Half-Day Lagoon and Village Cycling Tour in Galle
Description
This lagoon and village cycling tour goes at your own pace. You'll get off the beaten track with an easy 7.5 miles (12 km) ride from approx. 2.5 to 3 hours (or more) depending on how comfortable you are and how fast you wish to cycle. The tour stays primarily on dirt and gravel tracks and shows you local industries, lagoon and mangroves, fauna, flora and also meets the local people. If you wish to stay away from the touristy areas and experience the lifestyle of the locals while cycling, this is a perfect tour for you.
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Itinerary
We start our tour at 8.30 am for Morning Departure or 2.30 pm for the Afternoon Departure. At the tour operator’s house, you will be provided with welcome and tour information, bottled water, helmets, and a city bike or mountain bike for your size. After a short briefing, you start the tour with our experienced English-speaking local guide who takes you first through small dirt roads through a small local village to lagoon and mangroves forests. Along the way, you can experience the local lifestyle, plants, animals, culture, and local biodiversity in Sri Lanka- mangrove forest. On this tour, we visiting Local traditional industries coconut factory and Handloom factory (not on Sundays). Refreshing king coconut winds down your tour before you head back to the final destination.
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What's included
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Please specify desired departure time (morning or afternoon) at the time of booking
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
Reviews(100)
We booked a cycling experience and our guide Chatothu was incredible. His local knowledge was really good and the kids were thoroughly engaged. He was safe and a really good guide. I think we had around 4 hours in all, which included a visit to the coconut rope making factory and the handwoven textiles factory.. both really good experiences and definitely worth seeing to gain an insight into the hard work that goes into certain everyday products. We would recommend this tour for anyone visiting the area (we came up from hirketiya) we stopped for coconut water and fruit from a local seller which was lovely as well.
Kattu a great tour guide easy course about 12 km fantastic scenery and great exhibitions
It was nice Very good tour guide (chathu) Must try activity Great hospitality Thank you so much chameera cycling
Great experience! Tour guide was fantastic. Very informative and we saw so much! Highly recommend this tour.
The reviews we read were all positive and they were right! What a great couple of hours cycling through quiet village streets and around the lagoon. Our guide Danuka was very friendly and knowledgeable and we saw many plants and animals along the way. Thanks for a great morning!
Excellent cycling tour from a very friendly team at Chameera cycling, who also arranged all the stops and payments throughout the tour so it was interesting but relaxed. Beautiful scenery and a nice refreshment stop too - would highly recommend the morning tour for wildlife (& weather)!
Super nice route in a beautiful area with a guide, who has a lot of knowledge of nature. And the refreshments were delicious too. Definitely recommended!
Nice walk with discovery of the coconut fiber rope factory , cotton weavers and interesting information on the general environment:)
I had the most amazing experience on my bike tour, off the beaten track. Saw amazing wildlife that my tour guide pointed out. He was very knowledgeable and safety aware. I would throughly recommend this, an high light.
Great experience with our guide Chattu. He knew all about the local plants and animals. Lovely scenic bike ride around the local streets and mangroves. Easy ride. Fab to see water monitor lizards and the giant bats. Stopped at the local handloom factory and coconut coir workshop. Which was very informative. There is a shop selling the handmade clothes which are quite expensive and the follow you around. Don't think they were happy we didn't buy anything.
