Herbal & Spice Garden.
Sri Lanka is world renowned for its valued spices and healing herbs. Our lush spice and
herbal gardens feature many important herbs such as Sandalwood, Margosa, Cocoa,
Citronella, Almond, Jasmine and Coconut. When visiting us, make the most of the
chance to experience first-hand how cloves, pepper, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon and
saffron are grown in their natural surroundings.
Tea plantation and Tea factory for a tasting
session.
Tea, Sri Lanka’s tea cultivators and manufacturers are the custodians of the
traditional, orthodox method of black tea production. This is still agreed by most
experts to produce the best black tea. Even with the technological improvements
introduced over the last thirty or forty years, the orthodox method is relatively slow
and labor-intensive; but as the tea planters and traders of Sri Lanka have always
maintained, good tea cannot be hurried. Nor, oddly enough, can it be delayed. The time
devoted to each of the processes of tea manufacture has to be finely judged if a quality
product is to be obtained
After the tea Factory, proceed to visit Royal Botanical Garden in Peradeniya.
Royal Botanical Garden, Peradeniya is situated about 5.5 km to the west from the city
of Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka and attracts 1.2 million visitors annually,
It is renowned for its collection of a variety of orchids. It includes more than 300
varieties of orchids, spices, medicinal plants and palm trees
Gem museum,
Wood Carving and the Batik Factory and see the various phases of batik
manufacture.
Batik has been an ancient art of painting cloth and today Sri Lanka is among the
world leaders in the design of batik. Batik galleries and factories offer batik from
simple single-colored designs to intricate multi-colored masterpieces.
Gem stones of Sri Lanka are many and varied, some rare and precious, others
considered semi precious but equally beautiful.Sri Lankan gem stones are found in
alluvial deposits of old river beds which have been covered by centuries of over lay
from the eroding of the surrounding hills.
Wood carving industry is believed to be emerged first from temples in Sri Lanka at
the beginning of early 1357 AD.
On completion,
Visit the Temple of the Tooth Relic in Kandy.
The Sacred Tooth Relic (Dālada) of the Buddha is the most venerated object of worship
for Buddhists. Its present house, the Temple of the Tooth Relic (Dālada Māligāwa) in
Kandy, Sri Lanka is considered the foremost sacred place of worship in the Buddhist
world.
In the evening witness a “Cultural Show” where each of the energetic dances
• performed tells its own story to the sound of drums and flutes.
