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Ultimate Eco Adventure Experience
Duration: 14 days/13 nights

Tour Code: ECOSLK-05


Day 1: Waikkala
On arrival, our representative will meet you at the airport and then you will be transferred to Ranweli Holiday Village in Waikakala - the hotel which offers you a cozy ambiance with its magnificent landscapes of beach and lagoon. The rest of the day, you will be offered the optional tours of bird watching or canoeing. The two optional tours provide you an opportunity to explore the abundance of flora and fauna of Waikkala with its 50-60 varieties of birds and other creatures such as brackish water fish, shrimps, crabs, molasses, and so on. The interesting highlight here is the rare and only palm, Nypa Fruticans "Gin Pol" which grows in water. Dinner and overnight stay at Ranweli Holiday Village.

Day 2: Singharaja
After breakfast, take an early morning departure for Singharaja Rain Forest, well-known for its highest number of indigenous flora and fauna as well as its richness in biodiversity. The Reserves was declared as the World Heritage Site in 1989. Sprawling over the expanse of 11,250 ha., Singharaja is the only patch of virgin rain forest left in Sri Lanka. You will stay overnight in an Eco Lodge which is built and operated by a person in the forest or in a dormitory of forest department.

Day 3: Udawalawe
After enjoy bird watching in the early morning, you will leave for Udawalawe National Park. This 30,281 hectares dry zone game park was declared as a protected national park in 1972. It has as annual rainfall of 1,524 millimeters and an average temperature of 29.4C. This park is world renowned for its elephants. You will see the herds of them bathing and playing in the water, making a pleasant sight.

After lunch, you will set off on safari tour in the park. The Udawalawe National Park is an ideal place for bird watching as it endows a wide variety of birds. The parkland is an excellent habitat of many endemic species such as the Red-faced Malkoha, Serpent Eagles, Hawk Eagles, White-Bellied Sea Eagles, Black Eagles, Black Capped Bulbuls, Racket-tailed Drongos, Malabar Pied Horn Bills, White-necked Storks, Open Bills, Ibis, Shama (the forest Nightingale), Strol-Billed Kingfishers, and peacocks. The migrant birds can also be found here such as the forest wagtails, Indian Pitta, Whiskered Terns, Osprey sand Pipers and Terns. Dinner and overnight stay in a campsite in the park.

Day 4: Tree Top Farm
After breakfast, take a journey to Tree Top Farm. Arriving there, you will set off on a trek leading to a little lake where you can observe the elephants frequently come. Its tranquil atmosphere and its wonderful natural surrounding invite you to relax and enjoy all sights and sound of the nature while watching the variety of birds. The trip takes 1 ½-2 hours. Stay at the Tree Top Farm (lodge).

Day 5: Tree Top Farm
In the morning after breakfast, start a trek at about 10 a.m. to the Weliara Lake, an ancient irrigation tank. The trek will take you pass through a variety of tall forest, scrub jungle and abandoned chena fields. Along the trail, you have a chance to admire the richness of birdlife; and if the luck is yours, you may spot wildlife like elephants. Then relax and enjoy swimming in the Weliara Wewa, the large tank, built in the 2nd century B.C by King Saddha Tissa. At 2.30 p.m., begin trekking back to the Farm. En route, stop over at a watering hole frequently used by wild animals. You will reach the farm by 4.00 p.m. for tea and stay overnight at the Tree Top Farm (lodge).

Day 6: Horton Plains-Belihuloya
After breakfast, proceed to Horton Plains, one of the country's famous nature reserves. The reserves cover the renowned World's End, a sheer drop of 3,700 feet with its breathtaking view. Of interest in the area include Bakers Falls and Chiminini pool. Set on a remote, high plateau at the elevation of 2000 meters, the Horton Plains Nature Reserves sprawls on the expanse of approximately 10,000 hectares which is fringed by grassland and interspersed with dense montane forests. The reserve is an ideal destination among bird watchers as it is a habitat of the Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush. Many other endemic birds can be found here such as Yellow-eared Bulbul, the fantailed warbler, the Ashy headed babbler and the Sri Lanka Blue Magpie. There are also three varieties of lizards inhabiting here, including the horned lizard.

