9D8N HIGHLIGHTS OF SRI LANKA & JAFFNA (PRIVATE TOUR)
Description
Itinerary
Price
Hotel
Remarks
Description
Overview
This itinerary explores Sri Lanka’s cultural heritage, natural beauty, and vibrant modern life. Key highlights include sacred temples, UNESCO sites like Galle Fort, breathtaking tea plantations in Nuwara Eliya, and wildlife at Yala National Park. The journey ends with sightseeing and shopping in Colombo.
Included/Excluded
- Above mentioned hotels/similar on BB Basis. (Bed & Breakfast Basis – 8 Breakfast)
- Private tour and Transportation as per itinerary with English Speaking guide
- Entrance fees, government taxes and service charges including toll, parking & fuel cost.
- Explore UNESCO World Heritage sites (Entrance Fees Included for Nagapoosani Temple, Stilt Fishing & Kandy Temple of Relic Tooth)
- All taxes
- Return International flight ticket
- Travel insurance
- Sri Lanka Visa
- Personal expenses like phone calls, laundry, alcoholic, and non-alcoholic beverages
- Tips RM 15 – RM 25 per day
- Optional tours and any other expenses or services not mentioned in inclusions.
- Peak Period Perahera supplement – RM 130 per room per night @ Oakray Serene Garden
- 8 lunches at Outside Restaurant – RM 480 per person
- 8 dinner at Outside Restaurant –RM 590 per person
Itinerary
Day 1: Colombo
- Upon arrival in Sri Lanka, meet with our representative and proceed to Negombo/Colombo for overnight stay.
Day 2 & Day 3: Negombo – Jaffna (Breakfast)
- After breakfast proceed to Jaffna to visit Mannawari Temple.
- Rama is believed to have installed a shiva lingam, an icon of Lord Shiva, at Manawari Kovil in Chilaw.
- Later proceed to Munneswaram Kovil – one of the three celebrated ancient Isvarams of Lord Shiva the other two being Thiruketheeswaram near Mannar and Konneswaram in Trincomalee.
- Visit Jaffna District, Nagapooshani Temple (Nainativu) Jaffna, Nallur Temple, Karainagar Sivan Kovil, Keerimalai Naguleswaram Temple and Jaffna Fort.
- Back to hotel.
Day 4: Jaffna – Trincomalee (Breakfast)
- After breakfast proceed to Trincomalee.
- Visti Koneswaram Kovil, where the temple is built on top of the cliff, tottering right on the edge of the Indian Ocean.
- Among the sights of the place are the seven hot springs of Kanniya, on the road to Trincomalee.
- Overnight stay at Trincomalee.
Day 5: Trincomalee – Kandy (Breakfast)
- After breakfast, proceed to Kandy.
- Visit Spice Garden in Matale to see the different spices, which Sri Lanka is famous for.
- You will be introduced to different spices and shown how some of these spices are grown and processed in Kandy, including Upper Lake Drive, Market Square, Arts & Crafts Centre, Gem Museum & Temple of Tooth Relic.
- By the night, experience a colourful show where you will be taken to mind blowing Sri Lankan culture extravaganza.
- Overnight stay at Kandy.
Day 6: Kandy – Nuwara Eliya (Breakfast)
- After breakfast, proceed to Nuwara Eliya and visit Sri Baktha Hanuman Temple at Ramboda.
- On every full moon day special pooja’s are conducted and witnessed by thousands of devotees.
- Visit Seetha Amman Temple.
- Enjoy “Tea Experience”, which involves a visit to a plantation to observe first-hand the process, starting from the plucking field where it all begins with the picking of “two leaves and a bud” to the factory where the processing begins.
- Back to hotel.
Day 7: Nuwara Eliya – Kataragama (Breakfast)
- After breakfast, proceed to Kataragama.
- Kataragama is a popular pilgrimage destination frequented by adherents of all religions in Sri Lanka.
- The annual procession held in July or August is the main event of the shrine with fire walkers and Kawadi dancers.
- Offering to the god is made at 4.30am 10.30am and 6.30pm daily.
- Overnight stay at Kataragama.
Day 8: Kataragama – Galle (Breakfast)
- After breakfast proceed to Galle world heritage site. (Optional – RM200 /- entrance per person – RM 300 for JEEP Safari max 6 pax)
- At dusk, visit the Yala National Park with a total protected area of 126,768 hectares, Yala consists of scrub plains, lagoons and rocky sections and offers the broadest cross-section of the country’s flora and fauna.
- One of the most iconic scenes you’re bound to see in Sri Lanka is stilt fishing.
- Galle Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, originally built by the Portuguese and then further developed by the Dutch and the British, covers nearly four sq kms, and is protected by 12 bastions and connecting ramparts.
- Buildings of interest include the Dutch Reformed Church, All Saints Church, Amangalla Hotel (formerly the New Oriental Hotel), and the lighthouse and bell tower.
- Overnight stay at Galle.
Day 9: Galle – Colombo – Departure (Breakfast)
- After breakfast proceed to Colombo.
- Visit to Panchamuga Anjaneyar Temple in Dehiwala the only Temple in the world to have a chariot for Anjaneyar.
- Proceed to Colombo, drive through the city.
- Visit the BMICH, see the replica of Avukana Buddha and the Independence Aquare.
- Start shopping in Colombo, visit ODEL, House of Fashion, Arcade Independence Square and Beverly Street.
- Visit the bargain market in Colombo Pettah.
- Late evening, transfer to airport for departure.
Price
THIS TABLE BELOW SHOWS COST PER PERSON
| Category | Single Supplement | 1 People | 2 People | 4 People | 6 People | 5 People | Child With Bed | Child Without Bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Star | MYR 1210 | MYR 6730 | MYR 3750 | MYR 3060 | MYR 2780 | MYR 2930 | MYR 820 | MYR 240 |
| 4 Star | MYR 1810 | MYR 7310 | MYR 4610 | MYR 3930 | MYR 3640 | MYR 3800 | MYR 780 | MYR 240 |
| 5 Star | MYR 2190 | MYR 9100 | MYR 5110 | MYR 4430 | MYR 4140 | MYR 4300 | MYR 1000 | MYR 360 |
Hotel
THIS TABLE BELOW SHOWS COST PER PERSON
| City | Hotels |
|---|---|
| Negombo / Wattala | Pegasus Hotel, Negombo or similar |
| Yala / Kataragama | Chaarya Resort & Spa or similar |
| Galle | South Lake Resort or similar |
| Bentota | Hotel Palms Beruwala or similar |
| Colombo | Fairway Colombo or similar |
Remarks
- Rooms are subject to availability upon confirmation of the booking.
- Entrance for child – half rate from the adult fees.
- Incidental charges will be on the passenger’s account.
- Itineraries can be change as per the flight schedule, guest choice, your advice and the required conditions.
- Above rates are available from 15 April 2025 till 31 October 2025.
