Minneriya

Minneriya Elephant Gathering

The dry-season congregation of hundreds of elephants on the receding tank shoreline.

It runs 4 hours door to door, including the transfer from your hotel. We book it directly rather than through an agent, so the start time on this page is the start time you get.

It slots into any of our journeys, and a consultant will tell you plainly if the month you are travelling is the wrong one for it.

The rest of what we run

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3.5 hoursSigiriya at First Light SigiriyaOn the 6:30am gate with a site archaeologist, ahead of the coach groups and the heat.From $68 pp

4 hoursHabarana Village Afternoon HabaranaBullock cart, catamaran across the tank, and lunch cooked over firewood in a village home.From $55 pp

2 hoursEvening Puja at the Temple of the Tooth KandyDrummers, oil lamps and the 6:30pm opening of the inner chamber.From $40 pp

4–7 hoursThe Hill Country Train to Ella Kandy to EllaReserved seats on the Badulla line, through tea estates, tunnels and the Demodara loop.From $48 pp

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