sri Lanka trip 📌

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22/05/2026

Sri Lanka has 4,000 species of flowering plants, 174 species of reptiles, and 59 species of amphibians recorded. It holds the highest species density for flowering plants, amphibians, reptiles and mammals in the entire Asian region. 🦎

The leopard in Yala. The elephant crossing the Minneriya plain. The sea turtle nesting on a southern beach at midnight. The Purple-faced Langur in a Sinharaja tree. These are not tourist attractions. They are living ecosystems doing the work that keeps everything — including travel, including us — possible.

At Ceylon Tours, we believe good travel needs living ecosystems. We have believed that since 1946.

Travel like biodiversity matters. Because it does.

📩 Responsible, private Sri Lanka wildlife journeys, crafted entirely around you. Message us or find the link in our bio.

19/05/2026

🦚 Sri Lanka Safaris — the complete guide.
Right park. Right season. Unforgettable wildlife.

Sri Lanka may be a small island, but its wildlife experiences rival some of the best safaris in Africa and India. In just a few hours, you can journey from misty mountains to vast national parks filled with elephants, leopards, crocodiles, sloth bears, and hundreds of bird species.

Here’s how to choose the perfect safari:

🐘 Want to see elephants in incredible numbers?
Minneriya • Udawalawe • Wasgamuwa

🐆 Dreaming of spotting a leopard in the wild?
Yala • Wilpattu

🌿 Looking for something truly different?
Bundala for birdlife & lagoons
Gal Oya for rare boat safaris alongside wildlife

At Ceylon Tours, creating private safari journeys in Sri Lanka is one of our greatest specialities. We carefully match every traveller to the right park based on the season, wildlife interests, and travel style — then curate every detail, from expert naturalists to exceptional stays.

No fixed templates. No rushed experiences.
Just remarkable wildlife, designed around you.

Comment "Safari" and we will DM you with the full plan.

15/05/2026

If you need to go somewhere real.

Sri Lanka's safari is that somewhere. Sri Lanka's national parks were never designed for the scroll. They were designed for the stop — the full, heart-in-your-throat, breath-held stop that only wild nature can produce.

This is the kind of break you actually come back from. 🌿

13/05/2026

🌿 Most people see one side of Sri Lanka. Very few experience just how varied the island really is.

A different side of Sri Lanka unfolds on this journey.

14 days across Kalpitiya, Wilpattu, Mannar, Jaffna, Gal Oya, Diggana, Anuradhapura, and Negombo — through remote coastlines, ancient kingdoms, wildlife reserves, island communities, and landscapes many travellers never get to see.

This is not the fast-paced checklist version of Sri Lanka.

It’s flamingos in Mannar, long empty roads in the north, boat safaris in Gal Oya, centuries of history in Anuradhapura, and the distinct culture and cuisine of Jaffna.

Each slide in this carousel takes you through the itinerary day by day — carefully paced, privately guided, and designed to show a deeper, more varied side of the island.

At Ceylon Tours, we’ve been designing journeys across Sri Lanka since 1946, with carefully selected stays, experienced local guides, and itineraries tailored around the kind of travel you actually want.

📩 Private, tailor-made Sri Lanka itineraries. Message us or visit the link in our bio.

12/05/2026

Sri Lanka, you discover with every single sense. And it starts — always — with the food.

What you're looking at is not just a meal. It is the soul of the island's dining culture. Every spoonful carries a mix of flavour, texture, and history that reflects the land and its people's diversity.

Rice sits at the centre, piled high and steaming. Around it, curries in contrasting colours — each cooked separately, each telling you something different about the region, the season, the hand that made it.

This is Sri Lanka, one bite at a time.

11/05/2026

🌿 Sri Lanka — Island of Wonders. One island that contains multitudes.

Swipe through. We dare you not to feel something.

There is a particular kind of travel that doesn't just take you somewhere — it changes the shape of you. Quietly. Permanently. The kind where you land home and realise the person who left is not quite the same as the one who returned.

Sri Lanka does that. Reliably. To almost everyone.

Comment "Sri Lanka" and we'll slide into your DMs with a trip built around you.

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8A Sir Ernest De Silva Mawatha
Colombo
00700

Opening Hours

Monday	08:30 - 17:30
Tuesday	08:30 - 17:30
Wednesday	08:30 - 17:30
Thursday	08:30 - 17:30
Friday	08:30 - 17:30

Telephone

+94115531611

Website

http://www.ceylontours.com/

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