| 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 / SIGIRIYA
After Breakfast leave for Sigiriya.
En
route visit the Spice Garden.
SPICE GARDEN
Visit a spice garden at Matale 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.
P.m.
visit Sigiriya Rock Fortress.
SIGIRIYA ROCK FORTRESS
Which contains beautiful frescoes of heavenly maidens with flowers and
fruit baskets and a palace garden with an intricate irrigation system
- Sigiriya is called the 08th Wonder of the World. This was the Royal
Citadel of King Kasyapa who ruled in the 5th Century A.D.
Dinner
& Overnight stay at Hotel Sigiriya - Sigiriya
DAY
04 : SIGIRIYA / COLOMBO
Breakfast and leave Colombo.
En
route visit the Cave Temples of Dambulla,
CAVE TEMPLE DAMBULLA.
which contains more than 150 Statues of the Buddha. This was where a king
of the 1st Century B.C. took refuge and latter converted them into a monastery.
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.
Breakfast at Hotel. Leave for Airport for Departure
Tour
end ……..with Don Voyage….
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