Family holidays are all about spending time with your loved ones whilst also having the opportunity to enjoy precious time with yourselves. Whether you seek a relaxing beach holiday, fun-filled adventure, a slice of an exotic paradise, or somewhere closer to home, Ceylon Discovery Tours offers a fabulous holiday that caters to all of your family’s needs.
Sri Lanka’s endless carpet of golden sand lapped by crystal-clear aquamarine waters offers blissful relaxation for the whole family. However, with its rich heritage, a plethora of cultural treasures, stunning scenery, and incredible wildlife, this exotic island offers families the chance to venture beyond the beach and embark on unforgettable adventures.
Duration: 8 Days – 7 Nights Tour 975US$ per person
Arrival at Bandaranaike International Ari Port and transfer to Hotel in Negambo.
Dinner & Overnight stay at a Hotel in Negambo
After breakfast leave for Dambulla and en route visit the Elephant Orphanage at Pinnewele. Pinnewele Elephant Orphanage where abandoned and disabled elephants get a lot of love, care, and protection can enjoy the bathing, feeding & playing of dignified elderly matriarchs to the cutest of babies.
Dinner & Overnight stay at Hotel in Dambulla
After breakfast go on an elephant back safari at Habarana; set amidst the natural wilderness and serene lakes Habarane, is the ideal place for this adventurous fun experience. The jungle trek on the elephant’s back accompanied by the mahout – the elephant handler – you set off for a ride of a lifetime along jungle paths and across shallow rivers, which would give great fun for your whole family.
Afternoon, visit Minneriye/Kaudulle/Eco Park National Park. This will include a Safari tour by jeep with a jungle tracker. The Park is an incredible place to observe the elephants that come to bathe & graze on the grasses as well as the huge flocks of Birds that come to fish in the shallow waters.
Dinner & Overnight stay at the same Hotel in Dambulla
After breakfast leave for Kandy. En route visit Cave Temple at Dambulla where a large number of Buddha statues are housed in 5 caves, including a 14-meter-long, colossal figure of the recumbent Buddha carved out of the rock, the caves’ rock ceiling covered in one large sweep of colorful frescoes. It is the best place to see the classical Buddhist paintings & murals of the island. Evening reaching Kandy and seeing the Cultural Show. Kandy, the capital of the hill country, was the last seat of Sinhalese kings who ceded power to the British in1815 after many battles with the western colonial forces, still remains much of its old world charm and traditions of the Sri Lankan lifestyle, At the Cultural Show, can enjoy the Dancers & Drums of Traditional Artist with their magical Firewalking.
Dinner & Overnight stay at Hotel in Kandy.
After Breakfast leave for Nuwara Eliya. In the morning Sightseeing in Kandy including Upper Lake Drive Observe the glorious architecture of that period and experience the tranquility of the atmosphere. And visit Art and Craft Centers, and Gem Factory to see the rich skills of Kandian Traditional Craftsmen & Artists. Next visit a Tea Factory with rolling tea gardens via crashing waterfalls and reach Nuwere Eliye in the evening: Nuwara Eliya also known as Little
England is where the homesick British (The Tea Planters) built themselves a home away from home.
Dinner & Overnight stay at Hotel in Nuwara Eliya
After Breakfast leaves for Bentota via Kithulgala. En route further, enjoy lush tea plantations, majestic peaks, and rushing waterfalls, and stop to view fascinating two waterfalls St.clairs fall and Devon Fall.
Dinner & Overnight stay at Hotel in Bentota
After breakfast, Children will be kept entertained with the numerous water sports (an optional Activity) on offer on the calm Bentota River, alongside the sea including banana-boating, water-skiing, jet-skiing, windsurfing, and wave boarding. Next visit sea turtles at the Kosgoda Turtle Conservation Project which is a pioneering effort in conserving the endangered Marine Turtle species that come to nest along the west coast of the island. The process of marine turtles nesting, hatchlings being born, and swimming back to sea is a phenomenal ritual that is fascinating to observe.
And in the afternoon leaves for Colombo and visits the main shopping places around the city.
Dinner & Overnight stay at a Hotel in Colombo
Leave for Airport for Departure (According to your flight times)
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