During rest in Koggal, tourists can make some interesting day excursions.
Excursion to Galle
For example, a fairly exciting trip can be a trip accompanied by a local guide or independently in the ancient city of Galle, located just thirty minutes away from a small beach resort. Here, travelers will have to explore the ancient fort, which is one of the five significant historical sights of Sri Lanka. In fact, familiarity with the fort and will take almost all excursion time. The fact is that it covers a whole urban quarter, called the old town. What to say, Fort Galle is not only protective walls and vintage antique buildings, but also a few museums, churches, bell tower and lighthouse. All of them are located inside a big fortress and are interesting in their own way. So travelers during this excursion can for the start bypassing the Fort around the perimeter, along the walls, and then look into the local lore museum or the National Museum.
By the way, you can climb on the walls in several stairs. The fee for the entrance to their vertex is not charged, but for visiting museums will have to pay. And often the price of entrance tickets is not included in the price of the tour. So interested museums tourists will have to be able to spend additionally. A visit to the National Maritime Museum on Church Street will cost 650 rupees, and the viewing of the local history museum on the same street will fall out in 300 rupees. Honestly, the exposition of the local history museum is much more and more interesting than the marine meeting. After the excursion, it will be possible to look at the church of all saints for free, located almost opposite the Marine Museum. Or climb the Lighthouse Galle, painting on Layn Baan Street.
By the way, the lighthouse opens a very picturesque view of the bay and it is from this point that you can make very beautiful pictures in memory of the journey. If time is allowed, you can still look into the Meera Mosque mosque or in the Dutch reform church. The mosque does not stand out for nothing, but the authority of 1760 is still stored within the church.
If a trip to Fort Galle will be organized, then travelers will not be able to avoid visiting a historic mansion on the Layn Baan Street. Gides necessarily show this part of the fortress to all tourists. In principle, the old house with a large private collection is an interesting place. It combines the museum and antique jewelry shop in his walls.
Entrance to the mansion is free. For visitors, even gratuitous excursion is held and allowed to photograph for free. The most interesting starts at the end of the inspection, when tourists have to fight back from the addition of proposals to acquire at least some trifle in the local store. Leave the mansion without buying is far from all. Although for connoisseurs of antiques and admirers of jewelry here there are many interesting things.
- The guided tour with the guide will cost about 3 thousand rupees. For duration, she will delay for a whole day. You can buy such a tour in any office of the information tourist agency Coggals, one of which works at the Cafe Ceylon hotel.
A little saving money on excursions will allow assistance from local residents. Many young Srimers are working in the coggal guides. They have this process has been established. They deliver tourists to those interested in places on their own Tuk Tuki, cars or minibuses. Their services are much cheaper.
- And yet, you can organize a tour in Galle yourself. Getting to the city of the city will not be difficult. Tourists will need to go to the only one available in the koggall and stop the first bus with a "Galle" or "Colombo" sign. Literally in 25 minutes, travelers will be delivered to the center of Galle in just 50 rupees. Fort is located from the city center within walking distance. It is open around the clock, and the entrance to it is free.
Farm Turtle Trip
This excursion will especially have to taste with small tourists. On the Sea Turtle Farm & Hatchery farm, it will be possible not only to admire the turtles, but also hold them in their hands.
The most tiny residents of the farm are contained in a special nursery. As the turtles are growing up in the ocean. However, some of them relating to rare species remain living on a farm for the purpose of breeding. Over time and they are released on the will.
- The road to the farm takes a little over five minutes. The entrance ticket costs 450 rupees. Services of the local conductor and part-time driver there is a tuk pulling for 200 rupees.
Excursion to Elephant Kennel
This walk is quite long, because by time takes about 20 hours. It includes a visit to the elephant nursery Panovella, a garden of spices, the Temple of Buddha, amazing waterfalls and mountain tea plantations Nuwar Elia. In the nursery, tourists are offered not only to admire the elephants and watch the process of their swimming in the river, but also ride on the back of wise animals. This entertainment is paid separately. And you can ride only two. It is fun about 1,500 rupees per person.
Charged positive emotions of travelers are driven further to admire the picturesque corners of nature and architectural creations. After visiting tea plantations, tourists will be brought to a tea factory and a shop working with it. In this place you can boldly serving real black and green tea. Prices in the store are quite acceptable. The same tea in Colombo is much more expensive. By the way, there is a terrace in the shop, sitting on which you can taste one of the varieties sold here for free. So, many tourists ask for them to brew silver (white) tea, which is very expensive. And even such a request is performed.
In general, the excursion, despite the high cost, delivers a lot of pleasure. Exhausted and enthusiastic tourists fall into their hotel around midnight.
- At the "street" guides, this fascinating and cognitive excursion costs about 10,500 rupees. This amount includes travel to both sides, entrance tickets to all attractions and guide services. Usually a walk passes on a small comfortable bus with air conditioning.