India is a country that is deep-rooted several cultures, traditions, and history. All these lie in its fascinating and captivating historical monuments. Its neighbouring country, Sri Lanka is a country with diverse mountains, temples, shrines, waterfalls, and coastal towns. So travel with us and witness the true allure of India and Sri Lanka this vacation. Through the tour package, enjoy with your friends, with your family or with your significant other. Get a chance to indulge in fun water activities such as scuba diving, free diving, snorkelling, kite surfing, and wakeboarding. Also, go on a hike across waterfalls. Get to witness one of the Seven Wonders of the World along with rare turtles and wild Asian elephants. The journey will begin in Delhi from where you will visit Jaipur and Agra. Then, you will be transferred to Sri Lanka where you will arrive at Colombo. From there, you will visit marvellous locations which include Kandy, and Bentota.
Arrive at the Delhi Airport, our tour representative would greet and assist you to the pre-booked hotel. Check in to the hotel. Delhi is an amazing representation of contemporary India where the past glory has been mixed perfectly. The capital city is an amazing treasury of several cultures of India that can be seen everyday life of the city.
Overnight: Delhi
After breakfast, day by discovering Old Delhi and visit the majestic Red Fort spread over an area of 2 km. Visit India’s largest mosque - Jama Masjid, travel through the bustling market, and take a cycle rickshaw ride through narrow alleys and lanes in Chandni Chowk.
Apart from all this, you will also get the opportunity to enjoy a walking tour with your guide through the largest spice market in Asia, called Khari Baoli.
Visit Raj Ghat- a black marble platform that marks the spot of Mahatma Gandhi's cremation. Later, enjoy an Enroute taking picture Rajpath area and see the President's House, Parliament House, and other Government Secretariat Buildings which are the most imposing features of Lutyen’s Delhi. Take a photo stop at the iconic war memorial arch - the India Gate.
Thereafter, visit Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, the largest Sikh temple of Delhi, where you will see the community kitchen serving food to nearly 40,000 people every day, irrespective of caste, color, creed, sex or religion. Later transfer to hotel
Overnight: Delhi
Meals: Breakfast
After breakfast, embark on a leisurely drive to Agra, city of the world-famous Taj Mahal. Enroute visit the splendid Agra Fort built in red sandstone, encapsulating magnificent palaces, halls of public, private audience & beautiful gardens. Later transfer to hotel
Overnight: Agra
Meals: Breakfast
Early morning visit the surreal Taj Mahal. Step inside this eternal symbol of love and appreciate the intricate designs and symmetries that rhyme like a poem written in marble. Taj Mahal is an extravagant display of love, built by Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved
wife Mumtaz Mahal.
Later, embark on a leisurely drive to Jaipur –The land of the Rajputs. Jaipur is known as the 'Pink City', home to ancient forts and palaces .Upon arrival, check-in at your hotel for 03-nights’ stay.
Later, continue your drive to Jaipur, Rajasthan’s capital. It is an enthralling, historical city and the gateway to India’s most flamboyant state. The city’s colorful, chaotic streets ebb and flow with a heady brew of old and new.
Note: Sunrise Visits are closed on Every Friday
Overnight Stay in Jaipur
Meals: Breakfast
Rise early this morning to visit Jaipur’s famous Amber fort built in the 16th century. The fort is a mesmerizing blend of Hindu and Mughal architecture. The Amber Fort was used by Rajputs for the dual purpose of defense and private residence. The fort encompasses charming gardens and magnificent palaces made from marble and precious stones, richly decorated with intricate stonemason works and paintings, which represents royal splendor
and luxury of the Rajput era. To ascend up the fort, you may choose to take an elephant ride(Optional).
This afternoon, take a photo stop at the Hawa Mahal, Palace of the Winds, with its unique layer-cake honeycomb windows designed to enable erstwhile women of the royal court to observe passing life without being seen; Jal Mahal , a palace in the middle of the Man Sagar Lake in Jaipur city,
Later proceed to City Palace in Jaipur is a crown jewel in the old pink-walled quarters of Jaipur. Hundreds of history buffs, occasional travellers, and families visit this royal residence today to catch a glimpse of Jaipur’s Kachwaha dynasty. Later transfer to hotel
Overnight: Jaipur
Meals: Breakfast
After breakfast, take a flight for Colombo. Arrival and transfer to Colombo, If time permits, do a city/shopping tour in Colombo .Overnight stay at the Hotel - Colombo.
