welcome to Carlo tours
Your Happiness is our first priority
Welcome to Carlo tours. We're a local team passionate about sharing the real Sri Lanka with you, with handpicked experiences, trusted private drivers, guiding, and journeys designed around your style.
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Carlo Tours has been driving international traveler's across Sri Lanka since 2016. Same small team, same promise, every trip.
- 5 Years on the road
- 1000+ Tours completed
- 15 min From Colombo airport
- 24/7 Reachable on WhatsApp
Multi-day tours
Built around your calendar, not ours.
Tell us how many days you have and what you care about. We write the route, book the hotels if you want us to, and drive it with you. Change your mind on day three and we rewrite the rest.
The routes below are starting points, not packages. Nothing here is fixed.
Short escape
One overnight that still feels like a trip. Galle and the southern forts, or Kandy and the first of the hills.
The Cultural Triangle
Sigiriya, Dambulla, Polonnaruwa and Anuradhapura. Early starts for the climbs, shade in the afternoons.
Hill country and tea
The highland train, working estates above Nuwara Eliya, and waterfalls you hear before you see.
Island highlights
Heritage sites, one safari morning and the south coast beaches. The classic first visit, with slack built in.
The grand tour
The whole island at an unhurried pace, with rest days wherever you want them rather than where a schedule says.
Send us your dates. You get a day-by-day plan and one all-in price, free.
Day trips and themes
Out and back in a day.
If you are staying put on the coast and only want to see one thing properly, take a day. Same private vehicle, same driver-guide, home by evening.
Every day trip starts and ends at your hotel in Negombo, Colombo or anywhere on the west coast.
- Sigiriya and Dambulla
- Kandy and the Temple of the Tooth
- Galle Fort and the south coast
- Minneriya or Wilpattu safari
- Pinnawala and the spice gardens
- Colombo city and Negombo lagoon
Or follow one thread across the whole island.
Four ways to build a longer trip around a single interest. Each one is still written around your dates.
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Wildlife safaris
Leopards at Yala, elephants at Minneriya, whales off Mirissa. Early starts, a jeep, and a tracker who knows where they were yesterday.
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Cultural and UNESCO heritage
Eight World Heritage sites on one island. We time the climbs for the cool hours and the temples for when the crowds thin out.
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Hill country and tea
The blue train through the highlands, estate factories still running on colonial machinery, and cold mornings at 1,800 metres.
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Coast and surf
The south between November and April, the east coast when the monsoon flips. We follow the weather rather than the brochure.
Vehicles and transfers
A clean vehicle and a driver who knows the road.
Every vehicle is modern, fully air-conditioned and insured, and every driver is a licensed tourist driver-guide. You keep the same vehicle and the same driver for the whole trip.
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Private car with driver-guide
- Guests
- 1 to 3
- Luggage
- 3 medium size
An air-conditioned sedan for couples and solo travellers. The most comfortable way to cover long distances on your own schedule.
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Toyota HiAce van
- Guests
- 3 to 6
- Luggage
- 6 large bags
air-conditioned and genuinely spacious. The right call for families and anyone travelling with surfboards or camera kit.
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Bus
- Guests
- group
- Luggage
- According to the group,
A higher ride for hill-country switchbacks and national park tracks, with the comfort to still enjoy a six-hour drive.
Airport transfers, at any hour.
Our base is fifteen minutes from Bandaranaike International. Whether you land at noon or at two in the morning, your driver is already waiting when you walk out.
What we guarantee
The things you should not have to take on trust.
Booking a private tour from the other side of the world asks a lot of a stranger. These are the six commitments that come with every trip, in writing, before you pay anything.
Questions are free and so is the itinerary. We usually reply within a few minutes.
01 A fair price, stated once
Your quote covers fuel, highway tolls, vehicle insurance and the driver's meals and lodging. No hidden costs, no surprise extras at the end of the trip.
02 Milestone payments, never everything upfront
You pay in instalments as the tour progresses. Your money is never sitting with a company you have not met yet.
03 A real office you can walk into
We are a registered Sri Lankan tour operator with a physical office in Negombo and a hotline that runs around the clock. There is always someone to call.
04 Instant vehicle backup
In the rare event of a breakdown we dispatch a replacement vehicle immediately, at no cost to you. Your day carries on.
05 Open communication, day or night
Call or message any time. We are on WhatsApp to answer questions, move the plan around or help from the roadside.
06 A free itinerary consultation
Before you commit to anything, we build you a day-by-day plan for your dates and interests. No charge, no obligation to book.
Reviews
What travellers say once they are home.
Most of our bookings come from someone who travelled with us and told a friend. These are published exactly as they were written.
Absolute peace of mind from start to finish!
We were a bit nervous booking from across the world, but Carlo was amazing. Our flight into Colombo was delayed by 3 hours, landing at 2 AM, but since their office is just 15 minutes from the airport, our driver was waiting with a huge smile! The Toyota HiAce van was super clean and comfortable. We loved the flexible service—whenever we wanted to skip a museum to just sit at a local tea estate café, our driver adapted instantly. No hidden costs, just honest and exceptionally friendly service. Highly recommend!
The best way to see the real Sri Lanka
Carlo Tours made our 10-day family trip completely stress-free. Driving on the roads looks terrifying, but our driver-guide was incredibly safe and professional. We loved that we didn't have to pay everything upfront—the milestone payments gave us total trust. Carlo was always online, and any time we could call or message him on WhatsApp with questions. Best of all, no tourist traps or forced shopping stops like other tour companies do. Just a beautiful, honest journey.
100% flexible and highly recommended
We did a 5-day tour of the Cultural Triangle and Hill Country. The schedule was 100% flexible. On day 3, it started raining heavily in the mountains, and our driver immediately helped us safely rewrite our itinerary for the day so we didn't miss out on the fun. The pricing was completely transparent and covered all fuel, tolls, and driver lodging. You can truly trust this team!
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Start here
Tell us when you land.
Send your dates, how many of you there are, and anything you already know you want to see. We come back with a day-by-day plan and a single all-in price. There is no deposit to get that far, and no obligation once you have it.
Or call the same number. Someone answers at any hour, including the small ones.
- +94 77 623 6275
- Phone
- +94 77 623 6275
- Our office
- 59/A, Ethgala Kochchikade (Negombo) Sri Lanka
- Hours
- 24/7 availability