After lunch, you will set off on a trek down to Belihuloya. Located about 16 kilometers from Colombo in the historical "Sabaragamuwa" province, Belihuloya is a very picturesque and romantic hamlet. As set in a climatically transitional area linking the dry and the wet zone with different topography of the hill country and the low country, Belihuloya endows one of the highest biodiversity in the country. Dinner and overnight stay in a campsite.

Day 7: Belihuloya
After breakfast, you will two options for your activities during the whole day, either cycling in the region or canoeing in Belihuloya. Dinner and over night stay in a camp site.

Day 8: Kithulkala
After breakfast in the morning, proceed to Kithulkala for adventure expedition of white water rafting. This thrilling adventure on the white water section of Kelani River is suitable for amateurs and professional alike. During the run, you will feel the thrilling challenge of shooting rapids and euphoria. The clear water in the heart of the peak wildness reserve reserves and tumbles through a rocky gorge over Kithulgala. Dinner and overnight stay in a rest house.

Day 9: Kandy
After breakfast, we continue driving to Kandy, Sri Lanka's hill capital stronghold of the Sinhala kings, repository of culture, religious center is Sri Lanka's most beautiful town - where the famous Dalada Maligawa another world heritage site - is, is a very important place to visit. The Dalada Maligawa also called the Temple of the Tooth and known to house the Tooth Relic of the Lord Buddha. In the evening, you are welcomed to witness Kandy Culture and the Kandyan Home garden system, which is the emphasis of the day. Dinner and overnight stay at Tree of Life in Kandy.

Day 10: Wasgamuwa
Get up and have breakfast in the early morning, up next, we keep on to Wasgamuwa - the "Strict Natural park Reserve" with a coverage of 36,948 hectares, bounded by the Mahaweli River on the east and Amban on the west and the north. Wasgamuwa National Park, centrally located province, provides diverse microhabitats for fauna and flora of the area; 23 species of mammals, 143 of the 428 species of birds found in Sri Lanka, of these, 8 species are endemic to Sri Lanka, 17 species of reptiles and 5 of their endemic. The park is also a heaven for butterflies, 50 species are found throughout the park and 9 of these are endemic. This park is parenthetically renowned for elephants and bears.

In the afternoon, you, all natures lovers will leave the paradise on your behind and head toward the campsite. Dinner and overnight stay.

Day 11: Polonnaruwa
After breakfast, we break your adventurous journey and lead you to Sri Lanka's second capital "Polonnaruwa", built in the 11th and 12th centuries AD, and which is a world heritage site. You can see the ruins of the Royal Palace, the Gal Viharaya - where 4 splendid statues of the Buddha in "Upright", "Sedentary" and "Recumbent" postures carved out of rock, the Audience Hall, the Lotus Bath, king Parakramabahu's statue, and the Parakrama Samudraya Lake built by King Parakramabahu the great. There are also monuments of famous places of worship such as the Shiva Temple, The Watadage, the Galpotha, the Kiri Vehera and the remains of a former Temple of the Tooth Relic. Dinner and stay overnight at Sudu Araliya Hotel or similar.

Day 12: Negambo
After breakfast, we down the road to Negambo's beach, the southern town with its bustling and historically interesting, the lagoon islands to its south and the many canals make for good exploring. On arriving, the rest of the day you may be spent at leisure. Dinner and stay overnight at Brown Beach.

Day 13: Negambo
After breakfast, enjoy a leisurely day at your own. Dinner and stay overnight at Brown Beach Hotel.

Optional: diving activity
Sri Lanka is known to the world as the pearl of the Indian Ocean an offer a unique tropical escape into the world if paradise spreads with lagoons and miles of sunny beaches or wonders into the green fauna or dive in the deep blue ocean exploring the brooding shipwrecks, or snorkel around admiring gorgeous coral reefs and exotic tropical fish which will have you taken very deep breaths.

All diving activities will be arranged by well-trained and experienced UDI and PADI instructors with extreme consciousness of your safety.

Day 14: Negombo - Airport
After breakfast, we depart for airport. Take off.

 

 

 

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