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Villa Tour

TRAVEL
IN STYLE

YALA NATIONL PARK

SIGIRIYA

KANDY

HILL COUNTRY

Travel in Style – 09 Nights / 10 Days

Overnight at The Wallawwa (Garden Suite), Negombo on Bed & Breakfast

Travel Time – Approx. 30 min / 15 kms

Day 1
Airport / Negombo

On arrival at Colombo International Airport walk approximately 125 m to the immigration control. Keep your arrival card ready to present to the immigration officials. Passing immigration you will go through the duty free shops and go down stairs or you can use the elevator to go to the baggage collection. Thereafter use the exit for foreign nationals.

 

 

At the arrival lounge, our representative will page you with your name and warmly welcome you to Sri Lanka. Following a brief introduction you will be transferred to the hotel in Negombo / Minuwangoda.

Check into hotel and Evening at leisure.

Overnight at Kalundewa Retreat (Deluxe Bunaglow), Dambulla on Half Board

Travel Time – Approx. 4hrs / 155 kms

Day 2
Negombo/Sigiriya

Morning leave for Sigiriya. On the way visit Dambulla rock cave temples, built by king Walagambahu in the 1st century B.C. and it is a World Heritage Site.  Dambulla cave complex is the largest and best preserved cave temple complex in Sri Lanka and the most impressive of Sri Lanka's cave temples.  The complex of five caves with over 2000 sq. meters of painted walls and ceilings is the largest area of paintings found in the world.

It contains over 150 images of the Buddha of which the largest is the colossal figure of the Buddha carved out of rock and spanning 14 meters. Besides the unbelievable craftsmanship, the temple has so much serenity, calmness and peace. The rock of Dambulla cave complex towers 160m over the surrounding plains and holds more than 80 documented caves. Major tourist attractions are spread over 5 caves, containing paintings and statues related to Lord Buddha and his life.

Check – in hotel and relax

Overnight at Kalundewa Retreat (Deluxe Bunaglow), Dambulla on Half Board

Day 3
Sigiriya

After breakfast, climb the 5th century Sigiriya rock fortress - One of the wonders of the ancient world. This is a world heritage site, built by King Kashyapa (477-495 AD) who had reverted his fortress to an ecological wonder by having Royal Pleasure Gardens, Water Gardens, Fountain Gardens and Boulder Gardens made inside the inner city as well as at the palace premises on the Rock summit. The 'Lion Rock' is a citadel of unusual beauty rising 200 meters from the scrub jungle. The rock was the innermost stronghold of the 70 hectare fortified town. A moat, rampart, and extensive gardens including the renowned water gardens ring the base of the rock. Visit the world-renowned frescoes of the 'Heavenly Maidens' or Frescoes of Damsels of Sigiriya, which are in a sheltered pocket of the rock approached by a spiral stairway on the Western Rock face cavity about 100 meters high from the rock base. These frescoes are painted in earth pigments on plaster. Another interesting construction is the Mirror Wall, which is covered with graffiti from the 7th to the 10th centuries AD.

Coming along the path of the mirror wall, one finds the Lion Paw Terrace or Platform. Through the Lion's paw stairway, the summit can be reached taking the iron stairway built on to the rock face. On the summit are the remains of the Palace building foundations and few ponds on an area of about 3 acres of rock summit.

Thereafter, proceed to Polonnaruwa and commence a guided sightseeing tour of Polonnaruwa. The Medieval Kingdom from the 11th to the 13th century. Ethnic harmony prevailed between the Sinhalese and the Tamils during this period. Buddhist and Hindu Temples located in the same complex and many other ruins symbolizes this fact.  The Palaces, Huge granite sculptures and the massive tanks and complex irrigation systems built by the Great Kings conveys the extent of development that existed in this middle history period.  Polonnaruwa has some of the most extensive monuments such as, Lankatilaka, the Gal Vihara and the Tivanka Pilimage. Within a rectangle of city walls stand palace buildings and clusters of dozens of dagobas, temples and various other religious buildings.

Return to hotel.

Overnight at Kandy House (Deluxe Room), Kandy on Bed & Breakfast

Travel Time – Approx. 2 ½ hrs /90 kms

Day 4
Sigiriya/Kandy

After breakfast, proceed to Kandy.

En route visit a spice garden in Matale. The area around Matale has a favorable climate for the cultivation of many varieties of spices. There are quite a few ‘Spice Gardens’, which are squarely aimed at tourists where a guided tour around a spice plantation usually followed by an invitation to purchase some raw spice products. For those interested in spices as used for Oriental cooking and curries in particular, this will be an opportunity to buy spice products from them.

Enjoy a special Sri Lankan lunch.

