1. Kayaking
Enjoy Kayaking on the lake Kandalama or Hiriwadunna lake, which is a delightful way to explore the scenery around you and take in the beauty of your surrounding at your own place.
2. Bird Watching
For bird watching, you have to start early. I recommend you to start with breakfast. Around Dambulla, you can see 29 species of birds such as Peafowl, Ceylon jungle fowl [National Bird of Sri Lanka] Black-headed Orioles, Kingfishers, Egrets, Herons, Raptors, Bee eaters.. etc.......
As well as you can see 36 species of Butterflies and 21 species of mammals.
3. Village Tour
This village tour is one of the most enjoyable activities in this area. Tour takes 1 to 2 hours. Integral to village life is the Bullock cart - the most common means to transport in pre-automobile Sri Lanka. Used for carrying goods, a bullock cart is pulled by two oxen and guided by a "driver". Take a somewhat bumpy bullock cart ride through idyllic rural village vistas.
The cart reaches to the lake and it's time to paddle the boat in the lake. this tour takes the visitor on a canoe to Sri Lankan village.
Traditional Village house
Traditional village life is extremely different from life in crowded cities. You may see a single wattle and daub mud hut, a raised dais as a look out post for elephants and the large fields of crops with no other houses in sight. Life in these villages is leisurely and no one rushes around answering cell phones or punching emails into an iPhone or Blackberry. Sri Lankan villages are extremely sociable and it is here, that you will experience to its fullest, the famed Sri Lankan hospitality. You may have some typical Sri Lankan sweets or lunch and row your boat back to the road.
4. Hot Air Baloon Ride
Hot air ballooning in Sri Lanka allows the visitor a bird's eye view of the island's spectacular vistas. Take a hot air balloon ride from Dambulla, across the Cultural Triangle and see the splendour of the lion Rock, Dambulla caves, the dense expanses of monsoon forest and the stunning reservoirs built in ancient times that hold rain water, used to irrigate paddy fields and vegetable plots. [Time Duration 2.5 hours and you should leave from your hotel at-least 5.30 a.m.]