6 Day Elephants, Temples, Highlands, and Wildlife Tour in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Wildlife Tour
On this superb six-day cultural tour, get to see baby elephants, experience ancient cities and the tea plantation, and take a jeep safari through a national park. This must tick many items off your bucket list!
Key information
- Group safari
- Starting and ending point: Negombo / Colombo
- English speaking guide
- All park fees are included
Highlights
- 1 game drive at Yala National Park
- Chance to see elephants, leopards, deers, buffaloes, and birds
- Ride in an open-sided 4X4 vehicle
- Visit Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage and Peradeniya Botanical Gardens
- Excursions to attractions
- Traditional Kandy cultural dancing show
- 5 nights accommodation
- Park fees included
Styles
Accommodation
During the wildlife tour, you will stay in various hotels.
- Night 1: Tropical Life Resort & SPA
- Night 2: Thilanka Hotel - Kandy
- Night 3: Mirage Kings Cottage
- Night 4: Ella Gap Panorama
- Night 5: Oak Ray Wild Yala
Tropical Life Resort & SPA
Villa Rangiri, exquisitely and elegantly furnished with eight rooms, is ideal for a truly comfortable and memorable holiday. Each room comes with modern luxuries such as air conditioning, a satellite TV, a mini bar, and more for your absolute comfort by the resort. Also, its occupants can have a picturesque view of Dambulla Cave Temple, one of the major attractions in Dambulla and also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Bedrooms are designed in such a way that they represent traditional Sri Lankan culture and its art and craft work.
Facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Swimming pool
- Poolside restaurant or bar
- Car park and driver’s accommodation
- Outdoor dining and leisure area
- Barbecue facilities on request
- Wi-Fi
- Indoor board games
- Free bicycles
- Excursions to places of interest
Thilanka Hotel - Kandy
Thilanka Hotel, Kandy began as a simple five-bedroom guesthouse in 1978. Guests were served home-cooked meals and treated as family, in the ancient Kandyan tradition of hospitality. Over the years it grew, into a small hotel by 1983 and gradually into the current 92-room facility.
Mirage Kings Cottage
A rustic over a 100-year-old Colonial building that was once owned by F. R. Senanayake the brother of Hon. D. S. Senanayake, who was the first Prime Minister of Independent Ceylon. Situated on a two-acre plot of land, overlooking the placid waters of Lake Gregory and surrounded by the lush greenery of the Galway forest, with gardens dotted with Cypress trees and decorated by exotic flowering flora.
Located in the high country of Nuwara Eliya, surrounded by gushing streams and cascading waterfalls, where the vegetation changes from rubber plantations and fragrant spice gardens to emerald green hills, carpeted with the world-famous “Ceylon Tea”.
Oak Ray Wild Yala
A premier among Yala hotels, Oak Ray Wild Yala is situated at Tissamaharama, in close proximity to the Yala wildlife sanctuary. The hotel consists of 44 superior deluxe rooms with modern amenities. The elegant restaurant and bar offer breathtaking views of the surrounding landscape garden. The pool secluded amongst the landscape garden is a vantage point to soak in spectacular views of the sunset.
Program
Itinerary
Day 1: Pinnawala and Sigiriya
Your tour starts early morning at 7:00 a.m. Drive to Pinnawala. Visit Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage. The milk feeding of the babies is between 9:15 a.m. to 9.45 a.m. Afterward, you can watch the elephant bathing at the local river between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Afterward, drive to Sigiriya. On the way, stop for lunch. In the afternoon, visit the Sigiriya Fortress. Dinner and overnight stay in a hotel in Sigiriya.
Day 2: Dambulla and Kandy
After breakfast, proceed to Kandy on the way, visiting Dambula Cave Temple. Afterward, visit a spice garden in Matale. Lunch and drive to Kandy, visit the Temple of the Tooth, and enjoy a traditional cultural dancing show in the evening. The Kandy cultural dance show is a stimulating dance and cultural heritage show that is a must-see for any visitor who visits the historic city of Kandy. It started in 1982.
