01 Night 02 Days Kandy And Dambulla - Sigiriya - From Colombo

Please keep your mind there is challenging walking to sigiriya Rock.

Don't forget dress long sleeves at the buddies temple cover the shoulder . And remove you hat and shoes before entering to the temple.

Pinnawela elephant orphanage one of most tourists attractions. It was set up 1975 to look after seven orphaned baby elephants though the orphanage population has now mushroomed to around 90 making it the world s largest collection of captive elephants . The elephant here range in age from newborn to elderly matriarch and includ orphaned and abandoned elephants as well as those injured in the wild .

Peradeniya Botanical Garden the largest and finest garden in srilanka, covering almost 150 acres and stuffed with a bewildering variety of local foreign trees and plants species. The history of the site dates right back to the fourteen century. When wickramabahu III established a royal residence here.

The Hills County has been shaped by two very different historical forces. The northern portion around the historic city kandy was home srilanka last independent Kingdom. Which survived two centuries of colonial incursions before finally falling to the British at the beginning of the nineteenth century .

The cultural legacy of this independent sinhalese tradition lives on today in the city distinctive music dance and architecture encapsulated by the temple of tooth home to the island most revered buddies relic and the exuberant kandy esala perahera one of the Asia most spectacular festivals.