Grand Tour 10 Days Sri Lanka Tour

Ayubowan! You have arrived to Sri Lanka
A warm and truly Sri Lankan welcome at the Airport and Transfer to Colombo.
Lunch at Hotel
Afternoon do a city tour in Colombo.

After breakfast transfer to Pinnawala.
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
Proceed to Dambulla
Visit 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. metres 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 metres.
Continue to Sigiriya
Dinner and overnight stay at Hotel

After breakfast, proceed to Anuradhapura. Visit AnAuradhapura. 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 Mridiya Lodge
Transfer to Aukana, Undoubtedly, the most magnificent undamaged ancient image in the island. This 5th Century statue, ascribed to King Dhatusena, is 46 feet high, standing in an image house of which remains could be seen. It is situated 32 miles (51 kilometers) south-east of Anuradhapura via the great tank of Kalawewa. This is the most beautiful rock-cut standing Buddha Statue in the Island, if not the entire world
Dinner and overnight stay at Hotel

Breakfast at Hotel. Proceed to Polonaruwa.
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.
Lunch at Siyanco Holiday resort

Visit a wood carving Factory.
Proceed to Sigiriya
Visiti Sigiriya - -the “Fortress in the Sky” and see the remains of the Palace on the summit, Lion-staircase, Sigiri Graffiti- the verses written on the Mirror Wall, Paintings of the Damsels-Light coloured (Vijjulatha) and Dark coloured (Megalatha) in "fresco-en-secco" and the beautifully designed Pleasure Garden (Water garden, boulder garden), the caves with pre-Christian inscriptions, remains of inner & outer fortifications.
Dinner and overnight stay at Hotel

After breakfast, proceed to Kandy
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.
In the evening witness a cultural show featuring traditional Sri Lankan dancing, thereafter visit the Temple of the Tooth Relic
Dinner and Overnight stay at Hotel

After breakfast, 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
Lunch at Senani Restaurant

Afternoon vist Kandy town bazzar, art & craft centre and a gem lapidary.
Walk through the Kandy Lake and do some free shopping
Return to Hotel
Dinner and Overnight stay at Hotel

After breakfast, Proceed to Nuwara Eliya.Enroute visit a tea plantation and a factory.
Lunch at Ramboda Falls Hotel
Visit Nuwara Eliya. Nuwara Eliya, because of its invigorating mountain climate and scenery, is Sri Lanka's most popular hill resort. Nuwara Eliya is also the heart of Sri Lanka's tea country producing a significant share of the world's best tea. Sri Lanka's highest mountain Pidurutalagala (8282 feet) is located here. Nuwara-Eliya also has one of the finest 18 hole golf courses in South Asia.
Dinner and Overnight stay at Hotel

Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to Yala
En route visit Elaa gap & Ravana Falls
Lunch at the restaurant
Afternoon do a safari in Yala National Park
The park consists of 97,878ha. The altitude is 90m from sea level. The vegetation in this park comprises secondary forest, possibly a few hundred years old at the most. It is predominantly semi-arid thorny-scrub, interspersed with pockets of fairly dense forest. Small patches of mangrove vegetation occur along the costal lagoons. Yala is renowned for the variety of its wildlife and its fine coastline and associated coral reefs. A large number of important cultural ruins bear testimony to earlier civilizations and indicate that, much of the area was populated and well developed

Your best chance to see a leopard is generally first thing in the morning and then again at dusk. The male leopards in Yala are very confident animals and they are often seen walking the tracks during the day. Young males in particular seem to have no fear of the jeep, which can lead to some excellent photographic opportunities.
Dinner and overnight stay at Hotel

After breakfast leave for Negombo via Matara/Galle.
Stop at Dikwella, where there is one of the most amazing Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka. The Wewurukannala Vihara temple is dominated by an image of a seated Buddha. It is 160ft high, the largest statue in all of Sri Lanka and dates back to the time of King Rajadhi (1782 - 1798).
Visit Matara Fort: Built by the Dutch around 1640, Matara Fort is a fortification of a Portuguese garrison. The Old Dutch church is one of the oldest structures in the Fort. There are many other structures of the Dutch and the British era most of which have undergone many changes. The star fort built in a shape of a star was built to provide additional protection to the main fort across the river.
Proceed to Galle.
Lunch at Rampart hotel
After lunch visit the Galle city; this is one of the ancient cities in Sri Lanka. It was known as Gimhathiththa before the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th century, when it became the country's main port. Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Romans and Indians conducted business through Galle.
The modern history of Galle started in 1505, when the first Portuguese ship, under Lourenco de Almeida, was driven there by a storm. Early in November 1505 the Viceroy's son Dom Lourenco was sent by his father with a fleet of nine vessels to attack the Moorish 1 spice ships which were reported to be making for the Red Sea by way of the Maldives, when adverse winds drove him to the coast of Ceylon in the neighborhood of Galle.
There after proceed to Negombo

Dinner and overnight stay at Hotel

After breakfast transfer to airport for departure.