Highlights

• Arrival in Sri Lanka / meet and greet.
• Proceed to Kandy (Approx. 3 hrs).
• Visit Temple of the Tooth and Kandy City Tour.
• Enjoy a cultural dance. performance in the evening.
• Check in to the Hotel and spend the rest of the day on leisure.

Kandy was once the capital of the venerated 16th-century Kandyan Kings, who fiercely and successfully defended their kingdom against Portuguese and Dutch invaders for 300 years. It eventually fell to the British in 1815, but the salubrious hill station has maintained its position as an epicentre of Sinhalese culture and the site of an important spiritual pilgrimage for Buddhists. Many of the legends, traditions, and folklore are still lovingly kept alive by the region’s friendly people. The city tour will include a visit to the local markets, lake area, and Kandy town.

Sri Dalada Maligawa or the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is a Buddhist temple in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is located in the royal palace complex which houses the relic of the tooth of Buddha. Since ancient times, the relic has played an important role in local politics because it is believed that whoever holds the relic holds the governance of the country. Kandy was the last capital of the Sri Lankan kings and is a UNESCO World Heritage site partly due to the temple.

Today Kandy is the centre of Buddhism, Arts, Crafts, Dancing, Music and Culture. Visitors can see these dance & music performances at the daily cultural performance which starts in the evening and runs for more than 1 hour. With more than 7 different dance performances, captivating drumming and the skills of the traditional musicians on display, this show will give you a great insight into traditional Sri Lankan culture.

Overnight stay in Kandy

Highlights

• After breakfast at the Hotel, you will proceed to Nuwara Eliya via Ramboda.
• Enroute you will stop at Ramboda (Approximately. 1.5 hrs) to witness the breath-taking view of Ramboda. Falls
• Then you will proceed to Nuwara Eliya (Approx. 01 hr).
• Check-in at the resort and spend the day at leisure.

Nuwara Eliya is a town in the Central Highlands and is known as “Little England” due to the nice climate and constructed to look like a typical village in England. The city has a better reflection of the colonial time, and some places are furnished according to the colonial period. Nuwara-Eliya is one of the main tea-manufacturing areas in the world.

Overnight stay in Nuwara Eliya

Highlights 

• Breakfast at the Hotel.
• Transfer to Yala (Approx. 05 hrs).
• Optional - Evening Safari at Yala National Park.
• Check-in at the hotel and spend some time at leisure.

Yala’s arid boulder-scattered parklands are dramatically different from the lush jungles and paddy fields that cover so much of the island. Spanning 100,000 hectares of dry thorny scrub and dusty glades, you could easily be in an African bushveld, right down to the long-thorn bushes. This background was so suited to viewing elephants, leopards, wild boar, spotted deer, crocodiles and jackals that the entrepreneurial South African Englebrecht, who was shipped over as a POW after the Boer War, rightfully instigated it as a sanctuary – Sri Lanka’s first – at the turn of the twentieth century. It’s now the oldest and most prominent of them all.

Overnight stay in Yala

Highlights 

• Breakfast at the Hotel
• Proceed to Bentota (Approx. 04 hrs).
• Check in to the hotel. Enjoy the day at leisure.

Overnight stay in Bentota

Highlights 

• Breakfast at the Hotel

• Enjoy Madu River Safari, Water Sports and Turtle hatchery Farm.

• Return to the hotel and spend the evening at leisure.

Sri Lanka is blessed with the luxury of having an extensive variety of sea creatures finding a home in the sea. The Turtle Hatchery is a homely place dedicated to the protection of sea turtles that visit Sri Lanka for nesting and are even wounded and sick around the island. Initially, the effort of the hatchery involves collecting eggs from the turtles on the beach and keeping them in the hatchery in order to hatch in safety. Finally, hatchlings are released to their habitat.

The Madu River is rich in biodiversity. It passes through the wet area of Galle District opening up into the large Madu Lagoon. The Madu River area is surrounded all swampy marshlands covered in mangrove forests. The Madu River Safari is a popular and unforgettable activity that lasts for over two hours and is a chance to travel through the mangrove forests and see the ecology.

Overnight stay in Bentota

Highlights

• Breakfast at the resort
• Proceed to the airport for departure (Approx. 1.5 hrs)

End of the Tour