The Best of Sri Lanka Tour Package - 6 Nights 7 Days

01 / THE EXPERIENCE

Discover the journey

Srilanka: Few places have as many Unesco World Heritage Sites (eight) packed into such a small area. Sri Lanka's 2000-plus years of culture can be discovered at ancient sites where legendary temples boast beautiful details. Kandy: Kandy is located at the center of Sri Lanka and is generally recognized as the island nation's cultural capital, and was declared a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1988. It is Sri Lanka's second largest city located in the mountainous center of the island. A cooler climate and smaller size make it much more pleasant and accessible than Colombo. The city has a compact downtown area surrounded by a beautiful tropical rain forest hill country on all sides with exotic animals such as monkeys running around in the wild. The downtown area is really crowded and polluted by day, and filled with some of the world's most aggressive touts by night, but it is also a major shopping destination where all kinds of goods imaginable can be purchased at surprisingly low prices. There are also numerous bakeries, offering delicious local treats all over downtown. Overall Kandy is a great place to experience Sri Lankan culture and cuisine surrounded by a beautiful natural environment. Kandy is renowned for the great Kandy Esala Perahera, held over 10 days leading up to the Nikini poya (full moon) at the end of the month of Esala (July/August), but it has enough attractions to justify a visit at any time of year. Some of the Hill Country’s nicest boutique hotels nestle in the hills surrounding Kandy, and the city is a good base for exploring the underrated terrain of the nearby Knuckles Range. Nuwara Eliya: Nuwara Eliya is a city in the Hill Country of Sri Lanka. Its temperate climate gives the city a very different feel from other parts of the country and, along with the colonial architecture, has earned it the name 'Little England'. While most British visitors struggle to recognise modern England in Nuwara Eliya, the toy-town ambience does have a rose-tinted English country village feel to it, though it comes with a disorienting surrealist edge. Three-wheelers whiz past red telephone boxes. Water buffalo daubed in iridescent dye for the Tamil Thai Pongal festival mingle outside a pink, brick Victorian post office. A well-tended golf course morphs seamlessly into a rolling carpet of tea plantations. The dusty and bustling centre of town is a thoroughly Sri Lankan tangle, but scratch the surface a little to reveal colonial bungalows, well-tended hedgerows and pretty rose gardens. In earlier times, Nuwara Eliya (meaning ‘City of Light’) was the favoured cool-climate escape for the hard-working and hard-drinking English and Scottish pioneers of Sri Lanka’s tea industry. The town centre is small enough to walk around. A rainy-day, misty-mountain atmosphere blankets the town from November to February so don’t come expecting tropical climes. But during April’s spring release, the town is crowded with domestic holidaymakers enjoying horse racing and sports-car hill climbs, and celebrating the Sri Lankan New Year. Bentota: Bentota is a tourist attraction, with a local airport (Bentota River Airport) and a handful of world-class hotels. It is a destination for watersoprts. Bentota also delivers an ancient art of healing called Ayurveda. Bentota is famous for its toddy production, an alcoholic beverage made out of coconut nectar. It also has a turtle hatchery, located on Induruwa beach. Protected from noisy Galle Rd by the sluggish sweep of the Bentota Ganga, the ribbon of golden sand that makes up Bentota beach is a glorious holiday sun-and-fun playground. While it’s primarily dominated by big package hotels, it also has a number of smaller places catering to independent travellers. Colombo: Colombo (Sinhala: ????, Tamil: ????????) is the largest city and the financial and commercial capital of Sri Lanka.Colombo is a huge, sprawling city, which can be visited any time of year due to its tropical climate. The heat is often excruciating, and traffic and pollution intense. These combined and without careful planning Colombo can easily become a nightmarish experience for an average traveler. To avoid this, do not carry heavy luggage, do not plan to walk any significant distances and take measures to deal with the heat and/or rain, such as bringing ice water, sunglasses, plastic slippers, sunblock, umbrella etc. Although reclaiming its 19th-century moniker 'the garden city of the East' is unlikely, Colombo is rapidly emerging as a must-see stop in Sri Lanka. No longer just the sprawling city you have to endure on your way to the southern beaches, it has become a worthy destination in its own right.

02 / WHY GO

The memorable moments

Highlights

03 / YOUR ROUTE

Journey at a glance

Day 1: Arrive Colombo. On To Kandy — Land at Colombo airport. Complete airport formalities and claim baggage Transfer straight to Kandy En-route visit the Elephant Orphanage at Pinnawela - a home to 60+ Elephants found abandoned or orphaned in the wild. Also, accompany the elephants to a river close by to see them having their daily baths Arrive at Kandy and check-in at hotel Evening: Visit Temple of the Tooth Relic followed by a cultural show Overnight stay at hotel Day 2: Kandy — Breakfast at hotel Visit the Gem lapidary and the Royal Botanical Gardens in Peradeniya Overnight stay at hotel Day 3: Kandy - Nuwara Eliya — Breakfast at hotel and check-out Proceed to Nuwara Eliya. Enroute visit Tea plantations and factory Arrive at Nuwara Eliya and check-in at hotel Nuwara Eliya – Sri Lanka's premier hill resort with a fine bracing mountain climate, Nuwara Eliya is also the heart of Sri Lanka's tea country, producing some of the world’s best tea. The mountain slopes and valleys are a carpet of velvety green tea plantations, interspersed with gushing streams and tumbling waterfalls. Red or green roofed plantation bungalows, English country style homes and hotels with lovely flower gardens, a fine 18 hole golf course and a racecourse gives Nuwara Eliya a decidedly British character Overnight stay at hotel Day 4: Nuwara Eliya - Bentota — Breakfast at hotel and check-out See in and around Nuwara Eliya including Ashok Vatika and Sita Eliya Thereafter, transfer to Bentota Arrive at Bentota and check-in at hotel 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 the Indian Ocean made it a natural choice for development as the first tourist resort. Today it is known in Sri Lanka’s global tourist markets as a highly attractive holiday resort with a wide and varied choice of distinctive hotels to suit every taste and purse. Bentota has a complete range of tourist facilities, great seafood and very popular water sports centres which provide boating, water skiing, jet skiing, snorkelling and wind surfing Overnight stay at hotel Day 5: Bentota — Breakfast at hotel Day at leisure to explore Bentota beach and do water sports Overnight stay at hotel Day 6: — Bentota - Colombo Breakfast at hotel and check-out Transfer to Colombo Arrive at Colombo and check-in at hotel Proceed for Colombo city tour including old parliament, the residential areas and the BMICH (Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall), the fort, the Ceramics Corporation Showroom, Majestic City Shopping complex and ODEL unlimited dress bout Overnight stay at hotel Day 7: Colombo - Nepal — Breakfast at hotel 1100 hrs: Check-out of hotel On time transfer (4 hours before flight departure time) from hotel to airport Arrive at airport and complete formalities Proceed to board your return flight

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