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Day
01: ARRIVE COLOMBO-KANDY
Arrive in Sri Lanka. You will be met by our representative and
transferred to Kandy.
Sightseeing: Kandy-City Tour
Dinner & Overnight stay at Kandy
Day
02: KANDY-NUWARA ELIYA-KANDY
Breakfast, Enroute Sightseeing: Royal Botanical Gardens
Sightseeing: Excursion to Nuwara Eliya, Also visit Hakgala Gardens
& Seethaeliya.
Dinner & Overnight stay at Kandy
Day
03: KANDY-NEGOMBO
Breakfast, Sightseeing: Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage
Afternoon Sightseeing: City tour of Colombo
Thereafter leave for Negombo.
Overnight stay at Negombo
Day
04: DEPART COLOMBO
Transfer from Hotel to Airport by Coach or Transfer to the preferred
Beach Resort
Sight
Seeing Description:
• Kandy-City Tour (SNS / SS /LK / KAN / 291):
Afternoon commence city tour of Kandy, including Upper
Lake Drive, Market Square and the Temple of the Sacred Tooth
Relic. Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic - ever since 4th Century
A.D, when the Buddha’s Tooth was brought to Sri Lanka hidden
from sacrilegious hands in an Orissan princess hair, the Relic
has grown in repute and holiness in Sri Lanka and throughout
the Buddhist world. It is considered Sri Lankas most prized
possession. Evening view a cultural show featuring various dance
types of Sri Lanka.
• Royal
Botanical Gardens (SNS / SS /LK / KAN / 292):
After breakfast visit * Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya,
Sixty Seven hectares of exquisite beauty and botanical treasurers
containing more than 4000 species, this is haven not only for
Scientists but to every nature lover as well.
• Excursion
to Nuwara Eliya (SNS / SS /LK / NUW / 293):
* Hakgala Botanical Gardens - Four miles south east of Nuwara
Eliya is another prominent peak, Hakgala. At its foot lie the
Hakgala Botanical Gardens, and beyond, the Hakgala Strict Natural
Reserve. The gardens are smaller and less exotic than those
at Peradeniya, but at 5,600 feet (1,707 meters) elevation the
species of flora quite different. Opened as an experimental
cinchona plantation (for production of the malaria antidote
quinine) in 1860, the pride of the gardens is now roses and
ferns. Seethaeliya – the little Kovil dedicated to Seetha with
statue of Ramah, Lakshmana and Hanuman.
• Pinnawela
Elephant Orphanage (SNS / SS /SL / COL / 294):
Started in 1975 to house the abandoned and the wounded, the
orphanage has grown to be a big family today. A unique experience
never to be missed.
• City
tour of Colombo (SNS / SS /SL / COL / 295):
Colombo a drive through the city taking you to the busy commercial
areas as well as the tree-lined residential, Cinnamon Gardens.
Visit Fort, the former British administrative center and military
garrison, Sea Street - the Goldsmiths quarters in the heart
of Pettah, the Bazaar area, where is also a Hindu Temple with
elaborate stone carvings, and the Dutch Church of Wolfendhal
dating back to 1749. The historic Dawatagaha Mosque and the
former Eye Hospital are two buildings in Cinnamon Gardens worth
looking at. Also visit the BMICH, see the replica of Avukana
Buddha and the Independence Square.
Kandy
- the hill capital. Venue of the annual Perahera. The
last stronghold of the Sinhala Kings was finally ceded to the
British in 1815. Kandy is an example of the Buddhism’s influence
in Sri Lanka today. Temple’s shrines and monasteries keeping
alive Buddhist traditions are everywhere
Nuwara
Eliya - The ‘Little England’ of Sri Lanka, is set against
beautiful backdrops of Mountains, Valleys, Waterfalls and Tea
Plantations. It is supposed to be one of the coldest places
on the island, but is really just like an England spring day
although the temperature does drop at night.
All around Nuwara Eliya you will see evidence of the British
influence. Houses are like country cottages or Queen Ann style
mansions.
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