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Last minute tour – 6 days/ 5 nights |
From 01/Nov/2006 to 31/Oct/2007
Day One
Colombo/ Sigiriya
Arrival at Colombo Airport and proceed to Sigiriya
.Evening at leisure, Dinner and Overnight Stay at Hotel
Sigiriya or similar category.
Day Two
Sigiriya/Polonnaruwa
After Breakfast leave for Sigiriya which is a world
heritage site built in the 05th century AD. This ancient
Kingdom is called "Lion Rock" The palace complex
consists in a water garden, innermost, and rampart on
completion proceed to Polonnaruwa ,in the evening do a
visit to Polonnaruwa which was the second capital of
Srilanka in 11th and 12th centuries AD which too a world
heritage site. You will see here famous Gal Viharaya
where four splendid statues of Lord Buddha, ruins of
Royal Palace. a lotus pond, on completion return to
Hotel Sigiriya or similar category for Dinner and
overnight stay.
Day Three
Sigiriya/ Dambulla/ Matale/ Kandy.
After breakfast proceed to Dambulla. Visit Dambulla rock
Temple, which was donated by King Walagambahu in the
first century BC to monks. This is the most impressive
of Srilanka's cave temples, is a complex of five caves
with over 2000sq meters of paintings and these caves
contains over 150 images of Buddha. There after proceed
to Kandy en route visit a spices garden in Matale in the
evening do a city tour of Kandy. Kandy was the last
capital of Srilanka. Many of the legends, customs.
Cloths, traditions are still you will see alive in this
zone, in the evening visit temple of the tooth relic and
there after witness a cultural show featuring
traditional Srilankan dancing. Dinner and overnight stay
at Hill Top Hotel or similar category
Day Four
Kandy/ Peradeniya.
After breakfast visit Royal Botanical Garden at
Peradeniya, The botanical Garden was first built as a
pleasure garden by a Singhala king and was expanded by
the British. It is 147 acres in extent. You will see
amazing varieties of trees, plants, flowers .evening at
leisure. Dinner and overnight stay at Hill Top Hotel or
similar
Day Five
Kandy/ Pinnewala / Colombo
After breakfast proceed to
Pinnewala. This
orphanage is the residence of baby elephants where you
will see baby elephants are cared and fed and their
daily life .On completion proceed to Colombo, in the
evening do a city tour of Colombo. Colombo is the
capital of Srilanka. The places of interest are Pettah
Bazaar where you can do shopping for a Bargains the old
parliament in fort, a Buddhist temple in Chinese
architecture in the middle of the famous Bayra lake and
a Hindu Temple, Colombo Museum, residential areas,
Dinner and overnight stay at Grand Oriental Hotel or in
a hotel of Similar Category.
Day Six
Colombo/ Airport
After breakfast proceed to Airport.
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