The first cultural dance show of its kind to be established in Sri Lanka. Now it has since become a tourist attraction for many people visiting the country and who are keen to witness its rich cultural heritage. The show has been performing continuously for the last 35 years. Dinner and overnight in a hotel in Kandy.
Day 3: Nuwara Eliya
After breakfast, visit Peradeniya Botanical Gardens, do some shopping, and then leave for Nuwara Eliya. En-route visit the famous Ramboda waterfall. A Sri Lankan tea plantation and a working tea factory. Experience a self-tea plucking session. Have dinner and stay overnight in a hotel in Nuwara Eliya.
Day 4: Ella
After breakfast, you will have the option to proceed to Ella by train. It is a picturesque ride through tea plantations and offers one of the best views of the Sri Lanka highland countryside. Your driver will drop you at the Nuwara Eliya train station and pick you up from the train station in Ella. After check-in at your hotel in Ella, you can climb Little Adam's Peak. See the Nine Arches Bridge. Have dinner and stay overnight in a hotel in Ella.
Day 5: Tissamaharama and Yala Safari
After breakfast, leave for Yala. On the way, you stop and visit Ravana waterfall. Take two hours of drive from Ella to Tissamaharama. Have lunch and start the Yala jeep safari tour at 2:00 p.m. for a four-hour safari. After the safari, dinner and overnight in a hotel in Tissamaharama.
Day 6: Yala Safari - Colombo or Negombo
After breakfast proceed back to Negombo, Colombo, or Airport via the beautiful southern coastal road. Visit Galle Fort. Stop on the beach for lunch.
About the safari
Pick-up points will be in Negombo or Colombo.
Location
The wildlife tour will take place in Sri Lanka.
Sigiriya Fortress
Sigiriya is an ancient rock fortress, which is located in the northern Matale District. Near the famous town of Dambulla in the Central Province, Sri Lanka. From the summit, you can see distances of up to 12 kilometers. The famous frescoes of the “heavenly maidens” are painted on the western face of the rock. The rock overlooks the fountains of the western water garden which normally come alive during the rainy season.
Dambulla Cave Temples
Dambulla Cave Temples are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Home to the Cave temple dedicated to Lord Buddha with its magnificent Buddha images and vivid rock paintings of vivid colors. First painted around the second century BC and continued up to the 18th century.
Peradeniya Botanical Gardens
The botanical garden in Peradeniya is the most beautiful in the whole of Asia. You can explore over 4.000 different types of plants in a beautifully maintained garden of 60 hectares.
Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya is one of the coolest places in Sri Lanka. The temperature drops at night. Around Nuwara Eliya, you will see evidence of British influence. Houses like country cottages or Queen Ann-style mansions.
Little Adam's Peak
The peak is 1141 meters high and is an easier climb than its big brother.
Nine Arches Bridge
This bridge is 300 feet in length, 25 feet in width, and 100 feet in height. It is one of the best examples of colonial-era railway construction in the country.
Yala West National Safari Park
Yala West National Safari Park is located to the southeast of the island and is well recognized as one of the best parks in the world to observe and photograph leopards. Covering an area of over 100,000 hectares and its main physical features are sand dunes, lagoons, dry river beds, rocky outcrops, and forest. There is also a substantial elephant population as well as spotted deer, sambar, wild buffalo, sloth bear, jackal, mongoose, pangolin, and crocodiles. The bird life comprises over 120 species and ranges from lesser flamingos to paradise flycatchers, crested hawk eagles, and black bitterns.
Galle Fort
Galle Fort was built by the Portuguese in 1588. Afterward, it was extensively fortified by the Dutch in the 17th century. The Fort has a real Mediterranean feel about the place and has many boutique shops, trendy cafes, and coffee shops.
Food
You will be served daily breakfast and dinner included in the price. Other meals and drinks are at your own expense.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Dinner
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
What's included
- 1 game drive
- Visits various attractions
- Kandy cultural dance show
- 5 nights accommodation
- Daily breakfast and dinner
- All the entrances
- Private jeep
What's not included
- Airfare
- Airport transfers
- Lunches
- Beverages
- Personal other expenses
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Bandaranaike International Airport
111 km
Transfer not provided
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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