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4 Colombo Shore Excursions Worth the Money

4 tours  ·  from $45 a head

The 4 best colombo shore excursions you can book yourself, with what each costs a head, how long it runs and how much slack it leaves before all-aboard. Number one is first for a reason.

Shore Excursion Colombo City Tour Highlights - Starting at the Colombo port
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Shore Excursion Colombo City Tour Highlights

1.Shore Excursion Colombo City Tour Highlights

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 21 reviews · from $50Our pick

Review of Colombo’s private shore tour, with temples, museums, markets, port pickup, pricing, itinerary advice, and practical tips.

“pleasant guide and accommodating to our needs and interests. Nice tour of city and included visit to gem and teas store without any forcing to purchase”

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Shore Excursion Kelaniya Temple & Colombo City Tour - Colombo’s historic core works best from the vehicle
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Shore Excursion Kelaniya Temple & Colombo City Tour

2.Shore Excursion Kelaniya Temple & Colombo City Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 21 reviews · from $45Best value

Review of Colombo’s private port tour to Kelaniya Temple, Pettah, temples, landmarks, shopping, and safe ship return for $45.

“I booked the tour for my family of 6. I was able to communicate with tour company via WhatsApp as early as October. I find that really helpful. As soon as we got if the gangway, we could see the tour company booth already. Tour guide was friendly but spoke minimal English. I felt he was more of a chaperone than a tour guide. Couldn't answer some of the questions about history of some places. Conversation got a bit dry after a while so we requested to be dropped off at a shopping mall (One Galle Face Mall) for last part of the tour, arranged a time for them to…”

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SriLanka Shore Excursion by Genuine Srilankans - Gangaramaya Temple and Seema Malakaya
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SriLanka Shore Excursion by Genuine Srilankans

3.SriLanka Shore Excursion by Genuine Srilankans

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 18 reviews · from $140Top rated

Review of Colombo’s private shore excursion, covering temples, museums, markets, the Lotus Tower, transport, value, and practical tips.

“Our purpose for visiting Sri Lanka was to visit the Buddha temples and to pray. Our tour guide Mr. Kosala was an excellent and professional person. He constantly made efforts to explain Buddhism along the journey, and also diligently Read more”

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Colombo City Tour (small group with pickup from Cruise ship) - Seema Malakaya and the stillness of Beira Lake
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Colombo City Tour (small group with pickup from Cruise ship)

4.Colombo City Tour (small group with pickup from Cruise ship)

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 12 reviews · from $100

Review of Colombo’s small-group cruise shore tour, covering Pettah, Seema Malakaya, Old Parliament, transport, value, and booking tips.

“The meet and greet part of this tour was awful. It was supposed that the pick up point would from inside the port as mentioned in the tour details, and I have paid additional money for that since there was another cheaper tour but pick up Read more”

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