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Sri Lanka Hill Country 3 Days Tour


Sri Lanka 3 days tour enables you to explore some of the important attractions in Colombo, Nuwara Eliya and Kandy at your own pace. The tour unveils the most scenic part of Sri Lanka with green-capped mountains, cascading waterfalls and tea gardens.

This is a private tour and the package includes many interesting places such as the elephant orphanage, the temple of the tooth relic, the Royal botanical garden, Kandy Lake, the Tea factory and shopping in Colombo. Entry into all important and popular attractions is free with your 3 days tour.

Sri Lanka 3 days tour allow you to see and shopping in the largest city of Sri Lanka, Colombo. This is a private tour and has a fascinating blend of historical, natural and cultural attractions. Your ticket gives you complete flexibility to hop on and off the car at all of the major attractions, allowing you to plan your day as you please.


Includes

  • Accommodation in tourist hotels on H/B Basis (daily breakfast and dinner included)
  • Discount voucher of 10% at a Jewelry shop (only in Colombo or Kandy)
  • Discount voucher 5% to shop at Noritake Lanka Porcelain in Colombo
  • Discount voucher 5% to shop at Spice garden in Kandy
  • Ramboda waterfalls
  • Service of a national tour guide throughout the tour
  • Entire ground transportation as per the tour itinerary in an air-conditioned vehicle
  • Entrance fees for the following site
    • Sita Amman temple
    • Hanuman temple
    • Guided walking tour at the Spice garden
    • Guided trek to Ramboda waterfall
    • Guided tour at the Tea factory
    • Tea estate
    • Tea tasting
    • hop-in and hop-off Colombo Sightseeing tour
    • Kandy sightseeing tour
    • Nuwara Eliya city tour
    • Viharamahadevi (Colombo)
    • Cinnamon garden
    • Beira lake
    • Gangarama temple
    • Meeting arrangements at the airport on arrival and departure
    • All government taxes

Trip excludes

  • Entrance fees for optional sites and activities
  • Pinnawala elephant orphanage (USD 18 P.P)
  • Botanical garden (USD 10 P.P)
  • Tooth temple Kandy (USD 10 P.P)
  • Haggala botanical garden/ashok vatika (USD 10 P.P)
  • Peradeniya botanical garden (USD 10 P.P)
  • Expenses of personal nature such as tipping, porters, laundry, telephones, etc

COVID-19 Special information

  • All customer touchpoints are frequently cleaned
  • Social distancing is maintained in vehicles
  • To reduce crowds, all tours are private
  • Masks are required, please bring your own
  • You must fill out a travel information form
  • Temperature checks are mandatory
  • You must book this activity online, as the ticket office is closed

Trip map

 

Itineraries

DAY 1

Time : 7:00 am

COLOMBO / KANDY

Meet and greet by Seerendipity tours representative and leave for Kandy, En-route visit,

Kandy

A ruled in Kandy up to 1815 although the rest of the island was under the British regime. Finally, it was ceded to them by the Chieftains of Kandy who were disappointed over the king’s cruel deeds. Today Kandy is one of the most important cities owing to the presence of the Temple of the Sacred Tooth of the Buddha.

Visit Temple of Tooth Relic in Kandy enjoy a typical Sri Lankan Cultural Show of Drumming Dancing music and fire walking.

PINNAWALA ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE

Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, the foster – home of elephants of different age and size feeding, bathing, playing together and even mating. These have been found injured or left abandoned in the wilderness. There are even little baby calves born in captivity.

TEMPLE OF THE TOOTH RELIC

Sri Dalada Maligawa (Sinhala) or The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is a Buddhist temple in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is located in the royal palace complex which houses the Relic of the tooth of Buddha. Since ancient times, the relic has played an important role in local politics because it is believed that whoever holds the relic holds the governance of the country. Kandy was the last capital of the Sinhalese kings and is a world heritage site partly due to the temple.

ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDEN

The Botanical Garden of Peradeniya was a pleasure garden of a Kandyan King of the 16th Century and later made into a Botanical Garden during the British regime. This gardens; one of the best in Asia is a place of beauty and site for bird watchers.

CITY AND SHOPPING TOUR

Kandy and Nuwara Eliya tour will also include places of Tourist interest such as,

Kataragama devala, Hindu temple, Gem Museum, Kandyan cultural show.

Shopping at

Batik Factory, Handicraft centre, Silk Garden

Spend Overnight in Kandy

Accommodation

Oakray regency hotel

Meals

Dinner included at hotel

DAY 2

Time : 7:00 am

KANDY / NUWARA ELIYA

After a leisurely breakfast leave for Nuwara Eliya via scenic hill country. En-route visit Hanuman temple, Tea factory, Sita temple and Haggala botanical garden.

SRI BHAKTHI HANUMAK TEMPLE

According to the ancient epoch Ramboda is an area, where the forces of Rama's gather to fight against King Ravana. This temple was built by the Chinmaya mission of Sri Lanka and dedicated to Hanuman. This temple houses for 16 feel height statue of Hanuman.

SITA AMMAN KOVIL

Nuwara Eliya also was known as little England for its cool climes, British architecture and natural beauty is also promoted as a sacred city because of its link to the “Rama Seetha” love story. Seetha Amman kovil is dedicated to Seetha, wife of Rama who is believed to be one of the avatars of Lord Vishnu. There are many temples dedicated to Rama and Hanuman, especially in North India, but the Seetha Amman Kovil in Sri Lanka is unique in that it is the only one in the world dedicated to Seetha alone. According to legend King Ravana who ruled the country from Badulla kidnapped Queen Seetha. Queen Seetha was married to King Rama of India. Finally, king Ravana went to India and brought queen seethe to Badulla.

NUWARA ELIYA

As the largest city in the mountains, Nuwara Eliya plays an important role in Sri Lanka’s tourism industry. Undoubtedly Nuwara Eliya is the most popular health resort in the island and features a blend of colonial charm, modern development and slum areas, inherited from the colonial plantation culture. Nuwara Eliya was an important seat of British colonial administration. It was first developed as a holiday destination in Sri Lanka under the British administration, due to the cool, healing climate.

HAGGALA BOTANICAL GARDEN / ASHOK VATIKA

Hakgala Botanical Garden is situated on the Nuwara Eliya-Badulla main road, 16 km from Nuwara Eliya. The garden has a cool temperate climate because of altitude is 5,400 feet above the sea level. The mean annual temperature ranges between 16°C to 30°C during the course of a year. From December to February it has a cold climate, while the warm climate persists from April to August.

In the folklore, it says Sri Lankan demon King Ravana after abducting Sita, kept her hidden in this area and area was offered to Sita as a pleasure garden, the place finds mention in the Ramayana as Ashok Vatika. The area was named as "Sita Eliya" and "Sita Amman Temple" was built on the site.

TEA FACTORY

Visit a Tea Plantation and a Tea Factory en-route. Sri Lanka is famous for its “Ceylon Tea” has added cheers to many the world over for more than a century.

Spend Overnight in Nuwara Eliya

Accommodation

Oakray summer hill breeze

Meals

Breakfast Dinner included at hotel

DAY 3

Time : 8:00 am

NUWARA ELIYA / COLOMBO

After a leisurely breakfast leave for Colombo via Kitulgala.

KITULGALA

Kitulgala is a small town in the west of Sri Lanka. It is in the wet zone rainforest, which gets two monsoons each year, and is one of the wettest places in the country. Nevertheless, it comes alive in the first three months of the year, especially in February, the driest month. The Academy Award-winning The Bridge on the River Kwai was filmed on the Kelani River near Kitulgala, although nothing remains now except the concrete foundations for the bridge (and, supposedly, the submerged train cars that plunged into the river in the climactic scene). Kitulgala is also a base for white-water rafting, which starts a few kilometres upstream.

