Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) is associate island nation south of Asian country within the Indian Ocean. Its numerous landscapes vary from timberland and arid plains to highlands and sandy beaches. It’s famous for its ancient Buddhist ruins, as well as the 5th-century bastion Sigiriya, with its palace and frescoes. town of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka's ancient capital, has several ruins qualitative analysis back quite 2,000 years.
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Arrival and transfer to Kandy. En route visit Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.
Overnight stay at – Kandy
Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage – set amongst the verdant hills of Kegalle is a unique orphanage,
where the tiny tots weigh 60 kg or more. This is the Pinnewela Elephant Orphanage, the world's first andonly elephant orphanage established to feed, nurse and house young elephants lost or abandoned bytheir mothers. Other occupants are elephants displaced from their natural environs by developmentprojects or those found wounded. Visitors could see the baby elephants being fed milk from giganticfeeding bottles or bathed in the river which flows nearby – an unforgettable sight! Established in1975, bythe Wildlife Department and National Zoological gardens which subsequently led to a breedingprogramme through which more than twenty five elephants have been born since 1984.
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After b-fast do a city tour including temple of the tooth relic / Gem museum/ botanical garden + gem shopIn the evening witness the cultural dance show.
Overnight stay at – Kandy
Royal Botanical Gardens -This botanical garden was first built as a pleasure garden by a Sinhala king and was expanded by the British. It is 147 acres in extent and provides an amazing variety of trees, plants and flowers Kandy – a lovely exotic city, the Hill Capital and last stronghold of the Sinhala Kings is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which retains an aura of grandeur, time has not affected. Encircled by hills, with a tranquillake in its centre, it is the site of the renowned temple that enshrines the Tooth Relic of the Buddha andthe Royal Botanical gardens – home to one of the world’s best collections of Orchids. A cultural sanctuarywhere many legends, traditions and folklore are still lovingly kept alive, Kandy and its satellite villages arethe centre of the islands handicraft industry (items of wood, brass & silver) exquisite silver or goldjewellery and precious gems of many varieties including the world’s best blue and star sapphires. Thehighlight of the city’s calendar is the EsalaPerahera, when a replica of the casket enclosing the Tooth istaken in procession for ten glittering nights in July/August by exotically costumed dancers, drummers andapproximately 100 Elephants.
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After breakfast proceed to Colombo, do a city tour of Colombo.
Overnight stay at – Colombo
Colombo - like many capital cities in developing countries Colombo is fast changing its face. Almost overnight, skyscrapers arise from where old buildings once stood, yet in some parts, the old world charmis retained. A 100-year-old clock tower and several British built, colonial buildings are still to be seen inthe city. The Pettah bazaar – where one can shop for bargains, a Hindu and a Buddhist temple,residential areas where you find the stately homes of the affluent, the Colombo museum, the Bandaranaike memorial international conference hall – an outright gift to Sri Lanka from the people’s republic of china, the new parliament in Sri Jayawardenapura and the folk art center are some of the places of interest that one can visit to.
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After b-fast proceed to airport for departure.
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| Rivendell Hotel – Kandy | |||
| Sapphire Hotel – Colombo | |||