Conscious Travel
10/9
Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, Wellawaya, Udawalawe, Negambo, Colombo.
Jetwing Kandy Gallery, Stafford Bungalow, Jetwing Kaduruketha, Jetwing Kaduruketha, Villa Hundira,
- Warm Welcome
- Brassworks at local village house
- Kotmale experience the toddy tapping and jaggery manufacturing process.
- Spend the day at leisure taking a stroll along the tranquil little town and experience its cold weather and beautiful environment.
- Tea factory visit
- Organic farming experience
- Organic garden/bathala roti making process
- Farmers talk-story telling
- Ellawala bicycle ride
- Visit the Elephant Transit Home
- Dutch Fort Tour
Day 01
On arrival at the Bandaranayake International Airport, you will be warmly greeted and transferred to the hotel in Kandy.
At arrival you will be warmly greeted by our chauffer guide who will accompany you throughout the tour. To ensure your safety, all our guides are well trained on the precautions & measurements that needs to be adhered to the health regulations by the Authorities. They are also well equipped with all the necessary safety standards. The vehicle conditions have been pre-examined along with its cleanliness and hygiene. At arrival your guide will hand over a hygiene pack which contains a face mask, sanitizer, tissues and some travel essentials for your ease and safety. We ensure your holiday will bring lots of good memories as well as experiences with lots of safety with us.
Jetwing Kandy Gallery
Deluxe Room
Bed & Breakfast
Day 02
After a leisurely breakfast leave to Pilimathalawa to experience brass works at local village house.
Afternoon visit the three temples loop Possibly Gampola’s most legendary attraction, the Embekke, Lankatilaka and Galadeniya are a short distance from each other and sometimes referred to as the ‘three-temple loop’. The temples serve as a living testimony to Sri Lanka’s Buddhist heritage, history and exceptional craftsmanship. Each temple holds a considerable amount of historical information of the ancient kingdom’s era, carved mostly in stone.
Jetwing Kandy Gallery
Deluxe Room
Bed & Breakfast
Day 03
After breakfast leave to Kotmale to experience the toddy tapping and jaggery manufacturing process.
Jetwing Kandy Gallery
Deluxe Room
Bed & Breakfast
Day 04
After the breakfast leave for Nuwaraeliya.
Spend the day at leisure taking a stroll along the tranquil little town and experience its cold weather and beautiful environment.
Stafford Bungalow
Deluxe Room
Bed & Breakfast
Day 05
After breakfast visit the tea plantation and also a tea factory visit Once in the tea factory, you would generally start out in the plantation itself to learn about how tea is cultivated, then visit the factory where ancient machines pre-dating the industrial revolution wither, roll and dry the tea. There is normally a little time at the end of the tour for a tea tasting, either of one specific type of tea or occasionally of the various specialties of that particular factory. Much like a wine tasting, a traditional tea tasting would involve drinking tea (without milk), swilling it around the mouth to get the taste, and then spitting it out into a spittoon. A few tea factories stick to these traditional methods, although the spittoon method is not so popular these days! It’s definitely worth your time to pay a visit, even if only to get a chance to see the antique machines at work. Enjoy a cup of tea, with a chance to purchase various types of tea too.
Afterwards, leave to Wellawaya.
Jetwing Kaduruketha
Deluxe Room
Bed & Breakfast
Day 06
Organic farming experience-visit kaduruketha organic garden/bathala roti making process
Village tour to a local village and make traditional foods
Farmers talk-story telling
Jetwing Kaduruketha
Deluxe Room
Bed & Breakfast
Day 07
Book donation to a rural school/Gampanguwa school
Ellawala bicycle ride
Jetwing Kaduruketha
Deluxe Room
Bed & Breakfast
Day 08
After breakfast leave to Udawalawe.
Once reached Udawalawe visit the Elephant Transit Home which takes care of orphaned elephant calves – until they are independent and able enough to be released back to the wild. The Transit Home is a lively place. Feeding milk to the calves every three hours is a recurring job on all 365 days of the year. Elephant calves at ETH are fed once every three hours. ETH turns into frenzy if the feeding times are delayed; the pathetic cry and the charges of elephants for milk is agonizing to hear. Getting the orphaned elephant calves adapted to milk powder and a whole new environment requires utmost patience and care, as there is still no special milk formulae that has been introduced for elephants.
In general the calves are fed human baby milk formulae. After the initial milk feeding sessions of finding out the best milk formulae for elephant calves – to suit them individually, the elephants are at a higher risk of falling sick with digestive problems or milk intolerance. In those instances special preparations like soya milk, rice broth or jeevanee (a rehydration solution) are provided in place of milk to bring them back to normalcy.
Also visit the Buffalo curd manufacturing process in the nearby village Breakfast, lunch, or dinner; elevenses, afternoon snack, or dessert; buffalo curd always hits the spot. But despite buffalo curd being a quintessential favourite in the Sri Lankan pantry, its arduous journey, from teet to table, is often overlooked.
Kalus Hideaway
Deluxe Room
Bed & Breakfast
Day 09
After breakfast leave to Negombo for one last night.
Spend the day at leisure.
Villa Hundira
Deluxe Room
Bed & Breakfast
Day 10
If time permits and in accordance with the clients preference arrange for a city tour around Negombo where you could experience the Negombo fish market. Negombo is well known for traditional fishing industry on the network of canals of Dutch-era connecting to Negombo lagoon. The town is home for the Island’s second largest fish market, as locals call – “Lellama”.
The fish market is close to Dutch Fort, which the beach is in the sides. Visitors can spot it across the lagoon bridge, known as “Munnakare Bridge”. Lellama is one of the eye catching places in Negombo, particularly for foreigners. Visitors get a chance to walk on the beach and watch fishermen untangle their fishing nets. Many tourists visit this place to take photos, see fish auction and get grounds-on real experience of a tropical fish market in Sri Lanka.
Though it will be difficult to say goodbye, all good things come to an end. Your representative from Sri Lanka will meet you on time in the hotel lobby to return you by way of a scenic drive to the international airport for your departing flight and a safe journey home.
Negombo/BIA
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