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| Programme : | Close Encounter With Vedda | |||
| Duration : | 10 Days/ 9 Nights. | |||
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Airport / ColomboMeet on arrival and transfer from Airport to Colombo.Rest of the day is at leisure. Dinner and overnight stay at Galle Face Hotel. |
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ColomboBreakfast at Galle Face Hotel. Do a city tour of Colombo which, like many capital cities in developing countries, is fast changing its face.Visit Colombo Museum. Your special attention will be on Natural History section and the anthropology section where you can gather lot of information on the Veddah (the aboriginal tribe of Sri Lanka). Dinner and overnight stay at Galle Face Hotel. |
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Colombo / Kitulgala / Nuwara EliyaBreakfast at Galle Face Hotel. Transfer from Colombo to Kitulgala. One has to walk through jungle for some distance to reach Belilena Cave. This is a very famous cave where the 12,000 year old skeletal remains of Balangoda Man were found.Transfer from Kitulgala to Nuwara Eliya. Visit Nuwara Eliya. Nuwara Eliya, because of its invigorating mountain climate and scenery, is Sri Lanka s most popular hill resort. Dinner and overnight stay at Hill Club. |
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Nuwara Eliya / Horton Plains / Nuwara EliyaBreakfast at Hill Club. Transfer from Nuwara Eliya to Horton Plains.Visit Horton Plains, which is located on a high windswept saddle at about 2134 meters above the sea level. Visit World s End, considered to be the finest view in all of Sri Lanka. The awesome escarpment drops vertically for about 4,000 feet, hence its name. You can also see the beautiful Baker’s Falls (The walk is about 14 km). Transfer from Horton Plains to Nuwara Eliya. Dinner and overnight stay at Hill Club. |
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Nuwara Eliya / DambanaBreakfast at Hill Club. Transfer from Nuwara Eliya to Dambana.DambanaDambana is one of the very few places you can see the "Veddah", the aboriginal people of Sri Lanka. To observe their way of life and participate in their traditional and cultural activities, it is best to spend some pre-arranged time with them on a pre-arranged programme. Camping near the Veddah Village and getting involved with them in these activities would surely be a very important and memorable event in anyone's life.Visit to the Veddah village and a meeting with the Chief - Wanniyaleththo is arranged followed by the famous "Kiri Koraha" dance, which they perform to invoke blessings from the gods. Back at camp, a very delectable barbecue dinner will await the guests. Dinner and overnight stay at Camp at Dambana. |
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DambanaAfter breakfast, a second visit to the Village. Although we may not be able to go on an actual hunting trip with them, they will not hesitate to depict to us the pros and cons of hunting and enact how they set about it.Watching them making their traditional bow and arrow- made out of natural material- too would be another interesting activity. In addition to hunting, another important way of catching prey is by setting traps. Out of many such traps, "Habaka" is a simple form used to catch small animals, which they will demonstrate in a very practical way. Dinner and overnight stay at Dambana Camp. |
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Dambana / KandyBreakfast at Dambana Camp. Transfer from Dambana to Kandy. Dinner and overnight stay at Earl's Regency Hotel |
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KandyBreakfast at Earl's Regency Hotel.Kandy was the last capital of the Sri Lankan kings and is a World Heritage Site. Visit the Kandy Museum. Also visit the Temple of the Tooth Relic in Kandy. Thereafter witness a cultural show. Dinner and overnight stay at Earl's Regency Hotel. |
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Kandy / Pinnawala / ColomboBreakfast at Earl's Regency Hotel. Transfer from Kandy to the The Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. Transfer from Pinnawala to Colombo.Dinner and overnight stay at Galle Face Hotel |
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Colombo / AirportBreakfast at Galle Face Hotel. Transfer from Colombo to Airport |
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