7-Day Sri Lanka Private Tour with Sigiriya, Safari and Whale Watching

• You are picked up from the airport and transferred to Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.

• You can feed the elephants and watch about 80 elephants bathe and play in the Maha Oya River.

• Drive to Sigiriya.

Spend the night in Sigiriya.

• Start the journey at 7.00 a.m. and visit the eighth wonder of the world, which contains huge walls, water canals, security guard rooms, natural stone arches, mirror stone, and the world-famous Sigiri paintings. It is an isolated rock kingdom more than 200 m in height. You have to spend more than two and a half hours here.

• Your second destination is the Dambulla Cave Temple, the largest and best-preserved cave temple in Sri Lanka. The caves were converted into a temple complex by King Walagamba during the first century. There are about 153 Buddha statues and murals covering 2100 square meters. You have to spend around one and a half hours to cover the entire temple complex.

• Travel to Kandy.

• Enjoy a Kandyan dancing event in the evening between 5.00 p.m. and 6.00 p.m., and visit the Temple of the Tooth Relic. The most sacred molar tooth of Lord Buddha is placed in seven golden caskets under a golden ceiling.

Spend the night in Kandy.

• You can visit Peradeniya Botanical Garden on the 3rd day soon after breakfast. The garden is full of colourful flowering plants, herbal plants, endemic and epidemic plant species, and palm family trees. Altogether, more than 4000 varieties can be seen here.

• You can witness scenic landscapes and waterfalls while travelling to Ella. Upland tea estates are highly remarkable in Nuwara Eliya, and massive land areas are dedicated to high-grown upland tea plantations.

• The next stop is Macwoods Tea Factory, where the entire tea-processing method and the tea varieties according to taste and quality are explained. You can purchase fresh tea products from the factory outlet. Stay in Ella.

• The day begins at 5.00 a.m., driving straight to Lipton's Seat to catch the sunrise scenery, which covers 05 provincial highest viewpoints in one place. The path drags along the tea estates, with busy tea pluckers in the morning.

• Your next destination is Udawalawa National Park, and the safari starts at 2.30 p.m. Here, you can see the natural habitats of more than 250 wild elephants. The Sri Lankan leopard and Sri Lankan sloth bear also inhabit Udawalawa, although they are rarely seen. You can spend 3-4 hours there and then drive back to the hotel in Udawalawa.

• Drive to Mirissa.

• On the way, you can see the Hummanaya blowhole and a turtle hatchery. The Hummanaya blowhole pumps seawater up to 40 feet from a natural hole between two close rocks and splashes water into the sky.

Stay the night in Mirissa.

• The dolphin and whale watching tour begins at 6.00 a.m. Enjoy kayaking, canoeing, banana boat rides, jet skiing, and tube riding.

• Relax yourselves in the evening.

• There are no itinerary plans today; you will be dropped back at the airport according to your flight departure time.