9 Days Explore Ceylon's Best Cities
Highlights
Kandy, Sigiriya, Dambulla, Polonnaruwa, Nuwara Eliya, Ella, Tissamaharama, Unawatuna, Katunayake
Locations Covered
Kandy, Sigiriya, Dambulla, Polonnaruwa, Nuwara Eliya, Ella, Tissamaharama, Unawatuna, Katunayake
bird, cultural, camping
Private Tour
9 Days
Easy
English
Description
Enjoy a relaxing, and comfortable private transfer and professional English guiding through the highlights of Sri-Lanka.
Itinerary
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Pick up from airport-kingdom of Polonnaruwa
Pick up from the airport and drive to Polonnaruwa.
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Kingdom of Polonnaruwa - Sigiriya
Visit Polonnaruwa during the morning hours, which was Sri Lanka's capital for about 200 years and finally the kingdom, was transferred to Dambadeniya and Polonnaruwa was concored by Indian king Kalinga Magha.
You can visit the archaeological museum, royal palace, audience hall, swimming pool, sacred quadrangle, shiva devale, Babalu Vehera, Rankot vihara, Kiri Vihara, buddha statue at lankatilaka, buddha figures at gal vihara etc.
Drive to Sigiriya and stay overnight here.
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Lion rock- Dambulla cave temple-cultural show - Kandy
Start the journey at 7.00 a.m., and you will visit the eight wonder of the world, which contains huge walls, water canals, security guard rooms, natural stoned arches, mirror stone and world-famous Sigiri paintings. It is an isolated rock, kingdom more than 200m in height.
Your second destination is the Dambulla cave temple, the largest and the best-preserved cave temple in Sri Lanka. The caves were converted into a temple complex by king Walagamba during the 1st century. There are about 153 buddha statues and murals, which covers 2100 square meters. You have to spend around one and a half hours to cover the entire temple complex.
Travel to Kandy and enjoy Kandyan dancing event in the evening.
And spend the night in Kandy.
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Two days trekking with one overnight camping in the knuckles
Begins the journey early in the morning by 7.00 a.m.to Knuckles valley, for hiking, While reaching the peak you will pass tea estates, waterfalls, panoramic scenarios, pigmy rain and cloudy forest. Also, you can watch many bird varieties and animals at the same time.
Spend the night in a jungle camp, and you are served BBQ for dinner.
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Two days trekking with one overnight camping in the knuckles
Start climbing downhill through tea plantations and passing medium tracking. There are sparkling waterfalls on the way to enjoy.
Be dropped back to your hotel in Kandy by the evening.
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Temple of the tooth relic-Ambuluwawa tower- waterfalls- tea plantation-tea factory-Nuwara Eliya
Visit the temple of the tooth relic, situated in world heritage Kandy city. The lord buddha's most sacred molar tooth is placed in seven golden caskets, under a golden ceiling.
See the royal palace of the last king, who ruled Sri Lanka until 1815. There are four Hindu temples and the Buddhist and archaeological museums also situated on the maligawa premises.
Go to the Ambuluwawa tower, which stands at the height of 48 meters on an isolated mountain.
Drive to Nuwara Eliya. Passing waterfalls and high grown tea plantations and world reputed tea factories.
Stay overnight at Nuwara Eliya.
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Nuwara Eliya - Horton plains- worlds end-nine arch bridge- little Adams peak-Ella
Drive to Horton plains, which is the highest plain and 9 km circular walking track and takes more than 03-04 hours. The worlds end viewpoint is the most iconic place to see up to the south coast of Sri Lanka from worlds end. The Bakers fall - another eye-catching scenery-and Horton plains are a susceptible natural zone in Sri Lanka.
Drive to the hotel in Ella. When you walk for about 30 minutes towards the train track, you can see nine arch bridge. Little Adams Peak is an attractive viewpoint to see sunsets.
Stay overnight in Ella.
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Ella -Yala national park
Drive to Tissamaharamaya.
You can see wonderful Rawana Ella waterfall soon after passing Ella. Rawana Ella is the widest fall in Sri Lanka as well as it is more attractive.
Join Yala Safari, an interesting and most popular event among tourists as Yala is the second largest wild life reservoir in Sri Lanka. It contains a higher density of leopards population a national park in the world. If you are lucky, you can catch leopards into your eyes. Stay overnight in Tissamaharamaya.
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Hummanaya blow hole- turtle hatchery- drop in unawatuna
Drives straight away to see Hummanaya blowhole, which pumps seawater up to 40 feet during south-west monsoon season.
See the turtle conservation project at Rekawa.
Drive back to the hotel in Unawatuna or the nearest beach resort.
What's Included
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Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.