Sri Lanka Train / Drive Tour (6D/5N)
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Sri Lanka Train / Drive Tour (6D/5N) Details*
This special Sri Lanka Train / Drive Tour is certainly a must for everybody who wants to explore Sri Lanka's hill country in a very special way.
The railway network was introduced by the British colonial government in 1864. The main reason for building a railway system in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) was to transport tea and coffee from the hill country to the capital city Colombo. Still today a journey by train from Kandy to the highlands of Nuwara Eliya, Ella or Dickoya is one of the most fabulous experiences Sri Lanka has to offer. The climb uphill up to 6,000 ft above sea level, is one of the greatest railway journeys in the world. The dramatic landscape of the highlands stirs the senses as you wind past lush tea plantations, majestic peaks and rushing waterfalls.
The Sri Lanka Train / Drive Tours can be easily combined with another Sri Lanka Tour or a Sri Lanka Holiday Package.
If you have any questions and/or need to customization, please contact us or use the "Notes" field in the form below.
SRI LANKA TRAIN / DRIVE TOUR (6 days / 5 nights)
Day 1 : Your driver will meet you at the airport or your hotel and continue to Colombo City. Depending on your time of arrival / pick-up you will enjoy a Colombo sightseeing tour (optional) or proceed directly to your hotel.
Overnight at a 3* Hotel in Colombo
Day 2 : After breakfast you will be picked you up from your hotel and proceed to the Colombo Fort train station from where you journey to Kandy starts by train (please ask us for availabilty).
This train ride will take you by the famous Muthurajawela marshland, through villages and vast paddy fields.
Once in Kandy, our driver who will await you at the railway station, takes you to your hotel for relaxing afternoon.
Overnight at a 3* Hotel in Kandy
Day 3 : In the morning you will visit Elephant Orphanage in Pinawella to watch around 80 elephants in their natural environments. Here you can feed the baby elephants from the milk bottle or even walk with them to their bath in the nearby river.
After lunch is time to explore beauty of this Buddhist capital city with its famous and most important Temple of The Tooth, Peradeniya botanical garden, bazaars and batik and gem museums.
Overnight at a 3* Hotel in Kandy
Day 4 : After breakfast you will proceed to Sigiriya by car to visit the Sigiriya, the ruins of an ancient palace in a 200m high rock fortress, overlooking the beautiful plains of North-Central Sri Lanka.
After the climb and perhaps short elephant ride through the jungle around the rock you will visit another gem of Sri Lanka`s heritage, The Golden Temple in Dambulla which is the largest and best preserved cave temple complex in Sri Lanka spread over 5 caves with total of 153 statues of Buddha.
Overnight at a 3* Hotel in Kandy
Day 5 : Another train ride is on the program today and you will spend about half day by traveling through lush green tea plantation as far as the eye can see, numerous beautiful waterfalls, long dark tunnels and over the amazing arch bridges to Ella.
Overnight at a 3* Hotel in Ella
Day 6 : From Ella you can continue with continue with one of our Sri Lanka Tours or Sri Lanka Holiday Packages or have another adventurous train ride (optional) through lush green tea plantation as far as the eye can see, numerous beautiful waterfalls, long dark tunnels and over the amazing arch bridges back to Colombo.
The Sri Lanka Train / Drive Tour includes transportation by a/c luxux limousine or Japanese Mini Van with driver / guide, accommodation in selected luxury hotels, train tickets, excluding entry fees.
Accommodation in double room, on b&b basis.
Rate (per person): US$ 475
*can easily be combined with our other Sri Lanka Tours or one of our Sri Lanka Holiday Packages
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Book Train/ Drive Tour (6D/5N) - Sri Lanka from $475 *
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