Published on Apr, 2025
We arrived in Bentota for 10days with no tours booked. With 3 children 14,12 and 8years and our first time visiting Sri Lanka we wanted to arrive and get settled before making any arrangements. I found Bentota Travel Mart on Tripadvisor and emailed them to get an idea of tours available and prices. As well as the information requested Sam also kindly provided me with travel times for the tours and with three children this helped a great deal. We chose the Udawalawe Safari tour first which included a trip to the elephant transit home. It was an early start at 4am pick up, but this added to the excitement of the trip ( hotels normally provide breakfast boxes if you are leaving early so worth checking). Our driver and guide was Janith and he was great with the children as well as telling us lots about the trip and what to expect. We were lucky enough to see lots of elephants on the tour including baby elephants with their family, we also managed to see lots of varieties of eagles, peacocks, monkey, water buffalo, spotted deer and many beautiful birds. The whole family thoroughly enjoyed the trip and I would highly recommend it.
We also booked through Bentota Travel Mart to visit a turtle hatchery and release baby turtles onto the beach. We thought after the safari that this would be an experience hard to beat but this short evening experience was magical and one that we are so privileged to have been able to do. Definitely a must on your trip to Sri Lanka!
Out last trip of the holiday through Bentota travel mart was a trip to Galle and a local temple, Sam helped us tailor make the trip to suit our needs and the guide was so knowledgable that we learnt so much. I cannot rate Bentota Travel Mart highly enough they made every trip stress free!
