Private Half-Day Colombo City Tour: A Detailed Exploration of Sri Lanka's Capital

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Colombo

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Choose this tour to get a detailed picture of the capital of Sri Lanka with your own licensed private tour guide. Customize it to match your curiousities like tasting local street food etc.

Duration: 5 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Old Parliament Building - Old parliament building

What's Included

All Entrance Fees
In-vehicle air conditioning
Transport by private air-conditioned vehicle
Parking fees
Hotel pick-up and drop-off

What's Not Included

Tips, gratuities and expenses of personal nature
Foods and drinks
Port entrance fee $ 20 USD per tour payable directly to the guide
Airport pickup fee 15 USD. Pickup & drop off after tour 25 USD
Entrance fees

Additional Information

Please advise TOUR START TIME you prefer would like to secure at the time of booking
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately

Location

Old Parliament Building

Fort

Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings

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Annemaree_d

Aug 17, 2025

Colombo tour from Negombo - Excellent tour. Godfrey our driver was so knowledgeable & kept us informed with much history & local knowledge. Adapted the day to suit our interests. Perfect introduction to Colombo.

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Zohra_p

Apr 29, 2025

Our Colombo experience - This was an excellent trip. Shimaz was an excellent guide. And the most amazing person to go on a tour with. He was very generous and accommodating, and we loved every minute of it. We highly recommend using him.

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Nancy_h

Mar 19, 2025

Outstanding Tour Guide - I was hoping for a good tour guide and I got a great one! Shimaz was very knowledgeable and spoke English proficiently. He showed us everything the tour description listed and then some additional sites which were absolutely outstanding. He even included a stop for local ice cream and a local textile venue. Thank you!

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Johncl6447zj

Mar 17, 2025

Great experience - great guide, good driver! - excellent tour. driver was a great driver, nice air conditioned van. Got to a LOT of sites, which was great. Guide was excellent, great english, very informative, let us stop several places we had little stops we needed. Read our situation and could tell when we had seen enough and wanted to goto the next thing. Was happy, smily! Very informative lots of information. Acutally one of the best guides we've ever had. Highly reccomend.

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Lesley_c

Feb 25, 2025

Excellent opportunity to see highlights of Colombo - Driver was so pleasant. Vehicle was clean and air conditioned and he tailored the trip to places of interest that we would like to see. Shared information with us too. Highly recommended.

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Martyn_b

Feb 16, 2025

Excellent Tour of Colombo - Fantastic tour by Maz and driver. Superb morning with excellent knowledge of Colombo, its heritage and traditions. Car was air conditioned with water available. Not to be missed. Five star service.

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Rick_b

Jan 3, 2025

The car was comfortable,... - The car was comfortable, our guide knowledgeable and that combo made the tour a great experience. Colombo has a lot to offer and our guide was wonderful at presenting it to us

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Michellec116

Nov 15, 2024

Amazingly perfect tour of Colombo! - We had the most amazing tour with Priyantha! He went above and beyond to make sure we were fully satisfied. We wanted some specific food so he researched restaurants for us to find the perfect place for us. He tailored the tour so it was absolutely perfect for us. He is a genuinely kind and thoughtful person who loves Sri Lanka and is incredibly knowledgeable about the country. We learned so much from him. I can’t recommend Priyantha enough!

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Sachin_s

May 28, 2024

Excellent insightful tour - Shimaz was an excellent tour guide. He was extremely friendly, has lived in the UK so is completely fluent in English and is an official government registered tour guide which was clear to see by the quality of the tour. He was very knowledgable about Sri Lanka and its history and very flexible on timings and itinerary options. We would thoroughly recommend to anyone looking for a great tour of Colombo!

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Chris_h

Dec 4, 2024

Colombo highlights - Good content on this trip for overview of old and new Colombo. Guide was great. Flexible tour so could stop longer where you wanted.

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From $50

up to 6 guests

1 - Adult