6-Day Sri Lanka Culture and Nature Tour with Yala and Bentota

• Meet your guide with traditional Sri Lankan hospitality at the airport, then travel in your private air-conditioned vehicle with your courteous English-speaking chauffeur-guide to Kandy.

• Visit the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage, where baby elephants are cared for. Be sure to watch the morning or evening feeding and bathing sessions, which are indeed a sight to see.

• Drive to Kandy, the centre of traditional Sri Lankan culture and home to the kings of old. En route, you will visit an aromatic Spice Garden.

• Check in at your hotel.

• Visit the beautiful Dalada Maligawa, "The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic of Lord Buddha", followed by a Cultural Dance Program.

Overnight at Hotel Topaz 3*, Kandy - Deluxe Room.

Airport to Kandy (via Pinnawela)

Distance: 120 kms

Travel time: 3 hours 40 mins (approximately)

• Enjoy a city tour of Kandy, including the Upper and Lower Lake Drives, a Gem Museum, and the famous Kandy Market, among many other very interesting sights.

• Go for a spectacular drive through the mountains. Viewing endless tea plantations and majestic waterfalls brings you to Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka's "Little England", where time seems to have stood still since the British occupation. On the way to Nuwara Eliya, visit the Hanuman Temple and a typical Tea Factory, and enjoy a freshly brewed cup of tea.

• Enjoy a city tour of Nuwara Eliya. After that, visit the Sita Amman Temple and stroll along Gregory Lake.

Overnight at Heaven Seven Hotel 2*, Nuwara Eliya - Deluxe Room.

Kandy to Nuwara Eliya

Distance: 82 kms

Travel time: 2 hours 30 mins (approximately)

• Go for another spectacular drive down the mountains to Tissamaharama via Ella. Ella has some of the most beautiful views you will find in Sri Lanka. Some of the places you could see in Ella are the Ella Gap, Ravana Ella Falls, Little Adam's Peak, and Bambaragala Peak, among many other stunning sceneries.

• Enjoy an evening jeep safari in Yala National Park.

Overnight at Ekho Safari Hotel 3*, Tissamaharama - Superior Room.

Nuwara Eliya to Tissamaharama (via Ella)

Distance: 148 kms

Travel time: 3 hours 51 mins (approximately)

• Proceed on a drive towards Galle after breakfast.

• Visit the famous Galle Fort, which was built by the Portuguese to protect the southern tip of Sri Lanka and is still almost as it was in ancient times.

• Drive to Balapitiya and enjoy a riverboat safari on the river and lagoon.

• Travel to Kosgoda and visit a Turtle Hatchery.

Overnight at Ekho Surf Hotel 3*, Bentota - Superior Room.

Tissamaharama to Bentota (via Galle)

Distance: 211 kms

Travel time: 4 hours 40 mins (approximately)

• Enjoy plenty of water sports possibilities besides swimming, body-surfing, or diving in the sea, including jet skiing, windsurfing, and parasailing.

Overnight at Ekho Surf Hotel 3* PLUS, Bentota - Superior Room.

• Travel to Colombo after breakfast.

• Enjoy an interesting city tour of Colombo, which includes essential residential and commercial areas, shopping centres, and other fascinating sights, adding to the mystical ambience of being in this exotic land.

• Relax and perhaps do some last-minute souvenir shopping, then bid goodbye to beautiful and exotic Sri Lanka, its beautiful people, scenery, and mystical ambience.

• Go to the airport with your guide in time to board your flight back home - end of tour.

Bentota to the airport (via Colombo City)

Distance: 117 kms

Travel time: 2 hours 30 mins (approximately)