Sri Lanka

Arrive by (flt no) at (00hrs). Please clear immigration & visa formalities, collect your baggage and proceed to the arrival lounge through the channel if you do not have goods to be declared to customs. The Representative will page you by your name. Thereafter you will be assisted to the Car park / Coach Park to begin you journey as per the booked itinerary.

Proceed to Kandy. En route visit the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.

Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage – App. 55 miles from Colombo, off the Colombo – Kandy Road is Pinnawala, where an orphanage was started in 1975 to house the abandoned and the wounded elephants. The number of elephants has increased to more than 65 now; including Baby Elephants brought from various parts, as well as some of the more than 25 babies born, as a result of the captive breeding programme. The best time to visit is the feeding time from 0930-1000 hrs and 1330-1400 hrs and the bathing time from 1000-1030 hrs and 1400-1430 hrs when all the elephants are taken to the river close by.

Then visit the Herbal Spice Garden and have a free head massage.

Overnight stay at the Kandy hotel.

After breakfast at the Hotel, go for a Kandy City Tour. (Temple of tooth + Museum / Botanical gardens + Sight-seeing)

Kandy – The hill capital, venue of the annual Perahera. The last stronghold of the Sinhala Kings was finally ceded to the British in 1815. Kandy is an example of Buddhism’s influence in Sri Lanka today. Temple shrines and monasteries keeping Buddhist traditions alive are everywhere.

Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic- Ever since 4th Century A.D, when the Buddha’s Tooth was brought to Sri Lanka hidden from sacrilegious hands in an Orissan princess’ hair, the Relic has grown in repute and holiness in Sri Lanka and throughout the Buddhist world. It is considered Sri Lanka’s most prized possession.

Royal Botanical Gardens – 147 acres in extent: started in 1374 as a pleasure garden of the King’s of Kandy. There are more than 5000 species of trees and plants. Some are endemic as well as flora from the tropical world. Spice garden and Orchid House are popular with Tourists.

Then do some shopping at Kandy city. In the evening, witness the Kandy Cultural Dance Performance.

Overnight stay at Kandy hotel

After breakfast, proceed to Nuwara Eliya. En route visit Hanuman Temple, Ramboda waterfall & the tea factory & plantation.

Sri Baktha Hanuman Temple- According to the ancient stories, Ramboda is an area, where the forces of Rama’s gather to fight against King Ravana. This temple was built by the Chinmaya mission of Sri Lanka and dedicated to Hanuman. This temple houses a 16 Feel height statue of Hanuman.

Ramboda Falls- It is 109 m (358 ft) high and 11 highest waterfall in Sri Lanka and 729th highest waterfall in the world. It is situated in the Pussellawa area, on the A5 highway at Ramboda Pass. It is formed by Panna Oya which is a tributary of Kothmale Oya. The altitude of the falls is 945 m (3,100 ft) above sea level.

Arrive at Nuwara Eliya and go for a City Tour. (Catholic Church – 18-hole golf course – Old Post office – Strawberry farm – Seetha Amman temple (Ashok vatika) – Gregory Lake (Without Activities)

Optional: Victoria Park.

Overnight stay at Nuwara Eliya hotel.

After breakfast at the Hotel, Leave for Bentota.

Along the way visit the St. Clair’s Falls & Devon Falls Optional Kithulgala white water rafting.

Spend the rest of the day leisurely.

Overnight stay at Bentota Hotel

After breakfast leave to.

Madu Ganga for a Boat Ride – The estuary of the Madu Ganga River is a complex coastal ecosystem of mangroves and islands. It may be one of the last remaining tracts of pristine mangrove forests in Sri Lanka. A boat trip is a wonderful way of seeing some of the hundreds of species of plants and animals – monkeys eat fruit in the trees, a water monitor lizard glides slowly through the water, and cormorants, egrets and kingfishers wait patiently on the banks, eyeing the water for prey. There are around 64 islands in the river and lagoon, from a tiny speck housing a deserted shrine to one housing 250 families connected to the mainland with a very long footbridge. You can visit an island with a Buddhist monastery, where the friendly young monks will show you a 150-year-old book made of palm leaves and how they cook on cinnamon wood on an open fire. The main occupations of the local inhabitants are producing cinnamon and prawn fishing – if you take the trip in the evening, you will see the fishermen in their canoes lighting lanterns to attract the shellfish into their traps.

Turtle Hatchery – Kosgoda is famous for its sea turtle conservation project operated by the Wild Life Protection Society of Sri Lanka. It was established in 1988 to protect Sri Lanka’s turtles from extinction. Since then it has released about 3.5 million baby turtles into the wild. The hatchery pays fishermen for eggs that they collect at night along the long sandy beach. Although October to April is the main laying season, some eggs (mostly green turtles) can be found at Kosgoda throughout the year. The hatchery buries the eggs in sand, and when they hatch around 50 days later the baby turtles are released into the sea at night. Only about one in 1,000 turtles survive to maturity. Kosgoda turtle hatchery also has tanks for injured or disabled turtles, including albino turtles that would not survive in the wild.

Optional Water sport Activities – Banana ride / Jet Sky / Tube ride / 45 min river boat ride.

Arrive at Colombo city and go for a city tour (Independence Square / Galle face green / Petta / Dutch Church / Gangarama temple / Lotus Pond theatre / Old parliament / Clock tower) + Shopping.

Overnight stay at Colombo Hotel.

After breakfast at the hotel proceed to the airport for your scheduled flight with so much to remember and cherish one day!

Have a safe flight!

Hotel check-in time 1400 hours/ Check-out time 1200 hours.