7D5N Sri Lanka Culture from C&E Holidays

Highlights:

INCLUSIVE:
* Accommodation as per the itinerary
* FB basis meals commencing with breakfast on D02
* Transportation in an A/C vehicle
* Services of an English-speaking chauffeur guide up to 7 pax & English Speaking National Tour Guide for 8 & above Pax.
* Entrance fee for the tourist Sights mentioned in the itinerary except Sigiriya & Polonnaruwa
* Applicable Jeep hire applicable for Safari
* Departure Transfer
* All taxes

EXCLUDE:
* Meals on D01
* Peak period / Special event Supplements given below
* Entrance fees to Sigiriya & Polonnaruwa
* Any expenses of a personal nature
* Tips
* Visa Fee’s (Applicable for non Singaporeans)

BEST COMPLIMENTS:
* Every 16th Pax on FOC (TWIN Sharing Basis, maximum up to 4 pax)
* Mineral Bottles in the vehicle throughout the tour (2 per person per day)
* WIFI during transfers

IMPORTANT:
~ Prices are subject to confirmation at the time of booking
~ Prices & Itinerary are subject to changes
~ Any un-utilized services, unused tours or hotel rooms are NON-REFUNDABLE
~ Terms and conditions apply
NOT INCLUDED IN THIS PACKAGE:
~ All airport taxes and applicable fuel surcharges
~ Travel Insurance
~ Tips to the guide & driver
~ Meals

IMPORTANT NOTE:
The additional supplement for the overnight in Colombo in order to take the next day morning flight would be as below;
Standard – US $ 130 per room per night
Deluxe – US $ 185 per room per night

Child Policy:
Child (U/12 years) sharing with 2 adults in one room
With an extra bed – 40% discount on the adult Twin sharing rate
Without extra bed – 60% discount on the adult Twin sharing rate

Additional Excursions:
Colombo City Tour by Suba Gaman Tuk Tuk, Colombo- USD 30/-nett P.P
Whale & Dolphin Watching Excursion, Galle/Mirissa- USD 80/-nett P.P
Kosgoda Turtle Hatchery, Kosgoda- USD 5/-nett P.P
Still Fishing picture opportunity, Koggala- USD 10/-nett P.P

Vehicle Allocation:
1-2 pax- Car
3-7 pax – Micro Van
8-13 pax – Mini Coach
14 -25 pax – 33 Seater
26-40 pax – 45 Seater

Tipping guide lines:
English speaking Drivers – USD 4/-per person per day
English speaking Guides – USD 5/- per person per day
Chinese speaking Guides (Compulsory) - USD 08/- per person per day

ATTIRE:
- Visitors of both genders have to wear decent clothing to cover the body appropriately when visiting religious places and shorts and sleeveless tops are not acceptable. This rule is strictly adhered to at all religious sites especially the Sacred Bo Tree and Stupas in Anuradhapura and the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy.
- Visitors should remove hats, caps, shoes and slippers when entering buildings and sites with religious monuments. Most of these places have a secure facility at the entrance for visitors to leave behind shoes and slippers for a very small fee.

7D5N Sri Lanka Culture

From $1039 SGD

SIN - COLOMBO AIRPORT - NEGOMBO (Meals on board)

Arrive in Sri Lanka. You will be met by representatives of Jetwing Travels and transferred to Negombo. (Travel time approx: 45 minutes)

Overnight stay at
STANDARD – Hotel J / Paradise Beach hotel / Goldi Sands, Negombo or similar
DELUXE – Jetwing Blue / Beach / Sea / Lagoon, Negombo or similar

NEGOMBO - PINNAWELA - DAMBULLA (B,L,D)

After breakfast proceed to Dambulla.
(Travel time approx: 4Hrs)

En route visit *Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage - App. 55 miles from Colombo, off the Colombo - Kandy road is Pinnawela, where an orphanage was started in 1975 to house the abandoned and the wounded elephants. The number of elephants has increased to more than 65 now; including Baby Elephants brought from various parts, as well as the 23 babies born, as a result of the captive breeding programme. The best time to visit is the feeding time from 0930-1000 hrs and 1330-1400 hrs and the bathing time from 1000-1030 hrs and 1400-1430 hrs when all the elephants are taken to the river close by. (Excursion will take approx: 1-2Hrs)

