Date |
Event |
August 02, Saterday |
Kap Situweema and Perahera within Devala precincts |
August 03, Sunday |
Perahera within four devala precincts |
August 04, Monday |
Do |
August 05, Tuesday |
Do |
August 06, Wednesday |
Do |
August 07, Thursday |
1st Kumbal Perahera |
August 08, Friday |
2 nd Kumbal Perahera |
August 09, Saterday |
3 rd Kumbal Perahera |
August10, Sunday |
4 th Kumbal Perahera |
August 11, Monday |
5 th Kumbal Perahera |
August 12, Tuesday |
1 st Randoli Perahera |
August 13, Wednesday |
2 nd Randoli Perahera |
August 14, Thursday |
3 rd Randoli Perahera |
August 15, Friday |
4 th Randoli Perahera |
August 16, Saterday |
5 th Randoli Perahera |
August 17, Sunday |
Day Perahera |
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Day No: 1
Description: On arrival you will be met by the Jetwing Travels Representative. (For assistance please call our 24hrs on line mobile no ++94 777
287837.
Over night stay at GALLE FACE HOTEL,REGENCY Colombo.
Day No: 2
Description: After breakfast leave early around 0700 hrs to Dambulla, en-rout visit the Elephant Orphanage in Pinnawela. Thereafter proceed to Dambulla and visit the Cave Temples.
Overnight Stay at AMAYA LAKE 4 *, Dambulla
Day No: 3
Description: After a very early breakfast visit and climb the Sigiriya Rock Fortress. Thereafter proceed to Polonnaruwa for sight seeing.
Overnight Stay at AMAYA LAKE 4 *, Dambulla
Day No: 4
Description: After breakfast proceed to Kandy. En-rout visit a spice garden and a Batic factory in Matale. Afterwards visit a Batik Factory where you can see the manufacture of beautiful Batik prints. These shops contain a wide variety of Batik items.
Thereafter proceed to Kandy and check in at the Amaya Hills. If you happen to travel between 7th – 16th August 2008 you will get the rare opportunity to witness the famous Kandy Perahara.
Overnight stay at AMAYA HILLS 4*, Kandy.
Day No: 5
Description: After breakfast visit the Royal Botanical Gardens in Peradeniya. On completion return to the hotel and spend the rest of the day at leisure.
Overnight stay at AMAYA HILLS 4*, Kandy.
Day No: 6
Description: After breakfast leave for Nuwara Eliya, en-rout visiting a Tea Plantation. Proceed to Nuwara Eliya and check in at the hotel.
Over night stay at JETWING ST ANDREW’S HOTEL (Colonial), Nuwara Eliya.
Day No: 7
Description: After breakfast visit the Horton Plains National Park.
Over night stay at JETWING ST ANDREW’S HOTEL (Colonial), Nuwara Eliya.
Day No: 8
Description: After breakfast leave for Yala via Ella. Evening Jeep Safari at Yala National Park.
Overnight stay at YALA VILLAGE 3*, Yala.
Day No: 9
Description: After breakfast leave for the beach stay and get dropped off at preferred beach hotel
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PINNAWELA ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE - App. 55 miles from Colombo , off the Colombo - Kandy road is Pinnawela, where an orphanage was started in 1975 to house the abandoned and the wounded elephants. The number of elephants has increased to more than 65 now; including Baby Elephants brought from various parts, as well as some of the more then 25 babies born, as a result of the captive breeding programme. The best time to visit is the feeding time from 0915-0945 hrs and 1415-1445 hrs and the bathing time from 1000-11.00 hrs and 1500-1600 hrs when all the elephants are taken to the river close by. POLONNARUWA – is another “UNESCO World Heritage Site” was the Capital of Sri Lanka from 11th - 13th Centuries, contains some splendid and spectacular statues.
Lankatilake, Tivanka and Thuparama are the most beautiful and largest Image Houses and Tivanka has the best examples of frescoes of the Polonnaruwa period. Rankoth Vehera and Kirivehera are well preserved large stupas, and Gal Vihare - a rock shrine, has four Buddha statues, two seated, one standing and one reclining and Parakrama Bahu statue are examples of Sinhalese stone carver. The Vata-da-ge is a unique creation of the Sri Lankan artists. The medieval capital, Polonnaruwa was fortified with inner & outer moats and inner & outer walls. The Parakrama Samudra is on the western side of the city. The Royal Palace , Audience Hall and other buildings in the inner city were enclosed by another tall wall.
ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS - 147 acres in extent; Started in 1374 as a pleasure garden of the Kings of Gampola and Kandy . There are more than 4,000 species of trees, plants and creepers. Some rare and endemic as well as flora from the tropical world are found in the gardens. Spice Garden and Orchid House are popular with tourists. There are 5 Palm Avenues beautifying the gardens, the earliest and tallest Palm Avenue ( Royal Palm Avenue ) was planted in 1905 and the Double Coconuts from the Seashells Island , with the largest seed of all plants in the world is one such avenue. NUWARA ELIYA - The ‘Little England' of Sri Lanka , is set against beautiful backdrops of Mountains, Valleys, Waterfalls and Tea Plantations. It is supposed to be one of the coolest places in the Island , but it is really just like an English spring day, although the temperature does drop at night. All around Nuwara Eliya you will see evidence of the British influence, houses like country cottages or Queen Ann style mansions. The Victoria Park, in the middle of the town, is a lovely place for a stroll or a picnic and is also good for Birding as you get some rare birds in this Park. Seasons may be absent elsewhere in Sri Lanka , but here you can read them by the flowers, which bloom in the spring (march to May) and the fall (August and September). These are the “seasons” when low-country folk flock to Nuwara Eliya to escape the sea level heat and humidity.
HORTON PLAINS NATIONAL PARK - 20 miles (32 km) from Nuwara Eliya via Ambewela and Pattipola, is the Horton Plains only 3160 hectares in extent. Known to Sri Lankans as Mahaeliya, it became Horton Plains after Sir Robert Horton, British Governor from 1831- 1837. Horton Plains became a Nature Reserve in 1969 and upgraded as a National Park in 1988 due to its unique watershed and bio-diversity values. Its flora has high level of endemism. The hills are covered with diverse wet low evergreen forest with even large trees grown flattened to the ground on the higher windswept slopes. Horton Plains harbours 52 species of resident birds and 11 species of migrant birds. More then 2,000 to 3,000 Sambhur, Bear Monkey, Leopard, Barking Deer, Giant Squirrel, Fishing Cat, Wild Boar and Hares roam in the forests and grasslands but only seldom they could be seen other than the Sambhur in the evening and morning. For accommodation Ginihiriya Bungalow (Anderson Lodge) with 4 DBL rooms and 2 separate dormitories (Vana Nivahana) serve for groups.Two escarpments- “World's End” and “Little World's End” falling from the Horton Plains 1000 feet and 3000 feet respectively, to the land below and the Baker's Falls are places you should visit. This is the only National Park where visitors could walk on their own in the designated tracks.
  YALA (RUHUNA) NATIONAL PARK - the Ruhunu National Park covers 126,786 hectares including the Strict Natural Reserve (Block II). The most familiar is Block I (14,101 hectares) and this were established in 1938. Yala is famous for its big herds and large number of Elephants, Leopards, Spotted Deer, Sambhur, Crocodiles, Mongoose, Wild Boar, Wild Buffalo, and many other animals. More than 130 bird species are recorded which includes the resident and winter visitors. There are 7 Bungalows inside the Park with few Camp Sites . |