Colombo

Colombo city had been a well-known city in the region among the Arabian, Chinese, Indian, Persian, and Roman traders as early as the pre-Christian era. Sri Lanka is located in the East-West sea route and visited by traders in order to exchange their goods with the local traders.

Even though Colombo was well-known city among the ancient traders 2,000 years ago, the capital city of the country had been Anuradhapura. There was an Arabian settlement in the city of Colombo at the mouth of Kelani River. Arab traders were exporting the goods from the port of Colombo. Goods such as Cinnamon, ivory, gems, elephants were exported by the king of Kotte with the help of Arabs. With the beginning of British colonial period, Colombo city received the prominent place as the capital of Ceylon. Colombo was the capital of the island from 1815 to 1978 until the administrative capital was moved to Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte.

GALLE FACE

This had been a well-known Racecourse during the British colonial period in the country. This race course which located bordering the Indian Ocean had to be abandoned later on due to the Sea crabs, which are making holes in the track. Afterwards, it was developed as a promenade for the city dwellers and named as Galle face green. Today Galle face green contains an open theatre, spacious open space for a picnic, sports and walking.

BUDDHIST TEMPLE KELANIYA

It is considered to be one of the most sacred places in the country. Temple is one of the three places where Buddha visited in the 6th century B.C. well known Kelaniya dagoba is located on the border of the temple. Kalyani River, which flows next to the temple, adds more value to the scenic beauty of the temple. This temple holds a reputation for its attractive wall, which considered being the best painting of the Modern Era.

VIHARAMAHADEVI PARK

Viharamahadevi is located in the Colombo 7 or Cinnamon gardens. It is the largest and most popular park in the city. It is believed that there had been a twenty square kilometre cinnamon plantation in the area. Today most of the palaces of wealthy people can be seen in the area and Colombo 7 is the most picturesque part of the city.

WOLFENDAAL CHURCH

The Wolvendaal church is located In Fort and walking distance from the centre of the city. It has a large collection of tombstones of important Dutch personalities. The church is built in the Doric style of the period. In the form of Greek cross, with five feet thick walls and the gables raised over. The transepts are roofed with brick barrel arches and a centre dome.

AUKANA BUDDHA STATUE / INDEPENDENCE HALL / PETTAH AND BMICH

Facing the Bandaranayke Memorial International Conference Hall stands a beautifully executed statue of the Buddha in the standing posture. The statue is 36 feet tall and is the largest Buddha statue in the city of Colombo. It is a replica of the Avukana Statue on the banks of the Kalawewa Anuradhapura.

CITY & SHOPPING

The City Tour will also include places of Tourist interest such as,

Old parliament, Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, Buddhist Hindu Temple and Town Hall, Devatagaha mosque, Pettah area, Galle face green, Cinnamon garden, Colombo museum, Beira lake.

Shopping at

Odel, House of fashion, Handicraft centre, Gem Museum

No Accommodation

Meals

Breakfast included at hotel

  1. Jiana kiriman:

    Very good tour

  2. Fermeia:

    The trip just 3 days and short but it is not short of the natural beauty. The we had to stop in many times as we travel to nuwara eliya to take a look into the beautiful scenery on the way. Kandy, Nuwara , kitulagla all are very beautiful cities with lot of trees and plants.

  3. Naguen shinona:

    Well balanced Sri Lanak short trip with history, culture, and natural beauty. It includes many interesting places such as temples, cultural shows, beautiful lakes, waterfalls and interesting activates such as trekking through tea garden and Whitewater rafting. Our guide janaka was a very friendly and helpful we wnjoyed the trip a lot thanks to him.

  4. Olivier obochowski:

    Excellent trip to so srilankas beauty. beautiful mountains, tea gardens and waterfalls.

  5. Julia kilone:

    Sri Lanka hill country is a perfect trip to enjoy the natural beauty of Sri Lanka. It gives you opportunity to enjoy the natural beauty of Sri Lanka hills country, waterfalls, mountains, tea plantations and many more.

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