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An exciting 4 day 3 night tour covering a City Tour in Colombo, The picturesque City of Kandy and the elephant orphanage at Pinnawela..
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Arrive at Katunayake International airport. You will be met by Tour East representative at the airport and transferred to Galle Face hotel in Colombo.
Check in to Galle Face hotel.
Overnight at Galle Face Hotel. |
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Breakfast at Galle Face hotel.
After breakfast leave for Kandy. En-route visit the Elephant Orphanage at Pinnawala, which is the home fore more than 60 elephants, of which some are baby elephants abandoned or orphaned in the wild. They are cared for, fed and trained by the Wild Life Authorities. The best time to visit is during feeding times when one can witness the baby elephants being bottle-fed. It is also possible to
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accompany the elephants to a river nearby to see them having a bath. Proceed to Kandy.
Check in at Swiss Residence hotel.
Evening take a city tour of Kandy. Kandy was the last capital of Sri Lankan Kings and is a world heritage site. Visit Kandy Art & Crafts Center, Gem Museum & Lapidary. Witness a cultural show featuring traditional Kandyan and Sri Lankan dancing. Thereafter visit the Dalada Maligawa – the Temple of the Tooth Relic of the Lord Buddha, rescued from the cremation flames.
Overnight stay at Swiss Residence Hotel. |
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Breakfast at Swiss Residence hotel.
After breakfast drive round the Kandy Lake and visit Kandy town & bazaar. Visit the Royal Botanical Gardens at Peradeniya, which was first built as a pleasure garden by a Sinhala King & later expanded by the British. It is 147 acres in extent and has an amazing variety of trees, plants and flowers. |
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Evening leave on a sightseeing tour of Colombo driving through the Commercial area of the ‘Fort’ so named, because both the Portuguese and Dutch had a fort at this point. Drive past ‘Pettah’ – a noisy Oriental bazaar with a hotchpotch of humanity. Ancient vehicles, bargains, mosques and temples. Visit a Hindu and Buddhist temple. Continue the tour through the Wolfendhal Dutch Church and the Hultsdrof Law Courts, to the residential are of Cinnamon Gardens.
Check in at Galle Face hotel.
Overnight stay at Galle Face Hotel. |
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Breakfast at Galle Face hotel.
Transfer to the Airport for the Departure flight. |
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