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Galle / Unawatuna / Hikkaduwa

West of Galle before you hit the bustle and high jink of Hikkaduwa, are perfect, clean, un-peopled beaches between Narigama and Dodanduwa. Right in front of the Fort is Sea Bath. Jungle Beach, the most ruggedly natural, magical place, cannot be easily approached from land due to thick – you...

West of Galle before you hit the bustle and high jink of Hikkaduwa, are perfect, clean, un-peopled beaches between Narigama and Dodanduwa. Right in front of the Fort is Sea Bath. Jungle Beach, the most ruggedly natural, magical place, cannot be easily approached from land due to thick – you guessed it- jungle! But any friendly fisherman will deliver you there for a Robinson Crusoe experience. Unawatuna, the first bay after passing town is still one of the prettiest and great for diving, snorkelling, wave surfing, deep-sea fishing with a Goa-esque flavour; beach cafes and a disco along the strip with a Hindu kovil perching right on the point. Surf-friendly tuk-tuk drivers are invariably surf-bums who can take you with long-boards to surf-idyllic spots such as Midigama and offer valuable coaching to boot. Very useful in Sri Lanka where Life Guards don’t exist and big waves do.

Wijaya beach, 10 kms from Galle with a restaurant tumbling onto the sand is like going down to the pub on a Sunday because all the Brits gather here. A natural lagoon forms a safe paddling pool close to the sun-dozing Mums and there’s a natural Jacuzzi’s amongst the rocks; no locals, so relaxed atmosphere for shy single girls. Talpe is a whole kilometre of wide, undisturbed white sand with a reef, so parts are safe for swimming and others suitable for surf (in season) You can walk till the end of the rainbow and footprints on the sand are quite likely your own.

Galle

Old Galle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Galle Fort itself is still a living monument with a bustling community within the great ramparts, massive bastions, pepper pot towers, while narrow streets display its Dutch heritage with beckoning pillared verandas and fretwork facades. Walkin...

Old Galle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Galle Fort itself is still a living monument with a bustling community within the great ramparts, massive bastions, pepper pot towers, while narrow streets display its Dutch heritage with beckoning pillared verandas and fretwork facades. Walking around is best so you can peep through frangipani filled courtyards at houses, galleries or shops selling antiques, spices, pictures, nouveau-boule and hand-woven sarongs. Boutique hotels in Galle incongruously cheek by jowl with postage-stamp size cafes, so you are never far from a perfect sun-downer. Pondicherri meets Cadaques! But step outside the Citadel, and a different city with a different agenda is the ‘New Galle’ tussling with bustle, noise and chaotic traffic coming in every direction. Keep a hanky close for exhaust fumes or a whiff of Old Delhi can get very much in yer face! Especially at the Dutch Market where fruit and vegetable sellers hawk their wares or the Fish Market where today’s catch is chilling. After the mayhem of the day be sure that wherever there is the greatest view, a veritable gem of architecture secretly sits, glamorous and illusive as an old movie star, meticulously restored from 300-year old merchant’s villa, with cobbled courtyards now transformed into glistening sea-water pools.

The early traders got blown into Serendib’s ancient port by the Trade Winds which acted as shuttle service for Roman, Greek, Arab and Chinese who came and saw and conquered prizes of ‘gold, silver, ivory, apes and peacocks’. Today’s traveller can use those very same winds to kite-surf. Or deep sea fish, dive, trek to rainforests, see Buddhist temples, explore eco-villages which makes time stand still, promenade on stone ramparts 20 meters thick and let history and legend seep into his bones in “one of the world’s last authentic island destinations”.

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Top Sri Lanka Tours

$50 Per Day

ONE DAY TREKKING TOURS

Option - 1 :
Knuckles Mountain Range - ( unesco world Heritage site. )
Marvelous view / Pigmy forest / Waterfalls

After breakfast ( 7.30 am ) proceed to knuckles mountain range, It is informed that while going to knuckles range. we have to pass through remote village. and it around 1800 m from the mean sea level. which is a amazing area comprise with pigmy forest fauna and flora. the science of several kinds endemic birds. monkey, porcupine, wild pole and civet cats etc. and also able to have glimpse of sambur deer, barking deer, and leopard. once in a blue moon and this will be a tour that will never forget one who attend same.
After visit returning to kandy

Total working around 14 km
morning leave about at 7.30 am.

 

 

Option - 2 :
Knuckles Mountain Range - ( unesco world Heritage site. )
Marvelous view / Pigmy forest / Waterfalls

After breakfast ( 7.30 am ) proceed to knuckles mountain range, Through the amazing tea plantations and pigmy forest it is possible to witness the science of sceneries over the forest area together with waterfalls and those working under forest canopy, with a panoramic view. several kind of endemic birds, beard monkey, porcupine, wild pole and civet cats etc.
After visit returning to kandy,

Total working around 08 km
morning leave about at 7.30 am.

