| DAY
01 - AIRPORT/ KANDY.
Arrive
at Bandaranaike International Airport, met by "Don
Voyage" Representatives and transfer to a Hotel in
Kandy.
Detailed Itinerary
En route visit Elephant Orphanage Pinnawala
ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE
Pinnawala, the foster – home of elephants of different age and size
feeding, bathing, playing together and even mating. These have been found
injured or left abandoned in the wilderness. There are even little baby
calves born in captivity.
SPICE
GARDEN
Visit a spice garden at mavanella which grows spices and herbs used for
Sri Lankan cuisine and medication. Spices of Sri Lanka attracted the early
sea faring merchants who made the long voyages to purchase this precious
merchandise.
Evening
Kandy Perehera
KANDY PERAHERA - (ESALA PERAHERA)
The significance of this great event is to invoke blessings of the gods
to give the farmers rain to cultivate their crops. This ritual is performed
by carrying the sacred tooth relic of the Budda through the city streets
which is done with great ceremony.
Overnight
stay at Hotel Suisse – Kandy.
DAY
02 : KANDY.
After Breakfast, leave for Kandy City Tour and Shopping.
BOTANICAL
GARDEN
Next visit the Botanical Garden Peradeniya. Which was a pleasure garden
of a Kandyan King of the 16th Century and later made in to a Botanical
Garden during the British regime
P.m.
p.m. visit art and craft centre and Gem Bureau where you will be shown
a documentary film on how Sri Lankan Gem mining is traditionally done.
Enjoy
a typical Sri Lankan Cultural Show of Drumming Dancing music and fire
walking.
TEMPLE
OF THE TOOTH RELIC
Visit the Temple of the sacred tooth relic of the Buddha. This temple,
the most important one for The Sri Lankan Buddhists was built in the 16th
Century A.D. solely for the purpose of housing the tooth relic.
Sight
seeing of kandy including Upper Lake Drive.
Evening
KANDY PERAHERA - (ESALA PERAHERA)
Overnight stay at Hotel Suisse – Kandy.
DAY 03 :KANDY / HILL COUNTRY.
After
Breakfast leave for Nuwara Eliya.
Nuwara
Eliya, the misty city is located over 6000 feet above sea level.
The
drive will be through refreshing Tea Plantations covering the hills like
carpets and cascading waterfalls to mesmerize you.
Visit a Tea Plantation and a Tea Factory en route. Sri Lanka being famous
for its “Ceylon Tea” adding cheer to many the world over for
more than a century.
Arrive
in Nuwara Eliya to be greeted by the fresh wintry atmosphere, the cottage
type bungalows
and the colonial air. ( Nuwara Eliya is also known as “Little England”)
City
Tour And Shopping:
Overnight stay at Windsor Hotel – Nuwara Eliya.
DAY
04 : NUWARA ELIYA / COLOMBO
Breakfast and leave Colombo.
En
route visit film site of Bridge on the river Kwaii, view two water falls
Devon Fall and St. Clairs Fall.
p.m.
City Tour and Shopping
CITY
TOUR AND SHOPPING
The City Tour will include places of Tourist interest such as Old parliament,
Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, Buddhist Hindu Temple
and Town Hall.
Shopping
at Odel, House of Fashion, Bare foot and etc. at Colombo
Overnight
stay at Grand Oriental Hotel – Colombo.
DAY
05 : COLOMBO / AIRPORT. 01 HOUR (80 KM)
Breakfast at Hotel. Leave for Airport for Departure
Tour
end ……..with Don Voyage….
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