| DAY
01 - AIRPORT/ COLOMBO.
Arrive
at Bandaranaike International Airport, met by "Don Voyage" Representatives
and transfer to Hotel in Colombo.
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 Hotel in Colombo.
DAY
02: COLOMBO / NUWARA ELIYA
Breakfast at Hotel. Leave for Nuwara Eliya via Kithulgala.
En
route visit film site of Bridge on the river Kwaii, view two waterfalls
Devon Fall and St. Clairs Fall.
Proceed
to 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.
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
Leave for Sight Seeing of Nuwara Eliya.
Overnight
stay at Hotel in Nuwara Eliya.
DAY
03 : NUWARA ELIYA /KANDY
Breakfast at Hotel. Leave for Kandy.
En
route visit the Tea Factory.
TEA
FACTORY
Visit a Tea Plantation and a Tea Factory en route. Sri Lanka being famous
for its “Ceylon Tea” has added cheer to many the world over
for more than a century.
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 in – Kandy.
DAY
04 : KANDY
Breakfast at Hotel. Leave for 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.
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
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 in – Kandy.
DAY 05 :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 in Sigiriya
DAY
06 : SIGIRIYA / POLLONNARUWA
Breakfast at Hotel. Leave for Pollonnaruwa.
POLLONNARUWA
2nd Capital of Sri Lanka, City Tour including visits to the Gal Vihara
with its majestic rock statues of the Buddha in standing, reclining and
seated forms, the Thuparamaya, the princes’ pond, Lankathilaka Viharaya
and the relic houses of Watadageya, Hatadageya and the Atadageya.
Next
visit the National Park at Minneriya.
SAFARI MINNERIYA NATIONAL PARK
Visit Ruhunu National Park at Yala. This will include a Safari tour by
jeep with a jungle tracker, where you can see animals in the Jungle; including
elephants , Bears, Wild boar, Dear, Buffalo, Monkeys and many other animals
if you are lucky, leopards too. You also could see different types of
birds. It’s a small experience for bird watch lovers.
Overnight
stay at Hotel in Sigiriya.
DAY
07 : 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.
Next
City tour of Negombo
CITY
TOUR NEGOMBO
Visit the Fishing Village, The Old Dutch fish market, the old protestant
Church overlooking the Negombo Lagoon, The remains of the Old Dutch fortress
and the Hamilton canal a masterpiece of the Dutch built for the purpose
of transporting goods on rafts.
Overnight
stay at Negombo Hotel.
DAY
08 : NEGOMBO / AIRPORT.
Breakfast at Hotel. Leave for Airport for Departure
Tour
end ……..with Don Voyage….
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