Continue the journey to Kandy. Kandy is the capital of the Central Province and Kandy District. It lies in the midst of hills in the Kandy Valley which crosses an area of tropical plantations, mainly tea. Kandy is one of the most scenic cities in Sri Lanka. It is of both an administrative and religious city.

Check into hotel and at leisure.

Evening visit the sacred temple of the Tooth & then witness a typical Kandyan cultural performance.

 

The Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha was brought to Sri Lanka in the 4th century. Often referred to as the palladium of the Sinhala kings, it was protected and venerated by the King who built a temple for it within the royal palace. The building which housed the Sacred Tooth Relic of Buddha was always considered an extremely import ant edifice and was thus located next to the palace. It became a building of great importance and was well decorated and carefully looked after.

 

Overnight at Kandy House (Deluxe Room), Kandy on Bed & Breakfast

Overnight at Kandy House (Deluxe Room), Kandy on Bed & Breakfast

Day 5
Kandy

After breakfast visit Royal Botanical Garden in Peradeniya.

About 64 km southwest of the town center at Peradeniya on the Colombo highway, close to the banks of the Mahaweli Ganga, these gorgeous gardens were first planted and laid out for King Kirthi Sri Rajasingha (1747 – 1780) and cover some 60 ha (150 acres) of trees, lawns and flowering shrubs, including a 20 ha (50 acre) arboretum of more than 10,000 trees.

After breakfast visit Royal Botanical Garden in Peradeniya.

About 64 km southwest of the town center at Peradeniya on the Colombo highway, close to the banks of the Mahaweli Ganga, these gorgeous gardens were first planted and laid out for King Kirthi Sri Rajasingha (1747 – 1780) and cover some 60 ha (150 acres) of trees, lawns and flowering shrubs, including a 20 ha (50 acre) arboretum of more than 10,000 trees.

Overnight at Tea Trails Bungalows (Luxury Room), Hatton on All Inclusive

ravel Time – Approx.2 ½ hrs / 85 kms

Day 6
Kandy/ Hill Country

After breakfast transfer to Peradeniya train station in time to enjoy a train journey to Hill country (Hatton train station) on the scenic mountain route.

Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hills offer breathtaking landscapes. A land of gurgling mountain streams and steep hillsides cloaked in luminous green tea, sweet-scented Cyprus and Eucalyptus trees.

Overnight at Tea Trails Bungalows (Luxury Room), Hatton on All Inclusive

Day 7
Hill Country

After breakfast visit a Tea Factory and Plantation

The essential Tea Trails experience (Except on Sundays, Poya days or special public holidays) - The Resident Tea Planter will show you first hand, the tea making process, starting from the fields where it all begins with the picking of “two leaves and a bud” to the factory where the all-important conversion to "made" black tea happens.

The tour ends with a tasting of different grades of this great brew.

Relax at the tea estate bungalow.

Overnight at Wild Coast (Cocoon Pool Suite), Yala on Half Board

Travel Time – Approx. 4 ½ hrs / 160 kms

Day 8
Hill Country / Yala

After breakfast proceed to Yala through Bandarawela and Sri Lanka’s beautiful Ella gap.

Ella is blessed with some of the most beautiful views, you could find in Sri Lanka. The Ella Gap is no secret destination for many. Ella is a stopover whenever on a longer journey, a short break for a refreshing cup of tea incorporated with images of a magnificent vista as a backdrop.

Check in to hotel.

Afternoon enjoy an exclusive private jeep safari at the Yala National Park.  Yala is the home for wild elephants, wild boars, wild buffaloes, leopards, bears, deer and crocodiles.  Large flocks of migratory and indigenous birds are also found here. It is famously known for its highest concentration of leopard in the world. The park is primarily shrub jungle with rocky out crops that dot the park, along with several salt and fresh water lagoons.

Overnight at Aditya Resort & Spa (Surya Suite), Galle on Bed & Breakfast

Travel Time – Approx. 3 hrs / 150 kms

Day 9
Yala / Galle

After breakfast leave for Galle.

Galle Fort & Ramparts enclosing a perfectly preserved old heritage town. This is a town situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka. Galle was known as Gimhathiththa before the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th century, when it was the main port on the island. Galle reached the height of its development in the 18th century, during the Dutch colonial period.

A walk round the ramparts and bastions is the customary method of appreciating the magnificence of its structure, and of gaining a perspective of the town it encloses. Using a little imagination, this fort, a testament in stone, can yield up a corridor into the past, a journey down which evokes images of earlier times.  Later, sample the narrow, busy streets that reveal much about the life of the inhabitants. Admire the Dutch houses, the Dutch Reformed Church and the restored Dutch gate.

Departure

Travel Time – Approx. 2 ½ hrs / 155 kms

Day 10
Galle / Airport

Transfer to Colombo International Airport to connect with the departure flight

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