Sirilak Spice and Herbal Botanical Garden

Great place to visit

We stopped here as part of our honeymoon tour around Sri Lanka. Although only a brief visit we had a great time with our guide Jaya. Entry is free and the herbs growing here are extensive and each one...

Informative and friendly

Quiet and small location, friendly and well-informed guide. No pressure. Good fun. We had pulled into another option but had lots of coaches and lots of people and a queue.

Dont get pressured into buying anything - quite an unpleasant con

Interesting tour round the spice and herb garden, but soon became apparent that this is a shoddy high pressure exercise to sell poorly packaged, very expensive, and unathenticated bottles of produce. ...

Sirilak Spice & Herbal Tour

This place was a wonderful little stop on our tour. We had an amazing and funny guide named Jaya that walked us around the garden telling us so many interesting things about the plants and herbs.

Hard selling tactics

We should have read the reviews before stopping here as we too were subject to the very hard selling tactics. We have found that virtually everyone in Sri Lanka to be pleasant and trusting which we ob...