Experiences
Leave from our gate.
Come back changed, slightly.
Every experience is run by our own guides, people who grew up between the lake and the hills. Minimum two guests, fully insured, transfers included. Tell us what you want and we will put the days in order.
Experiences
Twenty-one ways
into the ancient east.
Every one of these leaves from our gate with our own guides. Tap a pin. Build a trip. Send it to us on WhatsApp and we will put the days in order.
Distances are drive times from the casa. Tap a pin for the day.
On the water
Sorabora Wewa, ten minutes from the gate. Dawn boats, floating dinners, the fishermen's market.
10 min · 1.5 hours · Easy
Sunrise at Sorabora Lake
Be on the water before the mist lifts.
10 min · 1 hour on the water · Easy
Sorabora Lake Boat Ride
An hour on the water in a thatched-roof boat.
10 min · 5 hours · Easy
The Full Sorabora Morning
Sunrise, boat, rock breakfast, fishing, and the fish market. One morning.
10 min · 2 hours · Easy
Traditional Lake Fishing
Cast a net with the men who have fished this water all their lives.
10 min · 1 hour · Easy
Lake Fish Market
The night's catch on banana leaf, before seven.
10 min · Overnight, 5:30 pm to 8:00 am · Easy
Night Camping at Pinihiniyagala
Boat out at sunset, sleep on the rock, boat back after sunrise.
Waterfalls and rock
Rathna Ella, Kaluwa Wetuna Ella, Danigala. Hikes through paddy and forest to water you can swim in.
55 min · Half day · Easy to moderate
Rathna Ella Hike
A hundred metres of water falling out of the Knuckles.
55 min · Full day · Easy to moderate
Rathna Ella Waterfall and Village
The falls, the potter, the mat weaver, and lunch in a farmhouse.
40 min · Half day · Easy to moderate
Kaluwa Wetuna Ella
A thirty-metre fall with the best swimming pool in the hills.
40 min · 3 hours · Moderate
Casa Falls Hike
Our own quiet waterfall, forty minutes from the gate.
90 min · Full morning · Moderate
Danigala, the Alien Rock
A perfect ring of bare rock above the jungle, with a two-thousand-year-old cave at the top.
People of the land
The Wanniyala-Aetto of Dambana, potters, mat weavers, honey hunters, and the island's first stupa.
From the gate · 2 to 3 hours · Easy
Village Bicycle Ride
Flat lanes, paddy, the lake bund, and a lot of waving.
30 min · 3 hours · Easy
Dambana and the Wanniyala-Aetto
An evening with the island's first people, on their terms.
30 min · Half day · Easy to moderate
Wild Honey with the Forest People
Follow a honey hunter into the Dambana forest. January to May.
20 min · 2 hours · Easy
Pottery in the Village
A kick wheel, red clay, and a potter who makes it look easy.
20 min · 2 hours · Easy
Mat Weaving at the Farmhouse
Reed mats woven on the floor, the pattern held in the weaver's head.
15 min · 2.5 hours · Easy to moderate
Sita Kotuwa
Sita's fortress in the Ramayana. A forest monastery to the archaeologists. Beautiful either way.
At the table
Live village cooking, lake-rock breakfasts, a clay-pot lunch in a farmhouse at the foot of the falls.
10 min · 2.5 hours · Easy
Breakfast at Sorabora Rock
Hoppers off the pan on a rock in the middle of the lake.
10 min · 2 hours · Easy
Floating Sunset Dinner
A table for two on the lake while the hills go violet.
20 min · 2.5 hours · Easy
Clay-Pot Lunch at Rathna Ella
Rice and twelve curries cooked over wood in a farmhouse at the foot of the falls.
Into the parks
Maduru Oya, Wasgamuwa and Gal Oya. Elephants, reservoirs, and birds by the hundred.
Plan it with us
Build your days.
We'll reply as people.
One WhatsApp message to the casa. A person replies.
- Best rate direct
- Village breakfast included
- Pay at the casa