Lunch at Elephant Bay Restaurant- Western/Sri Lankan Buffet Meal

Continue to Dambulla. Visit *Dambulla - is a vast isolated rock mass 500 feet high and a mile around the base. Here is found the famous Rock Temple dating to the First Century B.C. The caves of Dambulla sheltered King Walagamba during his 14 years of exile from Anuradhapura. When he regained the throne he built the most magnificent of Rock Temples to be found in the Island. In the first Cave is a recumbent image of the Buddha 47ft long cut out of the Rock. There are images of deities associated with Buddhism all around. The frescoes on the walls and the ceiling are the oldest here but they are over painted in the Kandy period. In the Second Cave, the finest and the largest of all, there are 150 life-size statues of the Buddha in various postures with few statues of Gods and Kings.
(Excursion will take approx: 2Hrs for climb & decent)

Dinner & Overnight stay at
STANDARD – Kassapa Lion Rock / Fresco Water Villa / Thilanka Resort & Spa or similar
DELUXE – Amaya Lake / Chaaya Village / The Paradise Resort / Camellia Resort & Spa or similar

DAMBULLA - POLONNARUWA - MINNERIYA - DAMBULLA (B,L,D)

After breakfast proceed to Polonnaruwa.
(Travel time approx: 1 & 1/2Hrs)

*Polonnaruwa (OPTIONAL – US $ 25 PP) - is another “World Heritage Site” was the Capital of Sri Lanka from 11th - 13th Centuries, contains some splendid and spectacular statues. Lankatilake, Tivanka and Thuparama are the most beautiful and largest Image Houses and Tivanka has the best examples of frescoes of the Polonnaruwa period. Rankoth Vehera and Kirivehera are well preserved large stupas, and Gal Vihare - a rock shrine, has four Buddha statues, two seated, one standing and one reclining and Parakrama Bahu statue are examples of Sinhalese stone carver. (Excursion will take approx: 2Hrs)
Lunch at a restaurant / Hotel in Polonnaruwa – Sri Lankan Buffet Meal

After lunch proceed back to Dambulla

En route Jeep Safari at *Minneriya National Park - This National Park with 8889 hectares in extent is famous for it large population of elephants in herds of 100 to 150 roaming in the jungle and seen in the catchment area of the lake. Entrance is at Ambagaswewa about 6 km from Habarana on the main Habarana Polonnaruwa road. Office is by the side of the main road. Elephants, about 300 wild elephants, wild buffaloes, wild boar, spotted deer, sloth bear, Sambhur, leopards, crocodiles, jackals, 9 kinds of amphibians, 25 kinds of reptiles, 160 species of birds, 26 varieties of fishes, 78 varieties of butterflies are recorded from the Minneriya National Park.
(Excursion will take approx: 2Hrs by Jeep)

Dinner & Overnight stay at
STANDARD – Kassapa Lion Rock / Fresco Water Villa / Thilanka Resort & Spa or similar
DELUXE – Amaya Lake / Chaaya Village / The Paradise Resort / Camellia Resort & Spa or similar

SIGIRIYA - MATALE - KANDY (B,L,D)

After breakfast *Sigiriya Rock Fortress (OPTIONAL – US $ 30 PP) - is home to the 5th Century “Fortress in the Sky” which is perhaps the most fantastic single wonder of the Island. It is also known as Lion Rock because of the huge lion that used to stand at the entrance to the fortress. Within its triple-moated defence the huge rock rises almost to a sheer height of 500ft. On its summit are the foundations of what was once a great and sumptuous palace and gardens complete with swimming pool. On one of the stairways the only known ancient work of Sinhala secular painting survived in the form of Frescoes of life sized damsels in all the freshness and delicacy of their original colour.
(Excursion will take approx: 3-4Hrs for climb & decent)

Proceed to Kandy. En route visit a *Spice Garden in Matale to see the different spices, which Sri Lanka is famous for. You will be introduced to different spices and shown how some of these spices are grown and processed. (Excursion will take approx: 30minutes)

On arrival city tour of Kandy, including Upper Lake Drive, Market Square, Arts & Crafts Centre, Gem Museum. *Kandy - the hill capital, venue of the annual Perahera. The last stronghold of the Sinhala Kings was finally ceded to the British in 1815. Kandy is an example of the Buddhism's influence in Sri Lanka today. Temple's shrines and monasteries keeping alive Buddhist traditions are everywhere.
Visit *Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic - ever since 4th Century A.D, when the Buddha's Tooth was brought to Sri Lanka hidden from sacrilegious hands in an Orissan princess' hair, the Relic has grown in repute and holiness in Sri Lanka and throughout the Buddhist world. It is considered Sri Lanka's most prized possession.
Witness a cultural show featuring various dance groups of Sri Lanka (Excursion will take approx: 2Hrs including 45 minutes cultural dance performance)

