Kandy and Pinnawela Full Day Tour
En route to Kandy, visit an elephant orphanage in Pinnawela. The orphanage is home to about 60 elephants including a number of baby elephants.
The next stop is the 147 acre Royal Botanical Gardens at Peradeniya followed by a visit to Kandy - the last capital of the Sri Lankan kings and a World Heritage Site. Here you will enjoy lunch at the Hotel Suisse then embark on a sightseeing tour of Kandy town, bazaar, the arts and craft centre, a gem museum and Lake Drive.
Visit the Temple of the Tooth which houses the Sacred Tooth Relic of Buddha and then to a tea plantation and a spice garden to complete the tour.
Cost from $116 per person. Valid 01Mar-31Oct08.
Colombo City Half Day Tour
Visit Colombo’s places of interest including the commercial area of the ‘Fort’, ‘Pettah’ - a lively oriental bazaar filled with culture, Hindu and Buddhist temples and the Jumi-ul Alfar Jumma Mosque as well as the Wolvenhal Dutch Church, Hultsdorf Law Courts, the residential area of Cinnamon Gardens, the Independence Square and the National Museum.
Cost from $39 per person. Valid 01Mar-31Oct08.
Sigiriya and Dambulla Full Day Tour
Travel to Sigiriya to climb the 5th century Sigiriya Rock Fortress which is listed as a World Heritage Site, built by King Kashyapa (477-495 AD). View the ‘Lion Rock’, a citadel of unusual beauty rising 200 meters from the scrub jungle. You can see the world renowned frescoes of the ‘Heavenly Maidens’ of Sigiriya.
After the climb, enjoy lunch and then proceed to Dambulla to visit the Dambulla Rock Temple. Climb up the temple which is also a World Heritage Site and is the most impressive of Sri Lanka’s cave temples. The complex of 5 caves with over 2000 square meters of painted walls and ceiling is the largest area of paintings found in the world.
Cost from $232 per person. Valid 01Mar-31Oct08.
Galle and Hikkaduwa Full Day Tour
En route to Galle, visit a mask factory and workshop at Ambalangoda and view the corals from a glass bottom boat at Hikkaduwa. Take a city tour of Galle, which was once a chief port of Ceylon named by the British. Now listed as a World Heritage Site and still well known for its hand made lace.
You will also visit the Galle Fort, spanning 90 acres which was originally built by the Portuguese and later extended by the Dutch in 1663. There is also a very interesting Dutch Museum located close by. Enjoy lunch at Lady Hill Hotel then visit a Turtle hatchery before you head back to Colombo.
Cost from $109 per person. Valid 01Mar-31Oct08.
