Recorrido privado en el día por el último reino en Kandy
Durante siglos, las especias han sido una de las mercancías de exportación más célebres de Sri Lanka y son ampliamente utilizadas para elaborar medicinas y artículos de cosmética, así como condimentos para alimentos. Podrá degustar aromas y sabores como la canela, el jengibre, la pimienta, la vainilla y el cardamomo. Batik hace referencia al antiguo arte de la mezcla de colores utilizando cera como el elemento principal y Sri Lanka es uno de sus principales exponentes. Los ejemplos pueden ir desde diseños en un único color hasta obras maestras en varios colores.
A su llegada a Giragama, visitará una plantación de té situada a 510 metros (1673 pies) sobre el nivel del mar. El té fue la primera planta introducida en Sri Lanka en 1824 en los Jardines Botánicos de Peradeniya, con la importación de algunas plantas desde China. Aquí pasará una hora explorando la plantación y la fábrica antes de salir en dirección a Kandy, situada a aproximadamente 30 minutos.
Realice un recorrido por la ciudad de Kandy, con una visita al Templo del Diente de Buda, el lago superior, la Plaza del Mercado, el lapidario de joyas y el centro de tallado de madera.
Durante el recorrido, podrá disfrutar de un almuerzo en restaurante Oakray.
Después de esta visita, será trasladado de vuelta a su hotel.
- Traslado de ida y vuelta en vehículo privado con aire acondicionado a hoteles de Negombo, Colombo, Mount Lavinia, Kalutara o Kandy
- Excursiones turísticas con servicio de un guía-chófer que habla inglés
- Almuerzo en el restaurante Oakray
- Entrada al templo de Kandy Templo y a la fábrica de té
- Cualquier tarifa de vídeo/cámara de la entrada a monumentos y lugares de visita:
- Propinas para los guías y en los restaurantes. Los trabajadores esperan recibir propinas.
- Cualquier otro gasto no mencionado en la sección El precio incluye
- Recibirá confirmación en el momento de efectuar la reserva
- Descuentos para grupos de 7 o más personas
- Se necesita un mínimo de 2 personas por reserva
Excellent but long day trip Good driver and guide and amended itinerary to suit our requirements Kandy great small city
This tour was ok but the journey is far too long to do in one day. Spent most of the time on the road in pretty heavy traffiic. Kandy is quite an interesting town with an attractive lake. Palace and temple visit was interesting. From start to finish the tour seemed to be one long sales trip.
The trip was very disappointing. The guide was more of a driver than a guide and although answered some of the questions that we asked of him, he didn't volunteer any information, at least for the first part of the day. The tour was one of commercial enterprises/shops with tips demanded in most places regardless of the performance or enthusiasm of the local shop guides. The guide asked us what our itinerary was and as we didn't have one printed out we couldn't tell him. As he didn't have one, and didn't volunteer any information we found out which factory we were going to only after arriving there. In Kandy we were stuck in traffic for an hour so only saw the main temple. The guide simply showed us the door, and didn't offer any explanation for the temple or what it's history or significance was except to tell us it dated from the last king, which meant nothing to us. The provided lunch was average. The driver was courteous at all times and at the end of the day went out of his way to show us several gem shops which resulted in a good purchase. However, unless you are happy to see only spice, tea, batik etc shops and nothing of Kandy, best to avoid this commercial tour. It is long - 6am start and we got back to Colombo at 10.30pm.
Your tour guide is less of a guide and more of a driver/wise guy shuffling you from one tourist trap to the next for his kick backs. Initially I was quite naive to this but toward the end of the day when taken to a tourist trap for traditional clothing that should have been inexpensive, I became alarmed and enlightenedno pun intended. The temple of the tooth is brilliant and I wish we had more time there. We ended up there toward the end of the day since we were delayed by all the traps and were too exhausted to enjoy it. The tea factory was actually just a shop and not a factory at all. The wood carving place was beautiful but also mainly a warehouse for shopping. The gem museum was also more store than museum. The buffet we were taken to was delicious. Our driver told us it was really cheap at 1000 rupees. If he only knew that our guide from the day before took us to a buffet for 200 rupees a person. After this tour my husband and I regretted traveling to Kandy at all and realized we actually did better shopping and touring on the days that we set out on our own or with the help of a local tuktuk driver. In fact, I probably won't use Viator again after this tour.
Lovely trip and would recommend.Its a long drive but worth it. A highlight for us was the elephant orphanage, but lunch was terrific and the sights fantastic. The Temple of the Tooth was excellent and we also really enjoyed the spice garden. We were on a cruise so we only had one day, so we saw a huge amount on this trip.
Great spot, exactly as explained - we thoroughly enjoyed it and our driver / resident expert was fantastic!
Great spot, exactly as explained - we thoroughly enjoyed it and our driver / resident expert was fantastic!