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

• You will be picked up from the airport and transferred to Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. Here, you can feed the elephants and watch around 80 elephants bathe and play in the Maha Oya River. Afterwards, continue the drive toward Sigiriya for the night.

Overnight stay at Jetwing Lake or a similar hotel in Dambulla.

• Start the journey at 7:00 AM and visit the eighth wonder of the world. This remarkable site features huge walls, water canals, security guard rooms, natural stone arches, the Mirror Wall, and the world-famous Sigiri paintings. It is an isolated rock kingdom rising more than 200 metres in height. Spend about 2.5 hours here.
• Visit 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 1st century. There are about 153 Buddha statues and murals covering 2,100 square metres, and it takes around 1.5 hours to tour the entire complex.
• Enjoy a Kandyan dancing event in the evening between 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM.
• Visit the Temple of the Tooth Relic, where the most sacred molar tooth of Lord Buddha is kept under a golden ceiling.

Overnight stay at Kandy Gallery or a similar hotel in Kandy.

• After breakfast, visit Peradeniya Botanical Garden. The garden is filled with colourful flowering plants, herbal plants, endemic and epidemic plant species, and palm family trees, with more than 4,000 varieties to be seen here.
• Explore waterfalls and scenic landscapes along the way to Nuwara Eliya. Take in the breathtaking beauty of the region's upland tea estates.
• Stop at Macwoods Tea Factory to learn about tea processing and the different varieties of tea by taste and quality. You can also purchase fresh tea products from the factory outlet here.

Overnight stay at EKHO Ella or a similar hotel in Ella.

• Begin at 5:00 AM and drive straight to Lipton Seat to catch the sunrise from a point that covers the highest viewpoints of five provinces at once. The route stretches along the tea estates, where busy tea pluckers are already at work from early morning.
• Your Udawalawa National Park safari starts at 2:30 PM. See the natural habitats of wild elephants, Sri Lankan leopards, and the Sri Lankan sloth bear. Spend around 3 to 4 hours here.

Overnight stay at Grand Udawalawa or a similar hotel in Udawalawa.

• Drive to Galle. En route, see the Hummanaya blowhole and a turtle hatchery. The Hummanaya blowhole pumps seawater up to 40 feet through a natural hole between two closely set rocks and splashes water into the sky.

Overnight stay at Jetwing Kurulubedda or a similar hotel in Galle.

• The dolphin and whale watching tour begins at 6:00 AM and lasts 4 hours. Kayaking, canoeing, banana boat rides, jet skiing, and tube rides are some joyful activities that you can enjoy in the sea. You will then have the evening to relax at leisure.

Overnight stay at Jetwing Kurulubedda or a similar hotel in Galle.

• There are no touring activities on this day; you will be dropped off at the airport.