Colombo Trip Overview
This tour covers five top ranking sightseeing activities in Sri Lanka that includes Sigiriya Rock Fortress, Minneriya National Park, Dambulla Cave temple and Kandy Temple. In addition to these, you will also visit a Spice garden, Gem Lapidary and wood carving center.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 days
Starts: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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This tour covers five top ranking sightseeing activities in Sri Lanka that includes Sigiriya Rock Fortress, Minneriya National Park, Dambulla Cave temple and Kandy Temple. In addition to these, you will also visit a Spice garden, Gem Lapidary and wood carving center.
Itinerary
Day 1: Colombo – Sigiriya
Stop At: Sigiriya The Ancient Rock Fortress, Sigiriya 21120 Sri Lanka
6:00: You will be picked up from your hotel in Colombo, Negombo or Mount Lavinia and driven to Sigiriya (approx. 4 hours drive). On arrival, you will climb the rock fortress.
10:00- 12:00: Visit Sigiriya Rock fortress that is famous for its toadstool of golden-hued granite, protruding into the searing blue sky from a hot, flat wilderness of scrubland, which is transformed in the rainy season to a water garden. In the 5th century King Kashyapa domesticated the Lions Rock, by building a palace atop its summit. Sigiriya commemorates some of the turbulence of Sri Lanka’s history.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Minneriya National Park, Maradankadawala-Habarana-Thirukkondaiadimadu Highway, 50150 Sri Lanka
Post lunch, you will be able to check in to your hotel and get ready for the evening game drive at Minneriya National Park.
14:30: You will be driven to Habarana where you will start your game drive.
15:00- 1800: Explore Minneriya National Park by jeep. The extent of the Minneriya National Park is about 8,889 hectares. Dry zone plant and animal species are common and elephants are in plenty.
Duration: 3 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch: 12:30 – 13:30: After the sightseeing at Sigiriya, you will be taken to New Sigiri Restaurant for buffet lunch.
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Spend Overnight at a Three Star Hotel on Half board basis.
Day 2: Sigiriya – Colombo
Stop At: Dambulla Cave Temple, Jaffna Hwy, Habarana 50150 Sri Lanka
7:30: After breakfast, you will be driven to visit Dambulla Cave temples ( 30 minutes drive).
8:00 – 9:45 Visit Dambulla Cave temple. This was built by King Walagambahu in the 1st century B.C. and it is a World Heritage Site. It is the most impressive of Sri Lanka’s cave temples. The complex of five caves with over 2000 sq. meters of painted walls and ceilings, is the largest area of paintings found in the world.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Royal Spice Garden, 100, Kawudupelella, Sri Lanka
10:00: Leave Dambulla and proceed to Matale where you will be able to visit a Spice Garden.
11:00 -12:00: Free guided tour in the spice garden. For centuries, spices have been one of Sri Lanka’s most celebrated exports and are used for medicines and cosmetics as well as to flavour foods. We will sample scents and flavours such as cinnamon, ginger, pepper, vanilla and cardamom.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Oak Ray Handcrafted Wood Carvings, 9 Deveni Rajasinghe Mawatha. Gatembe, Kandy 20000 Sri Lanka
14:30- 15:30: Visit wood carving center and Gem Lapidary.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, Sri Dalada Veediya, Kandy 20000 Sri Lanka
16:00 – 17:30: Visit Kandy Temple. Located in Kandy, long a center of the Buddhist faith, the stunning 17th-century Temple of the Tooth (Sri Dalada Maligawa) is believed to house the left upper canine tooth of the Lord Buddha himself. This precious relic attracts white-clad pilgrims, bearing lotus blossoms and frangipani, every day.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Colombo Fort, Galle Buck, Colombo Sri Lanka
18:00: Leave Kandy and proceed to Colombo (approx. 3 hours & 30 minutes drive).
21:30: You will be dropped at your hotel.
Duration: 15 minutes
Meals included:
• Lunch: 13:30: Arrive at Oak-ray Restaurant for lunch.
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