 

 

Option - 3 :
Bible rock
Rice land / beautiful sceneries / Remote village

A popular destinations for the adventure-seeking traveler is the bible rock. also known as the batalegala mountain. in the midst of marvelous views of craggy, densely wooded hills. it is the prominent flat topped bible rock which acquired it's pious name thanks to dutiful local victorians on account of it's resemblance to a lectern. A 798 meters high rock offer a sheer face for those who seek to scale challenging surfaces. moreover, is an ecologically important area in the central hills.
After visit returning to kandy

Total working around 8 km
morning leave about at 8.30 am.

 

 

Option - 4 :
Alagalla rock
Vegetable cultivation / Beautiful sceneries

After breakfast ( 8.30 am ) proceed to alagalla rock, The alagalla rock is a steep mountain located near the ihala kotte railway stations, it makes the entrance of the rail way to be up country. a train tunnel has been bored 300 feet, through the solid rock of the alagalla the mountain offers a variety of summit. which offers a breathtaking view of the surrounding area.
After visit returning to kandy

Total working around 8 km.
morning leave about at 8.30 am.

 

 

Option - 5:
Ritigala
Architecture / Monastic ruins / CAVE'S

After breakfast ( 7.30 am ) proceed to ritigala, This has been called as arittha pabbatha (the mountain of aritta) which can be translate as "dreadful rock" or "safty rock" or even riti trees growing upon it around 3 rd century B.C. aritta, who was the chef minister of king dewanampiyatissa who later was ordained as the fist sri lankan monk and become an arahath spend his monastic life at ritigala there are many monastic ruins of stones, terrace way a stone brige and remain of a giant stone banked pond build across a water strem.

Returning from ritigala to kandy visiting to see the dambulla cave's temple,Dambulla Cave's Temple

Dambulla cave temple also know as the golden temple of dambulla is a world heritage site declared by since 1991. King walagamba return to the throne at Anuradahapura kingdom in the 1 st centure B.C. he had a magnificent rock temple built at dambulla, in gratitude to the monk in dambulla , it is the largest and best preserved temple a most impressive place of sri lanka, the rock 160 m over the surrounding plains , more than 85 caves in the surrounding area. major attractions are spread over 5 cave's.
After visit returning to kandy,

Total working around 15 km.
morning leave about at 7.30 am.

 

 

 

Option - 6:
Pidurangala Rock
Ancient forest monastery / Beautiful scenerice / Opposite sigiriya

After breakfast ( 7.30 am ) proceed to pidurangala rock, History of pidurangala flows beyond the 1 & 2 century from those days. but this place becomes a prominent buddhist monastery during the king kashyapa time ( 477 - 495 AD )

some believe that sigiriya also a buddhist monastery before the king kashyapa time once he decided to build his fortress in sigiriya. he requested the monk to move to pidurangala. and had contributed lot of the development of it. it is believed that the ' uppalawanna kashyapa giri viharaya ' which was constructed by king kashyapa was located in the pidurangala.

Returning from pidurandala to kandy visiting to see the dambulla cave'temple, Dambulla cave's Temple

Dambulla cave temple also know as the golden temple of dambulla is a world heritage site declared by since 1991. King walagamba return to the throne at Anuradahapura kingdom in the 1 st centure B.C. he had a magnificent rock temple built at dambulla, in gratitude to the monk in dambulla , it is the largest and best preserved temple a most impressive place of sri lanka, the rock 160 m over the surrounding plains , more than 85 caves in the surrounding area. major attractions are spread over 5 cave's.
After visit returning to kandy,

Total working around 10 km.
morning leave about at 7.30 am.

$60 Per Day

One of tour in Sri Lanka

1st Day

Pick up from Airport will Transfer Dambulla On the way visit elephant orphanage at Pinnawela.  It is an orphanage for baby elephants set up by the Department of National Zoological Gardens. The Orphanage was established to feed, nurse, and house young elephants found abandoned
by their mothers. Other inmates are those found displaced from their natural environs by development projects or those found wounded.

Than can visit  the Rock Caved Golden Temple of Dambulla, which is famous for its 01st Century BC cave complex and its vast area of mural painted on the surface of the rock. It is also known for its large number of statues of Buddha carved out of the living rock
Stay in Dambulla. Or Habarana or Sigiriya


2nd Day
Morning can visit Polonnaruwa, the medieval capital of ancient Ceylon . The city of Polonnaruwa was the second capital of Ceylon, with its comparatively brief history with over a dozen rulers. Visit the sites where once seven storey castles and temples were situated

Afternoon can do safari at Minariya or Kaudulla National park
Stay in Dambulla or Habarana or Sigiriya

3rd Day

Dambulla to Kandy

On the way visit Sigiriya, a massive rock fortress rising 183 meters above the surrounding green scrub jungle, just declared a world heritage site, is perhaps the most memorable place for visitors to Sri Lanka. The site was built under the orders of the paranoid king Kasyapa. The well-planned complex included caved temples, bathing pools, lovely ponds and Asia ’s oldest surviving landscaped gardens. Today Sigiriya is famous for its frescoes painted in the pocket of the rock. The “Lion Stairway”, the“Mirror Wall” and the “ Water Gardens ” a

En route a brief stop at Matale to visit a spice garden /

PMProceed to Kandy and visit the city and the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic of Lord Buddha. In the evening view a cultural show featuring traditional dance performance

Stay in Kandy

4th April
Kandy to Nuwara Eliya

After breakfast, En route, visit the Royal Botanical Gardens of  Peradeniya, The Royal Botanical Garden at Peradeniya were established in 1821 and now covers 140 acres, snuggled in a loop in the Mahaweli River , the longest river in Sri Lanka. Its primary purpose was the testing and acclimatizing of plants for commercial use in Sri Lanka. Today the Gardens have one largest collections of flora from sub tropical climates around the world. Return to hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
 
En route visit a tea plantation and a tea factory / water falls .

