Misty Hill Country Sri Lanka


Few, if any, small islands have as much geographical diversity and Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hills offer breathtaking landscapes. Drive into the highlands from Kandy and discover Sri Lanka at its most dramatic: a land of gurgling mountain streams and steep hillsides cloaked in luminous green tea, sweet-scented Cyprus and Eucalyptus trees. Nuwara Eliya, nestled at the foot of a mountain, was made into a summer retreat by the British in the early 1800s.

 

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Day 01 - Warmly meet and great at the airport and proceed to Negambo.

 

Warmly meet and great at the airport and proceed to Negambo. Check in at your specified beach hotel and spend the afternoon at full leisure.

Negombo Beach was Sri Lanka's first beach resort and is not only an ideal place to start or end your holiday in Sri Lanka. Conveniently located only a few kilometers from Sri Lanka's International Airport, Negombo offers wide beaches. In Negombo you find some of the best dream spots for wakeboarding, wake surfing and wake skating. Regardless of the time of the day you always get the most perfect conditions.

 

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Day 02 – Kandy via Pinnawela

After breakfast visit the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage in time to witness the bathing and bottle feeding of the baby elephants. (40 km – transfer time approx. 1 hour)Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage Among the green hills of Kegalle, about 50 miles (85km) from Colombo on the road to Kandy in the hill country, a herd of about 60 elephants roam free in the Pinnewela Elephant Orphanage.

This popular attraction, established as a sanctuary covering 25 acres of lush forest by the Sri Lankan Government in 1975, is unique. Its purpose is to feed, nurse and house young elephants lost or abandoned by their mothers. Recently the sanctuary has also started a breeding programme. Visitors are invited to observe and assist the baby elephants as they are fed from giant feeding bottles, before the pachyderms plod down to the river for their daily bath.

Vist the Royal Botanical Garde:

Royal Botanical Garden in Peradeniya is located in close proximity to the city of Kandy. It is renowned for the collection the variety of Orchids,and has more than 300 varieties of Orchids, spices, medicinal plants and palms trees attach it is the National Herbarium. Total land mass of the botanical garden is 147 acres, 460 Meters above sea level with a 200 day annual rain fall. It is one of the most famoust tourist sites and a must see site in Sri Lanka.it is one of the most popular tourist sites.

Sightseeing tour of Kandy including a visit to the Temple of the Tooth, upper lake drive and market square.

Temple of the Tooth Relic:

Dalada Maligawa or the Temple of the sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy is the most venerated place of worship for Buddhists throughout the world. Built in the 16th century this temple houses the sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha brought to Sri Lanka from the Kalinga province in ancient India in the 4th century AD. Several buildings have been added to the temple complex by successive rulers, the latest being the Golden Canopy over the inner shrine where the Tooth Relic is placed. Originally the Temple was within the King's palace complex as it was the symbol of Royal Authority

 

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Day 03- Mathaley- Knuckles Mountain Range 

The Knuckles Mountain Range lies in central Sri Lanka, north-east of the city of Kandy. The range takes its name from a series of recumbent folds and peaks in the west of the massif which resemble the knuckles of clenched fist when viewed from certain locations in the Kandy District. Whilst this name was assigned by early British surveyors, the Sinhalese residents have traditionally referred to the area as Dumbara Kanduvetiya meaning mist-laden mountain range (Cooray, 1984). The entire area is characterised by its striking landscapes often robed in thick layers of cloud but in addition to its aesthetic value the range is of great scientific interest. It is a climatic microcosm of the rest of Sri Lanka. The conditions of all the climatic zones in the country are exhibited in the massif. At higher elevations there is a series of isolated cloud forests, harbouring a variety of flora and fauna, some of which cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Although the range constitutes approximately 0.03% of the island’s total area it is home to a significantly higher proportion of the country’s biodiversity.


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Day 04 – Nuwara Elliya 

After breakfast  proceed to Nuwara Eliya via Ramboda Falls (80km – transfer time 3 hours). En route visiting a Tea Fatcory, Tea Garden  and some beautiful water falls.

Nuwara Eliya. This town seems like a piece of English district. Tudor-style and Victorian homes look across the blue lake. These buildings are the other architectural monuments to the English, the Post Office, the English country house like Hill Club with its hunting pictures, mounted hunting trophies and fish, Anglican Church and private residence. The Golf course here is one of the best in Asia.

P.M. Walking sightseeing tour of Nuwara Eliya city.

 

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Day 05 – Proceed to Horton Plains

After breakfast Excursion to Horton Plains Nature & Wild Life Reserve. (30km – transfer time approx. 1 hour)

Short trek to Worlds End & Bakers Falls.

The Horton Plains National Park is the only National Park situated in the Hill Country and falls within the Nuwara Eliya district and is 200 km. away from Colombo. Panoramic scenic beauty of the Hill Country could be witnessed within the Park. The famous `Worlds End' is a major attraction within the Park. Endemic slender loris and endemic purple monkey are among the important animal species that could be seen in addition to sambhur, a member of the cat family etc. There is some endemic avifauna also found within this Park.

Evening: at leisure.

 

 

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Day 06 – Bandarawela

 

After breakfast you will be transferred to Nanu Oya railway station for a short train journey to Bandarawela.

Bandarawela is an unhurried, unpretentious hill-country town which exists to supply the needs of the tea plantation workers, farmers and its hardworking inhabitants. The people of Bandarawela enjoy a simple way of life; where school children and grandparents together work the family plot for the home’s requirement of fruit and vegetable and also tend their cattle and goats.

Another distinctive feature of Bandarawela is the colonial flavor still preserved in the many old buildings including the Bandarawela Hotel and the old Cargill’s Supermarket.

P.M. visit the Adisham Bungalow in Haputale.

This is an old Benedictine monastery built in the shape of a small castle.

(You may be able to buy fresh fruit jams/preserves and juices prepared by the monks from fruit grown in their garden.)

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Day 07 - Kithulgala / Colombo

After breakfast transfer to Kitulgala, (105 Km – transfer time 2 hours) a little town on the banks of the Kelani River and the film location of the famous movie "Bridge on the River Kwai".

Begin Whitewater rafting excursion. The rafting begins further upstream which winds down through lush forests, hills and sand bars, taking approximately 02 hrs and ends back at the Plantation Hotel. The short but exhilarating rafting programme is level three.

P.m. You will be transferred to the Colombo (90 Km – transfer time 2 &1/2

 

Day 08 – After breakfast proceed to Airport for departure

 

You can proceed to Airpirt or transfer for a beach stay

 

 

 

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