5 Days Culture tour itinerary for sri-lanka: Plan A Island Mini Tour

• On arrival, meet & greet at the airport and transfer to hotel in Dambulla/Sigiriya. 

• Check-in to the hotel and relax to recover from the jet lag.

Dinner and overnight stay at hotel in Dambulla/Sigiriya.

• Eat breakfast at the hotel.

• Visit the Sigiriya Rock Fortress. 

• In the afternoon, go for a thrilling jeep safari at Minneriya National Park. 

Dinner and overnight stay at hotel in Dambulla/Sigiriya.

• Wake up for breakfast at the hotel.

• Visit Dambulla Rock Cave Temple. Dambulla Cave Temple, also known as the Golden Temple of Dambulla. The largest and best-preserved cave temple complex in Sri Lanka, the rock from which the caves were carved towers 160 meters (520ft) over the surrounding plains. A total of 153 Buddha statues, three statues of Sri Lankan kings and four statues of gods and goddesses also stand in the site.

• Continue your journey to the hill capital of Kandy. Eminent as the centre of Buddhism and the capital of the last Sinhalese kingdom.

• En route, visit a spice garden in Matale to see many different types of spices Sri Lanka is famous for. You will be introduced to different spices and shown how some of these spices are grown and processed. Gardens are open to visitors, a delightful place to stroll in fragrant greenery and learn about nutmeg, pepper vines, clove trees and curry, cinnamon and the precious cardamom, a relative of ginger. It grows in the shade of high jungle trees and can only be harvested by hand.

• Enjoy a traditional cultural dance performance which is a vibrant and unique fire and Harvest dances accompanied by Ceremonial Drums and the Drum Orchestra rising and falling to the lively tempo. The highlight of the show is definitely the fire walking show, where the artists walk through a specially prepared fire pit, roughly 8 feet by 3 feet covered with red-hot charcoal, completely barefoot.

Dinner and overnight stay at hotel in Kandy.

• Rise up for breakfast at the hotel.

• Visit the Temple of Tooth Relic, for the morning ceremony; the stunning 17th century Temple of the Tooth (Sri Dalada Maligawa) is believed to house the left upper canine tooth of the Lord Buddha himself.This precious relic attracts white-clad pilgrims, bearing lotus blossoms and frangipani, every day.

• Make a sightseeing tour of Kandy by visiting the upper lake, oriental market place, and a bazaar.

• Visit the Royal Botanical Gardens, at Peradeniya, the largest of Sri Lanka’s botanical gardens displaying over 4 000 different species of plants and regarded amongst the most superior in Asia.The focal points include the superb Orchid collection and a mighty avenue of Royal Palm [sensitive content]addition to a plethora of flowering plants, there is also an extensive collection of medicinal plants and spices which can be spotted on your meander across the gardens.

• Leave for Negombo.

Dinner and overnight stay at hotel in Negombo.

• Consume breakfast at the hotel.

• Transfer to airport for onward flight or to the beach hotel for a continuous beach holiday in Sri Lanka.