PM Arrive in Nuwara Eliya and visit the city

Stay  Nuwara Eliya

5th April
Nuwara Eliya to Ella by train
Drop you at Nanu Oya railway station and pick up Ella station
Ella we and do many adventure drive to Ella Going to visit Ravana Ella Falls, Hikeing Little Adam’s Peak. Visiting real Sri Lankan Village Stay in Ella.

6th April
Ella to Mirissa
Last tow day you can visit Galle fort / water sport / surfing

 

$50 Per Day

LUXURY Island tour-

LUXURY ISLAND TOUR ( 6 NIGHTS / 7 DAYS)

DAY 1 - Negombo / Anuradhapura
After you get picked up from the airport or hotel, we will proceed to the ancient city of Anuradhapura, on the way visiting coconut plantations and observing the famous toddy tappers at work. After checking into your hotel at Anuradhapura you start the city tour. Anuradhapura dates back to the 3rd century B.C to 10th century A.D. You will visit the Sri Maha Bodhi, the Brazen Palace, the Ruwanveli Seya Dagoba (biggest dagoba in Sri Lanka), the Thuparama Dagoba, the Lankarama Dagoba, the Elephant Pond, the Abhayagiriya Monastery Complex, the world famous Samadhi Buddha Statue and the Isurumuniya Temple (Stone carving of the Sri Lankan Romeo & Juliet).Overnight stay in Anuradhapura.

DAY 2 - Anuradhapura / Polonnaruwa / Sigiriya
After breakfast at the hotel, proceed to sightseeing of the ancient city of Polonnaruwa (10th-12th century A.D). You will visit the modern Museum, the Parakrama Samudra, Statue of King Parakramabahu, the Library Shrine, Palace of King Parakramabahu, the Kumara Pokuna, the Shiva temple, the Thuparama shrine room with its glittering statues, the Alahana Monastery Complex, the Gal Vihare, the Lotus Pond and and the Thivanka Image House. Following afternoon tea you will proceed to Sigiriya.Overnight stay at Sigiriya.

DAY 3 - Sigiriya / Dambulla / Nalanda Gedige / Aluvihara / Kandy
In the early morning you will have the opportunity to climb the Sigiriya Rock Fortress, built in the 5th century A.D, see the Water Garden, Boulder Garden, Mural Paintings, the Mirror Wall, the Lion's Paws and the Royal Swimming Pool on top. Return to the hotel for a well-deserved breakfast. After this you will proceed to the Dambulla Cave Temple. This is followed by Nalande Gedige (a temple built in the geographical centre of Sri Lanka), the Aluvihare Cave Temple (where Buddhism was brought into book form in the 1st century B.C).Overnight stay in Kandy.

DAY 4 - Kandy / Elephant Orphanage / Kandy
You will visit the Elephant Orphanage in Pinawela where you can see the feeding of baby elephants by milk bottle, and elephants bathing in the river. A visit the Royal Botanical Garden at Peradeniya is followed by a Kandy city tour including the Market, Bazaar, the famous Temple of the Tooth Relic, and a traditional Kandyan Dance performance.Overnight stay in Kandy.

DAY 5 - Kandy / Nuwara-Eliya / Ella
After Breakfast at the hotel leave for Ella and enroute visit Tea Factory and Tea Plantation. After a picturesque drive through Sri Lanka's hill country you will reach Nuwara Eliya (often called Little England) with its colonial hotels, Race course and Golf Courses, followed by a visit to the Hakgala Botanical Gardens and you will proceed to Ella, Sri Lanka's highest village. Overnight stay at Ella.

DAY 6 - Ella / Buduruwagala / Tissamaharama
After breakfast at the hotel proceed to Tissamaharama - enroute visit Buduruwagla and see the magnificent views of Ella valley and the Rawana Waterfalls. After stopping at the Buduruwagala Temple, you will continue to the hotel at Tissamaharama. Afternoon Jeep safari to the National Park where there are leopards, elephants, bears, and thousands of local and migrant birds in the wild. Overnight stay at Tissamaharama.

DAY 7 -Tissamaharama - South & South-West Coast
After breakfast at the hotel we drive back to the airport or your hotel along beautiful beaches, with the opportunity to stop wherever you like to take a dip. The best known beach resorts are Tangalle, Mirissa, Kosgoda, Induruwa, Unawatuna, Hikkaduwa, Bentota and Beruwala.

Contact for the prices for the above program