12-Day Classical tour

Ayubowan! You have arrived to Sri Lanka
A warm and truly Sri Lankan welcome at the Airport, where representative of Jetwing travels will be on hand to great you.
Transfer to NuwaraEliya.
Lunch at Restaurant
Arrival at Hotel and check inn to rooms.
Rest of the day at leisure.
Dinner & overnight stay at Hotel

After breakfast, proceed to Kandy. En route visit a Tea Plantation and a Factory.
Visit Tea Plantation and Tea factory
Continue to Kandy
Arrive and check in to hotel
In the evening witness a cultural show featuring traditional Sri Lankan dancing and thereafter visit the Temple of the Tooth Relic.
Dinner and Overnight stay

After breakfast, visit the elephant orphanage at Pinnawala is a home for about 60 elephants (out of which some are baby elephants) found abandoned or orphaned in the wild. They are being cared, fed and trained by the wild life authority. The best time for your visit is at 9.00 in the morning. Then you will be able to see these ‘babes’ being bottle-fed. You could also accompany the elephants to a river close by to see them having their daily baths.
Lunch at Pinnalanda Restaurant
Do a city tour of Kandy. Kandy was the last capital of the Sri Lankan kings, and is a World Heritage Site. The name Kandy conjures visions of splendour and magnificence. Many of the legends, traditions and folklore are still lovingly kept alive. Drive around the Kandy Lake built by the last Sinhala king Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe in 1798. Visit the Kandy town and Bazaar, the arts & crafts centre and a gem museum and a lapidary. Visit the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens. This botanical garden was first built as a pleasure garden by a Sinhala king and was expanded by the British. It is 147 acres in extent and provides an amazing variety of trees, plants and flowers.
Dinner and overnight stay at Hotel

After breakfast, proceed to Dambulla.
En route visit the Batik Factory.
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. Witness a Cookery demonstration + massage.
Lunch at the Spice garden (typical Sri Lankan rice & curry)
In the afternoon, proceed to Kandy.
Visit the Dambulla Rock Temple. Climb up to the temple, which was donated by king Walagambahu in the 1st century BC to Buddhist monks. Dambulla is a World Heritage site and is the most impressive of Sri Lanka's cave temples. The complex of five caves with over 2000 sq. meters of painted walls and the ceiling is the largest area of paintings found in the world. These caves contain over 150 images of the Buddha of which the largest is the colossal figure of the Buddha carved out of rock spanning 14 meters.
Dinner and overnight stay at Hotel

After breakfast, proceed to Sigiriya. Climb the 5th century Sigiriya rock fortress which is a world heritage site, built by King Kashyapa (477-495 AD). The 'Lion Rock' is a citadel of unusual beauty rising 200 metres from the scrub jungle. The rock was the innermost stronghold of the 70 hectare fortified town. A moat, rampart, and extensive gardens including the renowned water gardens ring the base of the rock. Visit the world-renowned frescoes of the 'Heavenly Maidens' of Sigiriya, which are in a sheltered pocket of the rock approached by a spiral stairway. These frescoes are painted in earth pigments on plaster.
Transfer to Polonnaruwa.
Lunch at Siyanco Holiday Resort.
Visit a wood carving factory. Then visit Polonnaruwa, which was the 2nd capital city of Sri Lanka, built in the 11th and 12th centuries AD, and which is a world heritage site. Here you can see the ruins of the Royal Palace, the Gal Viharaya -where 4 splendid statues of the Buddha in 'Upright', 'Sedentary' and 'Recumbent' postures carved out of rock, the Audience Hall, the Lotus Bath, king Parakramabahu's statue, and the Parakrama Samudraya lake built by King Parakramabahu the great. There are also monuments of famous places of worship such as the Shiva Temple, the Lankathilake, the Watadage, the Galpotha, the Kiri Vehera and the remains of a former Temple of the Tooth Relic.
Return to Habarana
Dinner and Overnight stay at Hotel

After breakfast, proceed to Anuradhapura.
Visit Anuradhapura. It was the first capital and undoubtedly the grandest city of the ancient Sri Lanka. It is the home of two World Heritage sites. Many places of historical and archaeological interest could be visited. Sri Maha Bodhi (Sacred Bo-Tree) was brought as a sapling of the tree under which prince Siddhartha attained to enlightenment and it is over 2,200 years old and is the oldest historically documented tree in the world. At Brazen Palace (2nd century B.C), the 1600 stone columns you see are all that is left of a magnificent multi-storied residence for monks. Ruwanweliseya (2nd century B.C) is the most famous of all the Dagobas. It originally depicted the perfect 'bubble shape" that modern restoration has not been able to accurately reproduce. 'Samadhi' Buddha statue (4th century AD) is one of the most famous statues, depicting the Buddha in a state of 'Samadhi' or deep meditation. Isurumuniya rock temple (3rd century B.C) is well known for its rock carvings of 'The Lovers'. Kuttam Pokuna - twin ponds (6th century AD) was used by the Buddhist monks as a bathing pool. Thuparama Dagoba (3rd century B.C) is the oldest Dagoba in the island, which enshrines the right collarbone of the Buddha.
Lunch at Galway Miridiya Hotel. Return to Habarana. Stop at Hiriwaduna, remote village situated few kilometers away from habarana. Client’s will experience a typical bullock cart ride.
Dinner and Overnight stay at Hotel

Breakfast at the hotel, Transfer to Trincomalee
Arrive and check in to the hotel.
Rest of the day leisure at the hotel
Dinner and overnight stay at Hotel

Full day leisure at the hotel on FB basis.

Full day leisure at the hotel on FB basis.

Full day leisure at the hotel on FB basis.

Breakfast at the hotel, Transfer to Colombo.
Arrive and check in to the hotel
Dinner and overnight stay at Hotel

After breakfast transfer to the airport for departure