Jaye-Best Tour Guide in Sri Lanka
Jaye is one of the kindest and sweetest persons who took genuine care for us during our 6 day trip. He is genuine, hardworking, reasonable and protective of his occupants. He drove the care very responsibly. In an event, he took advanced money for us, he made it a point to return it honestly without expecting anything in return. Thank you to Jaye for enriching our experience in Sri Lanka!
Wonderful Experience
Jaye was amazing. He went out of his way to ensure we had a comfortable trip. I would definitely visit the country again and would love to have Jaye drive with us.
Srilanka trip experience
Jaye is an excellent guide who helped us navigate through this beautiful country and reliably stayed with us
Excellent service, smooth driving, exceptional manners.
Jaye provided our family with excellent service; very smooth driving, generous sharing of local and cultural knowledge, and exceptional manners. He was warm, welcoming and very engaging. Thank you Jaye for a very pleasant day trip.
5 STAR - Highly recommend.
Highly recommend Jaye. We were a family of four (youngest 3 - oldest 10) visiting from Australia. Jaye provided a quality car seat, and safe, clean vehicle. He spoke very good English and it was a real pleasure chatting with him on our trip. He was a safe driver and helped us when needed with purchases and understanding culture. He is genuinely a very kind, educated and honest person. I wouldn’t hesitate to engage Jaye in being a tour guide/driver again.
Awesome Sri Lankan holiday with my family
Jaye was our driver for 13 days, he was 10/10. Knowledge and understanding of his country. Everything we asked for he supported us and more. The best driver and tour guide.
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Fab tour guide
Simply a first class tour guide and driver!!
Great experience!
Jaye was excellent! He took extra time to tell us about his beautiful country, stopped off at a waterfall and also bought Buffalo Curd for us to try! We would have loved him to drive us more! Highly recommend.
Highest recommendation for a wonderful guide, driver, and person.
Jaye is extraordinary. He is a safe, experienced, responsive, and reliable driver. He is a fantastic guide for learning about Sri Lankan culture and history. And he is a wonderful human being, full of wisdom, compassion, humor, insight, and countless interesting stories. We can’t imagine a better person to show us Sri Lanka, and we are grateful for our many interesting and memorable days with him. We give him our absolute highest recommendation. You will be in good hands with Jaye and have an excellent time!
Best experience!
Jaye has been our wonderful driver for 18 days in Sri-Lanka. Besides that he is a great guide with deep knowledge of the country, it's culture, believes and people. He showed us the most beautiful places in Sri-Lanka (both known and unknown). He is a very friendly, polite person and safe driver who wants to show everything about his country. Besides that he also has alot of connections for places to stay (from homestays to hotels) eat (very local to wine and dine) and most important the safari's and cultural sites. We even had the pleasure to eat with his family. All-in-all we highly recommend Jaye as a driver and tourguide for your vacation.
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Highly recommended guide Jaye
Jaye was our wonderful guide for 2 weeks during what is a difficult time for Sri Lankans. He organised an amazing cake for a special birthday and made sure everyone was always comfortable and happy. Our safari in Udawalawe, lunch at his families home and visits to cultural sites were a highlight of our holiday. We highly recommend Jaye as guide for your vacation.
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Trustworthy and nice
Jaye was our driver and tour guide from Nuwara Eliya to Mirissa with one day stop in Ella. Even though we only had one day he managed to show us the best places in Ella.
He is very safe driver, really nice and polite. We would definitely recommend him to those looking for a trustworthy driver around Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka highlights tour
Great driver and a very helpful person!
We've done with Jaya 3 day tour and his support was fantastic!
I highly recommend his services
Bartek from Poland
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TravelAround731Feb 21, 2020
6 Stars - Highly Recommended, Jaya is Fantastic
Jaya has to be one of the most genuine people I've ever met on all my travels. From the moment he picked us up, he couldn't have done anything more for us. We were so disappointed that we only had a few days with him and wish we had him for more!
Essentials - very safe driver, very comfortable car with AC and he shared with us some great stories about Sri Lankan history and culture. The recommendations he made were also very good. The buffalo curd and honey experience was delightful.
I will be recommending him to all my friends and family.
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Outstanding service
Jaye looked after my husband and I for 18 days during our trip around Sri Lanka. He is an extremely polite and kind man for which nothing is too much trouble. His knowledge of politics and culture is extensive . He even took us to his home and cooked us a series of delicious curries! We could not recommend him highly enough. He is a very safe driver, 100% honest and reliable and very knowledgable. We will not hesitate to use him again when we return and cannot recommend him highly enough.
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A Joyous time with Jaye
My wife and I would strongly recommend any tourist to use the excellent driving services of wonderful "Jaye". Not only is he a very safe and sensible driver but he is full of very interesting information about Sri Lanka, its people, history, religions and culture. My wife and I employed Jaye to drive us from Ella to Uda Walawe National Park and back to Ella and on another day he drove us from Ella to Kataragama. Jaye does not interrupt any journey to stop at shops you really do not want to see but he does a very professional job doing what you, the client wants to do. Jaye's English is perfect, his manners impeccable and he is always very smartly dressed and he is always on time. He is great for day jobs or indeed holiday road trips of up to 14 days, driving anywhere in the country, having picked you up first at Colombo Banderanyake Airport. My wife and I strongly recommend Jaye Wannaku to anyone who wants a very good and safe driver. Andrew Bruce, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, U.K.
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Reliable and friendly drive and guide
Jaye is honest and reliable driver and guide. He took us around to see the beautiful views of Ella and beaches in Mirissa. He tired his best to fulfill our ad hoc requests and made our trip a memorable one. Highly recommend Jaye to those looking for a trustworthy driver in Sri Lanka.
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I highly recommend Jaye. Extremely reliable, very knowledgeable, excellent English.
I've been to Sri Lanka twice now and it's one of my favourite countries, on both visits I have used Jaye! I am planning a surf trip in Jan 2020 and I will definitely be rebooking with him for the two weeks. He has taken me to some of the most amazing places in Sri Lanka, off the main tourist routes (esp. surfing), his local knowledge, especially the culture, politics, ancient philosophies (I'm a yoga teacher!) is fascinating. Very easy to communicate with, promptly responds to emails. Highly recommend Jaye.
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Top driver! Jaye is knowledgeable and safe, an honest and proud Sri Lankan with excellent English.
Jaye has lead 3 trips for me in Sri Lanka with groups of up to 16 people. He arranged everything, provided the best routes, fabulous stops off the beaten track that only locals know, organised a bus for my group. His historical and political knowledge is outstanding with excellent English spoken. He is a very honest and kind man who truly cares about your stay in his country. Jaye is my top driver for Sri Lanka, I cannot recommend him highly enough!
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Friendly and Professional
We were very fortunate to find Jaye. His experience in Sri Lanka and safe driving skills made our holiday here very enjoyable.
Jaye has been driving visitors around his country for many years, his sense of humour and knowledge of the history made for a very special tour.
We looked long and hard to find a driver that suited our needs and he delivered. Nothing is too much trouble, advice about things to do in all the places we visited especially in the evenings when he wasn’t with us were invaluable.
We arranged all our own accommodation but he will sort this out for you if needed. He will arrange an itinerary visiting all the main tourist attractions or lesser known destinations to suit everyones needs.
Collection and return to the airport is no problem, best of all he is very reasonably priced compared to similar drivers.
We highly recommend Jaye.
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