Visit Sri Lanka - Your Ultimate Travel Experience: 2017

Saturday 18 March 2017

Our Kandy Esla Perahera Package

DAY 1 | AIRPORT/ COLOMBO

On arrival in Bandaranaike International airport, you will be warmly greeted and transferred to the hotel in Colombo.

If time permits, afternoon visit Gangaramaya Temple.

Hotel – Global Towers Hotel

Room- Standard

Web Site - http://globaltowershotel.com/

DAY 2 | COLOMBO/KANDY

After your breakfast leave for Kandy for two nights.

En route visit Peradeniya Botanical Gardens. This is a much visited and acclaimed botanical garden, which is also good for birds. It is bounded on three sides by the Mahaveli River, which snakes around the 60-hectare gardens. Before its use as a botanical gardens it had served as a royal pleasure garden. Peradeniya is the second largest botanical garden in Asia. It has an orchid house, which botanists should visit. In 1905 an avenue of palms were planted and now is one of the most photographed places in the gardens.

Afterwards visit Temple of the Tooth. The Sacred Tooth Relic, housed in the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy is an object of veneration to Buddhists and the most important sacred relic in the country is. The temple is one of the most sacred places in the world for Buddhists. From ancient times kings have kept the Sacred Tooth Relic in their kingdoms as a symbol of power. History records that the Tooth Relic was first brought to the Island by Prince Dhantha and Princess Hemamali during the reign of King Kirti Sri Meghavanna (301 - 328 AD). It is a traditional belief that, whoever takes possession of the Tooth Relic, ruler or invader, has the power to rule the people.

Hotel – Earls Regent

Room- Deluxe

Web Site - http://www.regentkandy.lk/gallery.html

DAY 3 | KANDY

Start your day with a visit to the three of the most ancient and interesting temples in the central highlands- Embekke, Lankathilake & Gadaladeniya.

Spend your afternoon at leisure.

Afterwards visit Kandy to experience The Kandy Esala Perahera. The period July-August (Esala-Nikini in the traditional Sinhalese calendar) is the Esala Perahera season in Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese term 'perahera' means a train of musicians, dancers, acrobats and other performers usually accompanied by a number of elephants parading the streets in celebration of a religious or secular person or event.

Hotel – Earls Regent

Room- Deluxe

Web Site - http://www.regentkandy.lk/gallery.html

DAY 4| KANDY/SIGIRIYA

After the breakfast leave for Sigiriya. En-route Visit Dambulla cave temple which is famous for its rock paintings and sculptures. Dambulla is considered as the oldest art gallery of the country. The paintings found on the rock ceiling shows the influence of Kandyan School of paintings became prominent in the 18th – 19th century in Sri Lanka.

Remainder the day at leisure.

Hotel – Kassapa Lions Rock

Room- Standard

Web Site - https://www.kassapalionsrock.com/

DAY 5 | SIGIRIYA/POLONNARUWA/MINNERIYA

Morning visit sacred city Polonnaruwa, (A UNESCO World Heritage Site), the medieval capital of Sri Lanka. From the tenth century AD the capital of the most powerful kingdom in the island shifted to Polonnaruwa from Anuradhapura. It was the capital from around 993 AD to 1250 AD. The greatest king of Polonnaruwa was Parakramabahu I (1153 –1186 AD).

Afternoon visit Minneriya National Park for Elephants. During September and October, over 300 elephants gather on the receding shores of the Minneriya Tank. ‘The Gathering’ of Elephants at Minneriya is one of those awesome spectacles, which should rank alongside better-known wildlife spectacles such as the migration of wildebeest in Africa.

Hotel – Kassapa Lions Rock

Room- Standard

Web Site - https://www.kassapalionsrock.com/

DAY 6 | SIGIRIYA

Morning visit Sigiriya. (A UNESCO World Heritage site) .The rock is an inselberg, which dominates the landscape and was both a military refuge as well as an aesthetic refuge for king who was a patron of the arts. Initially Sigiriya became world famous for the frescos found on the western surface of the rock about 100 miters above the ground level. Ancient gardens found at the foot of the rock could be considered as the one of the surviving gardens created with the country in the 5th century AD.

Afternoon leisure.

Hotel – Kassapa Lions Rock

Room- Standard

Web Site - https://www.kassapalionsrock.com/

DAY 7 | SIGIRIYA/NEGOMBO

After your breakfast leave for Negombo.

Remainder the day at leisure.

Hotel – Tamarind Tree Hotel

Room- Standard

Web Site - http://www.tamarindtreehotels.com/

DAY 8| NEGOMBO/AIRPORT

Transfer to International Airport.