Friday, 13 January 2017

The Tour!

This is what the travel brochure says about the tour - 

Discover old Ceylon with its sacred caves, ancient temples, palaces, lost cities and a unique cuisine blended with excellent game viewing and finishing with a relaxing few days on a tropical beach.
  • Stay in charming hand-picked three and four-star hotels
  • Experience superb scenery; shimmering paddy fields, rubber and aromatic spice plantations, verdant tea estates, endless swaying coconut groves and exotic wildlife
  • Visit Kandy, Sri Lanka’s pre-colonial capital and see the Temple of the Tooth – one of Buddhism’s holiest shrines
  • See the stunning Royal Botanical Gardens, created over 150 years ago
  • Guided tour of the 5th century Royal Palace and Citadel at Sigiriya Rock, one of the Indian sub-continents finest historical sites
  • Visit to the Buddhist Monastery of Dambulla and its incredible Cave Temples
  • Stay in the colonial hill-station of Nuwara Eliya, centre of the ‘Ceylon’ tea tradeVisit the Elephant Transit Home, where elephant orphans are looked after, before being re-introduced to the wild
  • Take a safari in Yala National Park, famed for its leopards and elephant herds
  • Spend three nights relaxing on one of Sri Lanka’s idyllic tropical beaches
  • Escorted by our experienced tour manager
  • Return direct scheduled flights and transfers included

First of all we fly out to Dubai and then change for a flight to Colombo.  In Colombo we're staying at the Jetwing Lagoon Hotel.




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