Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) is associate island nation south of Asian country within the Indian Ocean. Its numerous landscapes vary from timberland and arid plains to highlands and sandy beaches. It’s famous for its ancient Buddhist ruins, as well as the 5th-century bastion Sigiriya, with its palace and frescoes. town of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka's ancient capital, has several ruins qualitative analysis back quite 2,000 years.
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Arrival and transfer to Kandy. En route visit Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.
Overnight stay at – Kandy
Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage – set amongst the verdant hills of Kegalle is a unique orphanage, where the tiny tots weigh 60 kg or more. This is the Pinnewela Elephant Orphanage, the world's first andonly elephant orphanage established to feed, nurse and house young elephants lost or abandoned bytheir mothers. Other occupants are elephants displaced from their natural environs by developmentprojects or those found wounded. Visitors could see the baby elephants being fed milk from giganticfeeding bottles or bathed in the river which flows nearby – an unforgettable sight! Established in 1975, bythe Wildlife Department and National Zoological gardens which subsequently led to a breedingprogramme through which more than twenty five elephants have been born since 1984.
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After b-fast do a city tour including temple of the tooth relic / Gem museum/ botanical garden + gem shopIn the evening witness the cultural dance show.
Overnight stay at – Kandy
Royal Botanical Gardens -This botanical garden was first built as a pleasure garden by a Sinhala king and was expanded by the British. It is 147 acres in extent and provides an amazing variety of trees, plants and flowers Kandy – a lovely exotic city, the Hill Capital and last stronghold of the Sinhala Kings is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which retains an aura of grandeur, time has not affected. Encircled by hills, with a tranquillake in its centre, it is the site of the renowned temple that enshrines the Tooth Relic of the Buddha andthe Royal Botanical gardens – home to one of the world’s best collections of Orchids. A cultural sanctuarywhere many legends, traditions and folklore are still lovingly kept alive, Kandy and its satellite villages arethe centre of the islands handicraft industry (items of wood, brass & silver) exquisite silver or goldjewellery and precious gems of many varieties including the world’s best blue and star sapphires. Thehighlight of the city’s calendar is the EsalaPerahera, when a replica of the casket enclosing the Tooth istaken in procession for ten glittering nights in July/August by exotically costumed dancers, drummers andapproximately 100 Elephants.
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After Breakfast proceeds to Bentota, en route visit Turtle Hatchery Farm in Kosgoda. Then do a Madu river boat ride.
Optional – do water sports
Overnight stay at -Bentota
Bentota – situated on the south west coast, at the confluence of the sea and the Bentota river, the sun drenched location and its golden, palm-fringed beaches which border the warm, sparkling waters of theIndian Ocean made it a natural choice for development as the first tourist resort. Today it is known in SriLanka’s global tourist markets as a highly attractive holiday resort with a wide and varied choice ofdistinctive hotels to suit every taste and purse. Bentota has a complete range of tourist facilities, greatseafood and very popular water sports centres which provide boating, water skiing, jet skiing, snorkeling and wind surfingwhich provide boating, water skiing, jet skiing, snorkelling and wind surfing.
Madu River -which flows across Balapitiya (approx 80kms down south from Colombo) is one of the rarelyvisited and unspoiled attractions any nature lover can find in Sri Lanka. She boasts of having a cluster of64 small islands scattered along her path and the most of which are uninhabited and covered withmangroves. The smallest islet of the lot is called "Satha Paha Doowa" where there is a tiny shrine with astatue built in respect of the gods of Kataragama (Katharagama). According to folklore this islet had beenpurchased for five cents but some say the name has derived due to its shape of the five cent coin. Maduis certainly a placid and memorable place of interest to any nature lover who longs to witnessmesmerizing landscape of the nature. But over thrilled visitors are forewarned! - Madu River is also aknown den for crocodiles.
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After breakfast proceed to Colombo, do a city tour of Colombo.
Overnight stay at – Colombo
Colombo - like many capital cities in developing countries Colombo is fast changing its face. Almost overnight, skyscrapers arise from where old buildings once stood, yet in some parts, the old world charm is retained. A 100-year-old clock tower and several British built, colonial buildings are still to be seen inthe city. The Pettah bazaar – where one can shop for bargains, a Hindu and a Buddhist temple, residential areas where you find the stately homes of the affluent, the Colombo museum, the Bandaranaike memorial international conference hall – an outright gift to Sri Lanka from the people’s republic of china, the new parliament in Sri Jayawardenapura and the folk art center are some of the places of interest that one can visit to.
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Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to airport for departure.
| Sri Lanka | |||
| Rivendell Hotel – Kandy | |||
| Coco Royal beach hotel – Bentota | |||
| Sapphire Hotel – Colombo | |||