Week Trip Ceylon

About this tour

DAY 02 – Elephant Orphanage and Temple of the tooth

· you will travel to visit the Pinnawala elephant orphanage.
· Elephant Orphanage, an institution that has been looking after orphaned or injured elephants that would otherwise have surely died.
· If you leave the hotel early then you can watch the elephant’s bath in  the river after the youngest babies are milk fed.
· Then travel to Kandy to visit the Temple of the Tooth.
· View a cultural dance in the evening. Kandy, the last seat of the Sinhala Kings, is a very popular destination for visitors from home and abroad.
· Overnight stay at Kandy.

DAY 03 – Nuwara Eliya and Nuwara Eliya  Hortain Plains.

.Witness the breathtaking cascade of Lovers Leap Waterfall, surrounded by lush greenery and offering a tranquil setting for relaxation and photography , Spend some time at Lake Gregory, where you can enjoy boating, picnicking, and leisurely walks along the lakeside promenade.

· Horton Plains is a unique natural attraction in Sri Lanka.
· It is located on the highest plateau of the country and it’s known for its beautiful landscapes and rare plant and animal life.
· The Horton plains is one of the most important catchment areas in Sri Lanka which acts as a giant sponge that stores rainwater and then feeds several major rivers of the country throughout the year.

· The vegetation mainly consists of wet grasslands and Montana forests. The weather at Horton Plains is quite dynamic. The average temperature varies between 5 degrees Celsius to 27 degrees Celsius.
· The Kelani River (the broadest river in Sri Lanka) flowing through Kitulgala was the main location where the Oscar-winning movie Bridge on the River Kwai was filmed.

. Yala, one of the island’s most popular wildlife parks where you could see all most all the animals which are found in Sri Lanka.
· One of Sri Lanka‘s premier eco-tourism destinations, lies 24km northeast of Tissamaharama and 290km from Colombo on the southeast coast of Sri Lanka, spanning a vast 97,878 hectares over the Southern and Uva Provinces.
· The vegetation in the park comprises predominantly semi-arid thorny scrub, interspersed with pockets of fairly dense secondary forest. Small patches of mangrove vegetation also occur along the coastal lagoons.
· The park is renowned for the variety of its Wildlife (most notably its many elephants) and its fine coastline (with associated coral reefs).
· It also boasts a large number of important cultural ruins, bearing testimony to earlier civilizations and indicating that much of the area used to be populated and well-developed.