Welcome to Colombo! Arrive at the airport where you will be greeted by our representative and transferred to Kandy. Later enroute visit the famous Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage – which is a home to about 60 elephants. Also visit the nearby river. Return back to the hotel. Stay overnight at the hotel in Kandy.

After breakfast at the hotel, embark on the tour of Kandy. Some say Kandy is the only other real ‘city’ in Sri Lanka, other than Colombo. The easy-going capital of the Hill Country has a lot to offer – history, culture, forested hills and a touch of urban buzz. The highlights of the tour include visits to Upper Lake Drive, Market Square and the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic. The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic houses Sri Lanka’s most important Buddhist relic – a tooth of the Buddha. The tooth is said to have been snatched from the flames of the Buddha’s funeral pyre in 543 BC, and was smuggled into Sri Lanka during the 4th century AD, hidden in the hair of a princess. At first it was taken to Anuradhapura, but with the ups and downs of Sri Lankan history it moved from place to place before eventually ending up at Kandy. Other major attraction is the Royal Botanical Gardens, which was started in 1374 as a pleasure garden of the Kings of Gampola and Kandy. At the end of the day, return and spend the evening at leisure in the hot

Post a filling breakfast at the hotel, check-out and proceed to Colombo. Colombo, Sri Lanka’s capital, biggest city and major port, draws together all the colours and cultures that make up this island nation, condenses them into a patchwork of markets, gardens and buildings both humble and grand, and knocks them against a narrow slab of beachfront. You will appreciate Colombo’s colonial heritage, its fine dining and shopping opportunities, and the dash of urban buzz in an overwhelmingly rural country. Check-in to your hotel, relax and spend the rest of the day and the overnight stay at leisure.

After breakfast at the hotel, proceed for a morning city tour of Colombo. The tour will take you to the busy commercial areas as well as the tree-lined residential, Cinnamon Gardens. One of the first stops on the route is the Fort. During the European era Fort was indeed a fort, surrounded by the sea on two sides and a moat on the landward sides. Today it’s a curious mix of brash modern structures, such as the World Trade Center, and venerable red-brick institutions from the Colonial-era, such as Cargills and Millers. You are also taken to visit Sea Street – the Goldsmiths quarters, where you will also find a Hindu temple with elaborate stone carvings. Nearby is the Wolvendaal Church, the most important Dutch building in Sri Lanka. When the church was built in 1749, this area was a wilderness beyond the city walls. The Europeans mistook the packs of roaming jackals for wolves, and the area became known as Wolf’s Dale, or Wolvendaal in Dutch. The historic Dewatagaha Mosque and the former Eye Hospital are two buildings in Cinnamon Gardens worth visiting. Also visit the BMICH (Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall), see the replica of Avukana Buddha and the Independence Square. Return and stay overnight at the hotel.

After breakfast, check-out from the hotel. You will be transferred to the airport to board your flight back home.