Srilanka(Ashok Vatika) Tours
Duration: (07 days/06 Nights)Destinations:-Negombo-Pinnawala-Kandy-Ramboda-Nuwara Eliya-Bentota-Colombo
Welcome to Sri Lanka, the pearl of the Indian Ocean! In keeping with Sri Lankan tradition, all of us here to extend to you our heartiest “Ayubowan!” (Traditional Sri Lankan greeting wishing long life to the other). At the arrival and you will be warmly welcomed by a Representative and transferred to Negombo. Visit Manavari temple & Munneshwaram temple. Munneswaram Temple - Munneswaram Temple is the Place where the King Rama prayed to Shiva after committing the worst crime named as Brahmahasti. God Shiva blessed Lord Rama and advised him to install and praying four lingams at 5 places to get rid of dosham. One of the important Ramayana tour sites in Sri Lanka. Manavari Temple - Manavati Temple is the first place where Lord Rama installed and prayed the Siva lingam. At present this lingam at Manavari temple is named as Ramalinga as this lingam was erected by Rama. Both Munneswaram Temple & Manavari Temples are very important Ramayana tour place. On completion transfer to a hotel in Negombo. Check-In at the Hotel. If time permits, visit the Negombo fish market, Catholic Church and do a Negombo City Tour. Dinner & Overnight stay at Negombo (HB)
BREAKFAST AT HOTEL TRANSFER TO KANDY EN ROUTE VISIT TO PINNAWALA ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE SPICE GARDEN MAWANELLA VISIT TO GEM MUESUEM OVER NIGHT STAY IN KANDY. ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE-PINNAWALA Approx. 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 the 23 babies born, as a result of the captive breeding programme. The best time to visit is the feeding time from 0930-1000 hrs and 1330-1400 hrs and the bathing time from 1000-1030 hrs and 1400-1430 hrs when all the elephants are taken to the river close by. SPICE GARDEN-MAWANELLA Visit a spice garden in Mawanella to see many different types of spices Sri Lanka is famous for, Just 25 km from the hill capital of Kandy, You will be introduced to different spices and shown how some of these spices are grown and processed. Gardens are open to visitors, a delightful place to stroll in fragrant greenery and learn about nutmeg, pepper vines, clove trees and curry, cinnamon and the precious cardamom, a relative of ginger. It grows in the shade of high jungle trees and can only be harvested by hand.
BREAKFAST AT HOTEL VISIT TO TOOTH RELIC TEMPLE TRANSFER TO NUWARAELIYA EN ROUTE VISIT TO RAMBODA SRI ANJEYAR TEMPLE (RAMAYANA RELATED PLACE)RAMBODA FALLS VISIT TO TEA PLANTATION TEA FACTORY OVER NIGHT STAY IN NUWARAELIYA TOOTH RELIC TEMPLE Ever since 4th Century A.D,when the Buddha's Tooth was brought to Sri Lanka hidden from sacrilegious hands in an Orissan princess' hair, the Relic has grown in repute and holiness in Sri Lanka and throughout the Buddhist world. It is considered Sri Lanka's most prized possession. RAMBODA SRI ANJEYAR TEMPLE Sri Baktha Hanuman Temple,Ramboda. According to the ancient stories,Ramboda is an area, where the forces of Rama's gather to fight against King Ravana. NUWARAELIYA NuwaraEliya-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 NuwaraEliya to escape the sea level heat and humidity.
BREAKFAST AT HOTEL VISIT TO SEETHA AMMAN TEMPLE/ASOKA VATIKA(RAMAYANA RELATED PLACE)GREGORY LAKE RELAX OVER NIGHT STAY IN NUWARAELIYA SEETHA AMMAN TEMPLE The Sita Amman Temple dedicated to Sita, the wife of Lord Rama, situated in the hills of Nuwara Eliya, is treated with enduring devotion by Hindus as it is considered to be the only such temple in the world. Later transfer to Bentota South Beach. On reaching check into hotel. Overnight stay in Hotel. BENTOTA Bentota is famed as the prime beach resort of the south-western and southern coastal belts of Sri Lanka
BREAKFAST AT HOTEL VISIT TO MADU RIVER & DO A MANGROVE BOAT RIDE SAFARI VISIT TO TURTLE HATCHERY RELAX OVER NIGHT STAY IN BENTOTA MADU RIVER Make a magical speed-boat ride down the beautiful Madu River, a wetland estuary spreading over 900 hectares of which 770 hectares is covered with water and inhabited with 64 islands. The boat ride is a wonderful way to take a closer look at this complex wetland ecosystem; a wo rld heritage site protected by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands being one of the last wetlands in Sri Lanka to contain a pristine mangrove forest TURTLE HATCHERY They protect the mother from afar during the nesting process, until she finishes laying the eggs and returns to the ocean. The eggs are relocated from beach to hatchery to protect them from predators and irresponsible human action.
BREAKFAST AT HOTEL TRANSFER TO COLOMBO VISIT TO SRI ANJENEYAR TEMPLE,DEHIWALA(RAMAYANA RELATED PLACE)VISIT TO GANGARAMA TEMPLE DO A COLOMBO CITY TOUR DO SHOPPING AT ODEL & HOUSE OF FASHION OVER NIGHT STAY IN COLOMBO
Breakfast At Hotal Proceed To Airport For Departure