Culinary Tour – 13N | 14D

Travel time: Approx. 30mints drive. On arrival you will be welcomed to our island paradise by one of our hand selected Guide. Afterwards you will be escorted to your vehicle and transfer to your hotel. Check in to your hotel and relax the afternoon, later in the afternoon take a boat trip along the canal.

Travel time: Approx. 03.30hrs drive. After an early breakfast take a walk in the fish market of Negombo and you can select a Sea Food item on your choice where you will prepare it by yourself later in the day.  Head back to a village you will meet a local family and you will engage with them to prepare the Sea food which was bought from the local market in the morning. After preparing the meal with enjoy the freshly made lunch with the local family. Continue to a coconut plantation to discover why this ‘superfood’ is so central to life in Sri Lanka. Learn how all parts of the tree play an important part in daily life, sip the water of a king coconut, watch ‘toddy tappers’ extract the palm wine from the coconut sap and taste the results. Proceed to Anuradhapura and check into your hotel. Spend the afternoon enjoying the facilities at your luxury resort.

Travel time: Approx. 03.30hrs drive. This morning explores the ancient capital of Anuradhapura - a UNESCO World Heritage Site famous for its well-preserved ancient ruins. One of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, it was founded around 500 BC. Its golden age began around 260BC, when the King and his people converted to Buddhism. The city became vast, spreading over many miles. On arrival in Jaffna, transfer to your hotel. Later, you will visit the city's famous ice cream store and this evening experience Jaffna's unique cuisine with a dinner at a local home. Traditional Jaffna cuisine differs from the rest of the meals you will taste across the country.

Travel time: Approx. 03.30 hrs. drive. In the morning enjoy a nature walk through a scrub jungle, wade through a local stream with low hanging branches, cross a lake in an ‘oruwa’, the traditional mode of over water transport, spend time with a farmer harvesting crops under his guidance and taste authentic village cuisine prepared by the farmer’s family and by yourself with freshly picked produce and local herbs cooked in clay pots over an open heat fueled by firewood. Here you will experience the real Sri Lankan cooking methods which were used earlier by the Sri Lankan’s with authentic cousin. Visit Sigiriya where you climb to the Sky Fortress. The ruins of this 5th century fortress is one of Sri Lanka's major attractions, a stupendous sight to behold and a feat of consummate engineering skill. Halfway up, tucked beneath a sheltering overhang of rock, are the famous frescoes - the Sigiriya Damsels, their colors still glowing. Magnificent views can be enjoyed from the summit of the rock palace. Later in the afternoon travel back to Dambulla.

Travel time: Approx. 04.30hrs drive. The next leg of your trip will take you to the lush green city of Kandy, the island nation’s cultural capital. This was the last kingdom of Sri Lanka. Visit the Temple of the Tooth Relic known as the Sri Dalada Maligawa & Witness an iconic, traditional Kandyan dancing and drumming performance, with dancers dressed in cultural clothing.

Travel time: Approx. 02hrs drive. This Morning, two-hour drive takes us to Kandy. En route, visit the woodcarving Centre and a Spice Garden in Matale. Enlighten your-self with the different varieties of spices used in Sri Lankan cuisines, how the famous spices of Sri Lanka are grown and processed. Relax and enjoy a 10 minutes complimentary Ayurveda Massage & traditional Sri Lankan Lunch. Then visit the Temple of the Tooth Relic known as the Sri Dalia Maligawa & Witness an iconic, traditional Kandyan dancing and drumming performance, with dancers dressed in cultural clothing.

Travel time: Approx. 02.30hrs drive. Sri Lankan sweets- In the morning, you find the mistress of house to prepare together two Sri Lankan sweets. These sweets are usually prepared at important festivals such as Sri Lankan New Year's Day in April or Vesak in May. Enjoy lunch at a local outside restaurant in Kandy and then head off across the highlands, through green rolling hills covered in tea plantations, visit a working tea factory en route to the hill station of Nuwara Eliya. After checking into the hotel simply relax and enjoy the amenities at your hotel.

Morning, you’ll take a tour around this little town, known as Little England, famous for its lake, golf and racecourse and well-manicured gardens. After that travel to local house for home cooked Lunch with a Tamil family. Taste traditional Tamil cuisine with Dosa, a crispy rice pancake, and idli, a savory steamed rice cake served with curry sauces or chutneys

Travel time: Approx. 04hrs drive. After breakfast at the hotel you will start your drive towards Weerawila where you will stay in mud huts. It’s a truly magical location and experience and visit a village home where the experts teach you the secrets of making perfect buffalo curd. End your lesson with a delightful tasting of this popular and delicious dessert.

Travel time: Approx. 03hrs drive. After an early breakfast proceed to Galle. En-route taste some of the Sri Lanka’s delicious short eats from fish buns to vegetable rolls and uludu at a local bakery. Arrive on Galle. In the afternoon stroll through the streets of the UNESCO World Heritage Site – Galle Fort. It is considered as one of the best examples of a living fortified city built by Europeans in South and South East Asia.

A full free day to continue your exploration this town or simply relax and enjoy the amenities at our hotel.

Travel time: Approx. 02hrs drive. Depart for Sri Lanka's capital and largest city, Colombo. Stay in the city's finest heritage hotel in the heart of Colombo. Tonight, experience the best of Colombo's contemporary dining scene with dinner at Culinary Ceylon or Ministry of Crab at Colombo's happening Dutch Hospital Complex.

As all good things must come to an end, we bid you farewell as our Chauffeur Guide transfers you to the Airport to meet your departure flight to home. Travel time: Approx. 45mints. drive.