| Day 01
Airport / Colombo – Hotel Taj Samudra * * * * *
AMArrival at the Bandaranaike International Airport. Welcome and assistance upon arrival and transfer to the hotel in Colombo. Rest of the morning at leisure at the hotel.
PMIn the afternoon visit the City of Colombo. Return to hotel for dinner and overnight. Day 02
Colombo / Dambulla / Habarana – The Lodge Habarana * * * *
AMAfter breakfast, checkout from the hotel and proceed to Dambulla. Visit the Rock Caved Golden Temple of Dambulla, which is famous for its 01st Century BC cave complex and its vast area of mural painted on the surface of the rock. It is also known for its large number of statues of Lord Buddha carved out of the living rock.
PMAfter the visit, proceed to Habarana and check in at the hotel for dinner and overnight stay. Day 03
Habarana / Polonnaruwa / Sigiriya / Habarana - The Lodge Habarana * * * *
AMAfter breakfast, proceed to visit Polonnaruwa, the medieval capital of ancient Ceylon. The city of Polonnaruwa was the second capital of Ceylon, with its comparatively brief history with over a dozen rulers. Visit the sites where once seven storey castles and temples were situated.
PMReturn to hotel. Afternoon at leisure at the hotel. In the late afternoon, visit Sigiriya, a massive rock fortress rising 183 meters above the surrounding green scrub jungle, just declared a world heritage site, is perhaps the most memorable place for visitors to Sri Lanka. The site was built under the orders of the paranoid king Kasyapa. The well-planned complex included caved temples, bathing pools, lovely ponds and Asia’s oldest surviving landscaped gardens. Today Sigiriya is famous for its frescoes painted in the pocket of the rock. The “Lion Stairway”, the “Mirror Wall” and the “Water Gardens” are its other highlights. Climb to the summit of the rock to view the ruins of the monastic complex.
Return to hotel for dinner and overnight stay. Day 04
Habarana / Matale / Kandy – Mahaweli Reach Hotel * * * * *
AMAfter breakfast, checkout from the hotel and proceed to Kandy. En route a brief stop at Matale to visit a spice garden and a batik factory.
PMProceed to Kandy and visit the city and the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic of Lord Buddha. In the evening view a cultural show featuring traditional dance performance.
Check in at the hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 05 Kandy / Pinnawela / Peradeniya / Kandy– Mahaweli Reach Hotel * * * * *
AMAfter breakfast, proceed to visit the elephant orphanage at Pinnawela. It is an
orphanage for baby elephants set up by the Department of National Zoological
Gardens. The Orphanage was established to feed, nurse, and house young
elephants found abandoned by their mothers. Other inmates are those found
displaced from their natural environs by development projects or those found
wounded.
PMReturn to Kandy. En route, visit the Royal Botanical Gardens of Peradeniya. The
Royal Botanical Garden at Peradeniya were established in 1821 and now covers
140 acres, snuggled in a loop in the Mahaweli River, the longest river in Sri Lanka.
Its primary purpose was the testing and acclimatizing of plants for commercial use
in Sri Lanka. Today the Gardens have one largest collections of flora from sub
tropical climates around the world. Return to hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 06
Kandy / Nuwara Eliya – Grand Hotel (Colonial)
AMAfter breakfast, checkout from the hotel and proceed to Nuwara Eliya. En route
visit a tea plantation and a tea factory.
PMArrive in Nuwara Eliya and visit the city. Check in at the hotel for dinner and
overnight stay. Day 07
Nuwara Eliya / Kithulgala / Kalutara – Royal Palms Beach Hotel * * * * *
AMAfter breakfast, checkout from the hotel and proceed to Kithulgala, the site where
the famous award winning film “The Bridge over the River Kwai” was filmed.
Today, it is the site for the thrilling water sport White Water Rafting.
PMProceed to Kalutara. Arrive at the hotel for dinner and overnight stay. Day 08
Kalutara / Airport
AM Checkout from the hotel and continue to the airport in time for the departure flight.
Please note that you have to be at the airport 03 hours before the actual departure
hour. |
