Receive at the Colombo International Airport and proceed to Polonnaruwa. On the visit to the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, the world’s first orphanage for elephants. You will have chance of entertaining the bottle feeding for baby elephants. Then proceed to Polonnaruwa via Dambulla. Lunch at Dambulla. Polonnaruwa is the second ancient capital of Sri Lanka during 11th and 13th Centuries AD. Declared as the World Heritage Site for its historical importance, it shows the ancient Sri Lankans’ master sculpture work and irrigation systems which are still mysterious to the present world. King’s palaces, Buddhist Shrines, Man made ocean, Rock sculptures, Rock inscriptions, complexes etc. prove the ancient value. Dinner and Overnight at Giritale or Habarana.

 After breakfast, leave the hotel at around 8:00 am. Visit to Sigiriya a city, palace and garden complex centering a 200 meter high rock is a glowing tribute to the vision of King Kashyapa who created this ‘Palace in the Sky’ in the 5th century AD. On the summit of the Sigiriya rock (meaning the ‘Lion Rock’) that is over 1.5 hectares in extent are the remains of a large palace, the earliest surviving royal palace in Sri Lanka, with several chambers and a bathing pond. The celebrated paintings of 5th century AD, meticulously planned water gardens at the foot of the rock, boulder gardens, the mirror wall, etc are one of the wonders in Asia. After Sigiriya proceed to Kandy. En route visit Aluvihara Temple at Matale where the Buddhist preaching were recorded for the first time in the history Buddhism in 2 century BC. Then visit a Hindu temple too in Matale. Go to the hotel in Kandy and have a rest. Evening you will be visiting to see the Kandyan traditional dance and then to the Temple of Tooth Relic the most sacred place in Sri Lanka where the tooth relic of the Buddha is kept. The temple shows the excellent sculpture work of Kandyan Artists whose generations still carry out their master piece of work. Return to Hotel for dinner and overnight in Kandy.

After breakfast, leave the hotel at around 8:00 am. Go for a upper lake drive where you can have paramount view of Kandy City and the temple of tooth relic. Kandy City is declared as the World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The history behind this last Sinhalese Kingdom is very interesting. You can enjoy shopping in Kandy where you get the country’s most best shops specially for the products and ornaments made artistically. Then visit Botanical Garden at Peradeniya where there are more than 4300 species of plants and trees including Sri Lankan endemic plants and world’s rare types. It will take around two hours to completely go around the garden as there are 32 sections inside. After lunch proceed to Colombo, the commercial capital of Sri Lanka. Evening Colombo city tour including visits to Independence Square, Old Parliament, Hindu Temple, etc. Dinner and Overnight in Colombo.

Departure transfer to Airport