The Itinerary Sri Lanka and Maldives itineraries
Day-by-day routes through Sri Lanka and Maldives, each 12 days — with what every trip actually costs.
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Planning a trip to Sri Lanka and Maldives
Pulled from the route below — so it says what it does, not what a brochure would.
When to go
Dec–Mar — the months this route recommends.
How long you need
Every route here runs 12 days.
What it costs
≈ AED 700 per person per day. Beds, food, getting around and things to do — costed line by line in each guide, not estimated from a daily rate.
Entry on an Indian passport
Two sets of rules on this trip, and both have to be sorted before you fly.
- Sri Lanka: Travel authorisation online first, 30 days. The tourist authorisation is free; a business one is not. Sri Lanka has moved between free, paid and visa-free more than once.
- Maldives: No visa needed, 90 days.
Checked 2026-11 against Wikipedia’s compilation of IATA Timatic entries. Entry rules depend on your passport and where you live, and they change with little notice — confirm with each embassy or your airline before you book. Check another country.
Where these routes go: Colombo · Sigiriya · Kandy · Ella · Yala · Galle · Malé.
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Best for: Eight days of everything, then four of nothing at all
Sri Lanka and the Maldives in 12 days: Sigiriya, the hill country, Yala and an atoll
Colombo → Sigiriya → Kandy → Ella → Yala → Galle → Malé → an atoll
A rock fortress with a mirror wall, tea terraces reached by the best train ride in Asia, leopards in a dry-zone park, and then an hour's flight to an atoll where the only thing on the agenda is the reef — the two halves deliberately do not resemble each other.
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