Arrive at Katunayake airport and be transferred to your Colombo
hotel.
Accommodation profile:
Sri Lanka is famed for its geniality, and the Ceylon Continental
exemplifies it. Its warm welcome is striking for a 5-star city
centre hotel – and that matters. Outstanding value for
money and bonny pool deck.
Day 2:
After breakfast, travel to the famed lakeside town of Kandy
– the last stand of the Sri Lankan kings. Visit Pinnawela
elephant orphanage en route and see orphaned elephants feed
and bathe as they are trained for a return to the wild. Visit
the Dalada Maligawa – the temple of the sacred tooth relic
of the Buddha -- and sightsee.
Accommodation
profile: The Tree of Life sprawls across 64
acres of woody, hilly terrain, a haven of solitude where guests
prefer dawn nature walks to noisier pleasures. An individualistic
hotel with ayurvedic philosophy at its heart.
Day 3 (Riding Day):
After breakfast, mount and ride through the Hantana route: over
the hills, through sweeping grassy plains, cultivation areas
and mountainous terrain. Have a restful lunch in a quite garden
under tents before departing once again through similar terrain,
trekking through villages and jungle pathways. Transfer to Nuwara
Eliya, the quaint hillside town known as Little England.
Riding: 3-5 hrs, 25km-30kms Accommodation profile: St Andrews’
Hotel, a stately Tudor-style colonial mansion built in the latter
part of the 19th century, is our recommendation in Nuwara Eliya.
Standing alongside imposing pine trees, it has a stern exterior,
but inside is a world of open fires and candlelit dinners.
Day 4 (Riding Day):
After breakfast ride through tea plantations
and over the hills before stopping for a picnic lunch. Evening
provides another unforgettable trek through the tea bushes,
seeing the country the way the planters did in the cooler temperatures
of the hills.
Riding: 4-5 hrs, 25km.
Day 5 (Riding Day):
After an early breakfast, take the inspiring two-hour journey
to Ella. Mount at 9am and ride in its spectacular mountain scenery.
The ride will pass through welcoming hamlets and soothing green
paddy fields. Splash across the streamlets and trot through
jungle trails in another untouched area of the island.
Picnic lunch will be alongside a lake, under the shade of tents,
while the houses bathe. The evening ride will include a similar
scene: trekking over untamed lands and small villages to arrive
at the Ella Adventure Park before nightfall. A hike of 2km is
required to the Jungle Camp.
Accommodation
profile: Ella Adventure Park nestles on the
banks of Kirindi river, six miles to the south of Ella village,
amid the stirring peaks of the Southern Highlands. The chance
for challenging outdoor activities in an unspoilt jungle setting.
Day 6 (Riding day):
After breakfast engage in the activities available at one of
the only eco-friendly hotels in Sri Lanka. Activities range
from abseiling, Rock climbing, bathing the fresh water stream
running through the hotel or even in the private waterfall available
to each cabin.
Or else, riders are invited to relax and soak in the peaceful
atmosphere of nature that is evident in the cup shaped valley
housing the jungle camp. After a traditional Sri Lankan lunch
and rest depart to beach hotel.
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