Ramboda Falls
A 109-metre roadside waterfall on the A5 Kandy-Nuwara Eliya highway at Ramboda Pass, Sri Lanka's 11th-highest fall.
Duration
15-30 minutes
Entry Fee
Free
Difficulty
easy
Budget
free
About Ramboda Falls
Ramboda Falls drops 109 metres in two stages down the Panna Oya valley at Ramboda Pass, on the A5 highway roughly halfway between Kandy and Nuwara Eliya, making it Sri Lanka's 11th-highest waterfall. A small shrine to Hanuman sits partway down the marked path from the main viewpoint, and the surrounding hillsides are working tea estates. The fall runs fullest during and just after the April-June and October-December monsoon periods, when the drive up the pass's hairpin bends is at its most dramatic. Stop at the roadside viewpoint for the classic photo, or take the 10-15 minute walk down the steps for a closer look at the lower tier.
Highlights
- 109-metre two-stage waterfall
- 11th-highest waterfall in Sri Lanka
- Roadside viewpoint on the A5 Kandy-Nuwara Eliya highway
- Hanuman shrine on the path to the lower tier
- Surrounded by working tea estates
Practical Tips
Stop at the marked roadside viewpoint on the A5 for the classic photo without leaving the vehicle.
The 10-15 minute walk down the steps to the lower tier gets you closer but is uneven in wet weather.
Falls run fullest just after the April-June and October-December monsoon rains.
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Best Time to Visit
Best time of day: Year-round; fullest flow April-June and October-December after monsoon rain
Location
Planning Info
- Crowd level
- Moderate
- Physical difficulty
- easy
- Setting
- outdoor
- Child friendly
- Yes
- Senior friendly
- Yes
- Budget level
- free
- Photography
- ★★★★☆
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Tour Packages
from $450Classic Ceylon Discovery
Six days is not long, so this route spends none of it doubling back. You go inland to Kandy, up over the Ramboda Pass into the tea country, along the hill-country railway to Ella, down off the escarpment to Yala for a safari, and finish on the south coast at Mirissa. Every leg moves you forward, and the longest day in the car is the first one. What it gives up is the Cultural Triangle. Sigiriya, Dambulla, Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa all sit north of this loop and need at least one more overnight to reach honestly; Essence of Sri Lanka covers them in eight days. What it keeps is the four things most first-time visitors actually name when asked: a working temple, the train, a leopard park, and a beach. Nuwara Eliya is a pass-through rather than an overnight. You still get the tea estate and factory visit and the Ramboda Falls stop on the way to the station, without paying a night and a hotel change for them. Bring a light layer anyway, because the air at 1,868 m is cold even on a day visit.
6 days / 5 nights
from $0Ramayana Trail
Sri Lanka's Ramayana Trail links the places where, according to tradition, Rama, Sita, Hanuman and Ravana crossed paths after Sita's abduction: from the Shiva lingam Rama is said to have installed at Manavari, to the cave above Ravana Falls where legend holds Sita was kept, to the hill above Unawatuna that tradition calls a fragment of the herb-mountain Hanuman carried from the Himalayas. This 7-day circuit runs the length of the island in one direction. It starts on the west coast at Chilaw, climbs through Kandy into the tea hills at Nuwara Eliya, drops through Ella to the dry southern plains at Kataragama, and finishes on the south coast at Unawatuna. Each site gets its own part of the day rather than being stacked three to an afternoon, and no road is driven twice. Every site's Ramayana association is presented here as devotional tradition, not verified history, and your guide will frame it the same way. Vegetarian meals are confirmed at every hotel on request, and pure-vegetarian or Jain requirements are worth telling us at the time of booking rather than on arrival, because not every kitchen stocks for them by default.
7 days / 6 nights
from $600Essence of Sri Lanka
Eight days, six bases, and a deliberate order. You start inland at Sigiriya while you still have the legs for a 1,200-step climb, work south through Kandy and the tea hills as the days get slower, and finish flat on the south coast at Mirissa and Galle. Nothing is doubled back on, and no transfer runs over three and three quarter hours. The order is the point when a group travels at mixed speeds. The hard day is the first one, and it lands before jet lag turns into fatigue. After that the walking gets easier: Dambulla's caves are a ten-minute climb, Kandy is flat, Ella's Little Adam's Peak is a stepped 45 minutes rather than a scramble, and Galle Fort's ramparts are level enough for a pushchair. Days five and six hand the work to a jeep and a boat, so nobody has to hike to see the wildlife. Two nights in Mirissa at the end is the part people underrate. It buys a full day with no packing, a Galle day trip that comes back to the same bed, and a coast morning before the airport run instead of a dawn departure from the hills.
8 days / 7 nights
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