Colombo Trip Overview
This tour is a 7-day tour that covers the main highlights of Sri Lanka including culture, wildlife, hill country, and city. It is created focusing the vaccinated clients and adhering to the current travel guidelines in place for Sri Lanka
Additional Info
Duration: 7 days
Starts: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
This tour is a 7-day tour that covers the main highlights of Sri Lanka including culture, wildlife, hill country, and city. It is created focusing the vaccinated clients and adhering to the current travel guidelines in place for Sri Lanka
Itinerary
Day 1: Airport/Hotel – Colombo
Pass By: Colombo, Colombo, Western Province
Proceed to hotel and undergo a mandatory PCR test.
**Pls note on the way to hotel, you will not be able to stop for a toilet/convinience break. Hence, please use facilities at Airport before transfer.
**As per the health guidelines chauffeur will be in full PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) on day 1 at arrival.
NOTES:
• It is mandatory that you remian in your room until PCR test results are received. Hotel will endevour to provide meals to your rooms until such time.
• PCR result will take between 24-36h, hence should factor in the overnights accordignly. (Example – if arrival is after 1300h on day 1 , it is reccomended to stay 02 nights at level one hotel until PCR results are received)
• In program we have assumed arrival will be in the morning. If afternoon/evening flights, we can extend night in Colombo level one hotel at a supplement until PCR results and discharge letter is received.
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight stay at Colombo (4 star Hotel) – Level 1
Day 2: Colombo – Sigiriya
Stop At: Colombo, Colombo, Western Province
Breakfast and once the negative PCR test result along with the discharge letter from the hotel is received, drive to Sigiriya If time permits engage in a short city tour of Colombo.
Colombo (Duration of visit: approx 1 Hour)
Places Visited: Galle Face, Petah Bazaar, Town Hall, Independence square, and Gangarama Temple.
Colombo tour includes a drive through the city taking you to the busy commercial areas as well as the tree-lined residential, Cinnamon Gardens. Visit Fort, the former British administrative center and military garrison, Sea Street – the Goldsmith’s quarters in the heart of Pettah, the Bazaar area, a Hindu Temple with elaborate stone carvings and the Dutch Church of Wolfendhal dating back to 1749. You have a chance to see a Hindu Temple, the famous Buddhist Temple known as the Gangarama, and the Jami Ul Alfar Jumma Mosque of Colombo.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight stay at Sigiriya (4 star hotel)
Day 3: Sigiriya – Polonnaruwa – Sigiriya
Stop At: Sigiriya The Ancient Rock Fortress, Sigiriya 21120 Sri Lanka
Sigiriya Located a few hours’ drive from Colombo, Sigiriya is a magnificent rock fortress built in the 5th century A.D. This majestic Citadel in the sky was the refuge of King Kasyapa and is world-renowned for its Mirror Wall’, which consists of poems and paragraphs carved by some of the thousands of visitors who visited the rock many years ago, and for its magnificent frescoes, similar to the Ajantha frescoes of India.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Polonnaruwa, Polonnaruwa, North Central Province
It would take you awhile to fathom that such a city every existed many years ago and after you return to your true senses the journey through this colossal city would be nothing less than magical. Polonnaruwa is Sri Lanka’s second oldest kingdom and features a plethora of ruins and places of religious worship. Some of the many interesting places to visit in Polonnaruwa include the Gal Viharaya (Stone temple), Lankathilake, Tivanka Image House, Nissanka Latha Mandapaya, the Audience Hall and the Vatadage.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight stay at Sigiriya (4 star hotel)
Day 4: Sigiriya – Dambulla – Kandy
Stop At: Dambulla Cave Temple, Jaffna Hwy, Habarana 50150 Sri Lanka
Designated as a world heritage site, the Dambulla Temple is located on a gigantic rock towering more than 160 m above the surrounding area. The Rock itself is more than 1.5 km around its base and summit is at 550 km. The caves on this rock were the refuge of King Walagamba when he was in exile for 14 years and feature a mixture of religious and worldly paintings and sculptures. Several reclining Buddha’s includes the 15-meter long sculpture of the dying Buddha.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, Sri Dalada Veediya, Kandy 20000 Sri Lanka
The Sri Dalada Maligawa or the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is a temple in the city of Kandy in Sri Lanka. It was built within the royal palace complex which houses the only surviving relic of Buddha, a tooth, which is venerated by Buddhists. The relic has played an important role in local politics since ancient times; it’s believed that whoever holds the relic holds the governance of the country, which caused the ancient kings to protect it with great effort. Kandy was the capital of the Sinhalese Kings from 1592 to 1815, fortified by the terrain of the mountains and the difficult approach. The city is a world heritage site declared by UNESCO, in partly due to the temple.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight stay at Kandy (4 star hotel)
Day 5: Kandy – Nuwara Eliya
Stop At: Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya Road, Peradeniya 20400 Sri Lanka
After breakfast proceed to Nuwara Eliya. Enroute visit Peradeniya Botanical gardens.
Royal Botanical Gardens
The history of the Royal Botanical Gardens dates as far back as 1371 when King Wickramabahu III ascended the throne and kept court at Peradeniya near Mahaweli Ganga. Later, in the reign of King Kirti Sri Rajasinghe from 1747 to 1780 this was made a Royal Garden and from 1780 – 1798 King Rajadhi Rajasinghe resided therein, where a temporary residence was erected for him.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Nuwara Eliya, Nuwara Eliya, Central Province
Nuwara Eliya is also known as ‘Little’ England’, was the favorite hill station of the British who tried to create Nuwara Eliya into a typical English Village. The old brick Post office, country house like hill club, with its hunting pictures, mounted hunting trophies and fish, and it’s strict formal dinner attire; the 18 hole golf course, race course etc., all remind you of ‘England’.
Duration: 40 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight stay at Nuwara Eliya (4 star hotel)
Day 6: Nuwara Eliya – Ella – Kataragama
Stop At: Nanu Oya railway station, Avissawella – Hatton – Nuwara Eliya Hwy, Nuwara Eliya 22200 Sri Lanka
After breakfast proceed to Nanoya station & board the train from Nanoya to Ella. (02nd Class)
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight stay at Kataragama (4 star hotel)
Day 7: Kataragama – Yala – Bentota
Stop At: Yala National Park, Yala National Park
The Yala National Park in southern Sri Lanka has the world’s highest concentration of leopards. Much of the nature reserve is parkland, but it also includes jungle, beaches, freshwater lakes, rivers, and scrubland. In addition to leopards, the Yala National Park is also home to substantial numbers of elephants, crocodiles, wild boar, water buffalo, grey langurs, and many more varieties of large animals. But that’s not all; the park is also home to birds of prey such as the white-bellied sea eagles, waders, painted Storks, the Indian peafowl and the Sri Lanka jungle fowl.
Duration: 4 hours
Stop At: Galle, Galle, Galle District, Southern Province
Thereafter proceed to visit Galle City.
Galle (Duration of visit: approx 1 ½ – 2 Hours)
Galle is a town situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, 119 km (74 mi) from Colombo. Galle was known as Gimhathiththa (although Ibn Batuta in the 14th century refers to it as Qali) before the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th century, when it was the main port on the island. Galle reached the height of its development in the 18th century, before the arrival of the British, who developed the harbor at Colombo.
On completion proceed to airport for departure or drop off at beach hotel for a beach stay.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