Colombo – the trade and commercial capital has long been the traditional gateway to the Orient. Sri Lanka’s largest city, it is located on the west coast and draws together all the cultures, religions and influences of foreign lands into a potpourri of sounds, smells, and a kaleidoscope of colour. The original traders and settlers - the Arabs, Portuguese, Dutch, and the British have left in their wake churches and monuments, names and religions, costumes and food, and smatterings of their languages which have been absorbed into the speech of the Sri Lankan. Today,
Colombo is a fascinating city - a happy blend of east &awest, past & present, with a charm of its own. A less known but amazingly true fact is that has a superb range of high-quality restaurants serving food from all over the world and some of the best shopping opportunities in Asia. The main seaport of Sri Lanka is in Colombo & adjoining it, is Pettah, a local bazaar & trading area. Other places of interest are the beautiful Buddhist temples, Hindu temples, mosques, the historic Wolfe dhal church, (1749) residential areas where you find the stately homes of the affluent, , the Ceramic Corporation famous for its well-known brand “Noritake” and ODEL the renowned shopping center.
Overnight: Colombo
Meals: Breakfast
Breakfast at the hotel, Transfer to Kandy, enroute visit Pinnawala elephant orphanage. Evening do a city/shopping tour in Kandy including Temple of tooth relic, Royal Botanical garden, Kandy lake, wood carving, gem shop and Gem museum Late evening witness of the cultural show
Overnight stay at the hotel-Kandy
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage – set amongst the verdant hills of Kegalle is a unique orphanage, where the tiny tots weigh 60 kg or more. This is the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, the world's first and only elephant orphanage established to feed, nurse and house young elephants lost or abandoned by their mothers. Other occupants are elephants displaced from their natural environs by development projects or those found wounded. Visitors could see the baby elephants being fed milk from gigantic feeding bottles or bathed in the river which flows nearby – an unforgettable sight! Established in 1975, by the Wildlife Department and National Zoological gardens which subsequently led to a breeding programme through which more than twenty five elephants have been born since 1984.
Kandy – a lovely exotic city, the Hill Capital and last stronghold of the Sinhala Kings is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which retains an aura of grandeur, the time has not affected. Encircled by hills, with a tranquil lake in its centre, it is the site of the renowned temple that enshrines the Tooth Relic of the Buddha and the Royal Botanical gardens – home to one of the world’s best collections of Orchids. A cultural sanctuary where many legends, traditions and folklore are still lovingly kept alive, Kandy and its satellite villages are the centre of the islands handicraft industry (items of wood, brass & silver) exquisite silver or gold jewellery and precious gems of many varieties including the world’s best blue and star sapphires. The highlight of the city’s calendar is the Esala Perahera when a replica of the casket enclosing the Tooth is taken in procession for ten glittering nights in July/August by exotically costumed dancers, drummers, and approximately 100 Elephants.
Overnight: Kandy
Meals: Breakfast
Breakfast at the hotel, transfer to Bentota, Do a city tour in Bentota including Madhu riverboat safari, and visit Turtle hatchery (optional do water sports in Bentota river)
Overnight stay at the hotel – Bentota
Bentota – situated on the southwest coast, at the confluence of the sea and the Bentota River, the sun-drenched location and its golden, palm-fringed beaches which border the warm, sparkling waters of the Indian Ocean made it a natural choice for development as the first tourist resort. Today it is known in Sri Lanka’s global tourist markets as a highly attractive holiday resort with a wide and varied choice of distinctive hotels to suit every taste and purse. Bentota has a complete range of tourist facilities, great seafood, and very popular water sports centers which provide boating, water skiing, jet-skiing, snorkeling, and windsurfing.
Overnight: Bentota
Meals: Breakfast
Where You'll stay | ||
City | Nights | Hotels |
Delhi | 2 | Radisson Blu/ Vivanta By Taj or Similar |
Agra | 1 | Radisson or Similar |
Jaipur | 2 | Marriott or Similar |
Colombo | 1 | Movenpick or Similar |
Kandy | 1 | Tourmaline or Similar |
Bentota | 1 | Heritance Ahungalla or Similar |