Day 01: Arrive Colombo
On arrival at international airport you will be met and transferred to the hotel.

Colombo the capital of Srilanka and is located on the west coast of the island. The city is a bustling metropolis, the city is an attractive blend of old and new. It has the lazy charm of the bygone era combined with the verve and vivaciousness of a modern city. Colombo is an ideal location to start the Sri Lanka sojourn.nad the city is also home to a majority of the Srilanka corporate office and entertainment venues. 

In the morning you will proceed for a city sightseeing tour

Visit the Fort, Slave Island, where the slaves had their night quarters, Mount Lavinia – the famous beach, Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara – the famous Buddhist temple, Wolvendaal Church – the oldest Dutch church. Also visit House of Fashion, ODEL, Noritake ceramic shop & a local souvenir shop.

Stay overnight at your hotel.

Day 02: Colombo - Kandy
After breakfast you leave Colombo and the coast and drive along a busy highway into the interior of the island, past paddy fields, palm-groves and coconut plantations.

In Pinnewela you visit the elephant orphanage, where about seventy elephants are well looked after, mostly young animals that have been found throughout the coun- try sick and abandoned by their herd and brought to Pinnewela. If you are lucky, you can watch the feeding or the daily bath in the river of the jumbos.

After this visit the road begins to ascend gradually. You stop for a short visit of a tea factory where you will learn in details, how the green tea leaves are treated to become high-quality Ceylon Tea. After this stop you will enjoys a beautiful panoramic view of the central highland with its hills and mountains.

At noon you reach, the old royal city of Kandy, situated at 500 m, beautifully nestled between green hills. At its very centre lie a small artificial lake and the palace of the last Singhalese king which has become a temple and the holiest shrine in Sri Lanka, where the tooth relic of Lord Buddha is highly venerated.

In the afternoon short city-tour of Kandy.

In the evening you will pay a visit to the temple of the holy tooth. After the temple visit you have the opportunity to attend a dance performance, where you will see the famous Kandyan dances, as well as up-country and devil dances.

Stay overnight at the hotel.
 
Day 03: Kandy - Dambulla - Sigiriya - Giritale
In the morning after breakfast visit of the world-famous Botanical Garden Peradeniya. The park dates back to 1371 under the reign of king Vikrama Bahu III when he held court here. The English put the cornerstone of the present garden in 1821. During the Second World War the garden served as headquarters of Earl Mountbatten, the supreme commander of the allied forces in Southeast Asia who became later the last Viceroy of India. You will find in the garden a very large variety of orchids, spice trees, palms, bushes, as well as tropical plants and flowers of all type.Lunch en route. You will leave now the central hill county, proceeding north. Along the road you will see paddy fields, coconut groves, rubber and spice gardens and plantations. You will stop at one of the spice gardens there you can see a lot of trees, bushes andplants cropping spices.

Later in Dambulla you will ascend for a visit of the most impressive of all the many cave temples in Sri Lanka. The Raj Maha Vihara temple complex consists of five separate caverns with numerous statues of the Buddha and Hindu deities. The ceilings of the caves are fully illustrated with paintings mostly from the many lives of the Buddha. The history of the caves dates back to the 1st Century BC when this place served as refuge to the king Valagam Bahu being driven out of Anuradhapura by invading armies from South India. After the king returned to his capital,the caves became a Buddhist sanctuary. The next visit will be to the Sigiriya rock. This impressive monolith whichrises 200 m out of the jungle has been transformed in the 5th Century by king Kassapa into a fortress and became his capital as he feared for his life. On top of the rock was the king’s palace "The Heaven-Castle", what remains today are only foundation walls of this once magnificent building and the many fortifications. What remains to be seen and is worth the difficult climb are the phenomenal frescoes of the Sigiriya Maidens. No one knows whom the seductive beauties, painted in brilliant colors on the rock walls, represent. One can think of them as heaven-dwelling nymphs from a realm of radiant light.

After this visit, the driver will take you to the hotel for overnight stay.

Day 04: Giritale - Polonnaruwa - Giritale
In the morning you will drive to Polonnaruwa

The most famous Singhalese king Parakrama Bahu the Great (1153-1186) has built in the environs of Polonnaruwa an impressive irrigation system with many artificial tanks inter-connected with irrigation channels.

The reservoir near Polonnaruwa has been until recently, when the large dams were built in the mountains, the largest and most beautiful artificial lake.

Later return to your hotel for overnight stay.

Day 05: Giritale - Anuradhapura - Colombo
In the morning you will leave to Anuradhapura in order to visit a selection of the most remarkable sights.

As per written records Anuradhapura has been made royal capital by the king Panduk Anhaya in 380 BC. It remained residence and royal capital for 119 successive Singhalese kings till the year 1000 AC when it was abandoned and the capital moved to Polonnaruwa. You will see some of the most famous as well as the tallest dagoba of Sri Lanka, remains from palaces, temples, monasteries, ceremonial baths and the temple of the holy Bo-tree. This tree was grown from a sapling of the very tree under which more than 2500 years ago the Buddha found enlightenment.

After the visit of Anuradhapura you leave for Colombo with lunch en route, on the way you pass paddy fields, coconut plantations and huge areas with rubber trees and plantations.

Later return to your hotel for overnight stay.

Day 06: Colombo Departure
In the morning you will be free for your independent activities.

Late evening as per scheduled you will be transferred to airport to the flight for onward journey.