Dinner & Overnight stay at
STANDARD – Hotel Topaz / OZO Kandy / Thilanka / Queens Hotel or similar
DELUXE – Amaya Hills / Cinnamon Citadel / Grand Kandyan / Earls Regent or similar

KANDY - NUWARA ELIYA (B,L,D)

After breakfast visit *Royal Botanical Gardens - Peradeniya - 147 acres in extent; Started in 1374 as a pleasure garden of the Kings of Gampola and Kandy. There are more than 5,000 species of trees, plants and creepers. Some rare and endemic as well as flora from the tropical world are found in the gardens. Spice Garden and Orchid House are popular with tourists. There are 5 Palm Avenues beautifying the gardens, the earliest and tallest Palm Avenue (Royal Palm Avenue) was planted in 1905 and the Double Coconuts from the Seashells Island, with the largest seed of all plants in the world is one such avenue. (Excursion will take approx: 2Hrs)
Proceed to Nuwara Eliya. (Travel time approx: 2hrs)

Lunch at Blue Field Restaurant- Western Buffet Meal
*Tea Factory & *Tea Plantation - Tea was first planted in Sri Lanka in 1824 at the Botanical Gardens at Peradeniya, when a few plants were brought from China. More were introduced from Assam in 1839. In 1867 a Scottish Planter named James Taylor planted tea seedlings on an 8 hectares of forest land, in the Loolcondura Estate. In 1873, the tea export industry of Sri Lanka began with a modest 23lbs being shipped to London. Tea will grow well only on rolling terrain and is classified be elevation into low grown, medium grown, high grown, into 3 main groups. In 1996 Sri Lanka has produced 258 million kgs. of tea and has earned Rs. 34,068 million by exporting 244 million kgs. of tea. (Excursion will take approx: 45 minutes)
Afternoon continue to Nuwara Eliya & enjoy the scenic beauty of hill country
*Nuwara Eliya - The ‘Little England’ of Sri Lanka, is set against beautiful backdrops of Mountains, Valleys, Waterfalls and Tea Plantations. It is supposed to be one of the coolest places in the Island, but it is really just like an English spring day, although the temperature does drop at night. All around Nuwara Eliya you will see evidence of the British influence, houses like country cottages or Queen Ann style mansions. The Victoria Park, in the middle of the town, is a lovely place for a stroll or a picnic and is also good for Birding as you get some rare birds in this Park. Seasons may be absent elsewhere in Sri Lanka, but here you can read them by the flowers, which bloom in the spring (March to May) and the fall (August and September). These are the “seasons” when low-country folk flock to Nuwara Eliya to escape the sea level heat and humidity.
(Excursion will take approx: 1Hr)

Dinner & Overnight stay at
STANDARD – Galway Forest Lodge / Alpine Hotel / Oak Ray, Ramboda
DELUXE – Jetwing St Andrew’s Hotel / Araliya Green Hills/ Black Pool Hotel or similar

NUWARA ELIYA - COLOMBO - AIRPORT (B,L,D)

After breakfast Proceed to Colombo
(Travel time approx: 4 & 1/2hrs)

Lunch en – route at a restaurant – Sri Lankan Buffet Meal
Afternoon leave for Colombo & commence a city & shopping tour in Colombo
*Colombo - 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, where is also a Hindu Temple with elaborate stone carvings and the Dutch Church of Wolfendhal dating back to 1749. Also visit the BMICH, see the replica of Avukana Buddha & the Independence Square.

*Shopping in Colombo.......visit *ODEL Unlimited provides ample opportunity indulge, not only in shopping for designer wear apparel for the whole family, but also take taste buds on a voyage of discovery.
*BAREFOOT discover yourself at Barefoot - Toys Bags Clothes Handloom Fabric Sarongs Sarees - Household Linen Art Photography Books Furniture Gallery Café:
(Excursion will take approx: 2-3Hrs)

Dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Colombo– Set Menu
After dinner you will be transferred to the airport for your departure flight back to Singapore.
Have a safe flight!

SINGAPORE (Meals on board)

Arrive in Singapore.

Agency: C&E Holidays

7D5N Sri Lanka Culture

From $1039 SGD

Agency: C&E Holidays

7D5N Sri Lanka Culture

From $1039 SGD

Agency: C&E Holidays