England cricket tour to Sri Lanka, 2007

Sri Lankan cricket fans

Price: 

1200 GB £ per person (group size 04 to 10) excluding air fare.
(But we can book air tickets on request, separately)

Prices may vary slightly according to special requests.

Price includes: Accommodation • Breakfast and Dinner • Bottled water through out the tour • Transport including departure to the Airport or beach hotel • Entrance fee to the Forest

Price excludes: Air Fair / Airport tax • Camera / Video fees • Lunch • Alcoholic beverages, local tips and other personal expenses.

For further details / bookings please contact.

Dates of operation

28th September to 14th October (17 days)

Featured Activities

This is a very special tour package with a fully escorted CRICKET HOLIDAY watching 3 one-day internationals, added with exploring and sightseeing the beautiful island as well as exiting cultural and wildlife tours. The tour leader is a qualified cricket umpire. Accommodation is star class.

Trip highlights

1. Watch 03 cricket ODI matches Sri Lanka vs. England

2. A quite, relaxing and luxury accommodation

3. Walking, culture and sight seeing

4. A taste of wildlife and adventure

5. Enjoy sun, sea and sand
   

Match Dates:

Visits to ancient cultural sites and cities

• Anuradhapura ancient capital, a world heritage site (5th Cen. BC)
• Polonnaruwa ancient capital, a world heritage site (10th cen. AD)
• Sigiriya, world heritage site (5th cen. AD)
  Dambulla cave temple, a world heritage site (1st cen. BC)
• Kandy - Temple of The Sacred Tooth Relic, a world heritage site (16th cen. AD)
  

Wildlife national parks

• Horton plains national park (Sambar deer,endemic birds and cloud forest)
• Yala National Park (Leopards and sloth bears)
• Bundala National Park (Water birds and migrants)
• Wasgomuwa National Park (Elephant herds)
  
  

Visits to other interesting places,

• Royal Botanical Gardens, Kandy
• Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage
• Marine turtle hatchery
• Tea plantations and a factory
• Spice farm
• Wood, batik and gem work shops

Tour Itinerary

Tour Leader:

Prasanjith, a qualified cricket umpire, and founder of Walk With Jith, will accompany you as the tour leader.

For further details / bookings please contact.

Impact of the trip to people and nature

Our national cricket team is a good example of ethnically divers group achieving tremendous popularity and success. The team has contributed to Tsunami relief and many other social services in Sri Lanka. The tour leader, being a qualified cricket umpire, passionately seek to cultivate these messages of charity, peace and care in the tour locations. We always give our best assistance to visitors who are willing to donate to charity that would benefit the locals.

We buy the service of locals who are trained as guides, trackers, cooks, stewards & etc. Our IT services are all local. The hotels that we go to employ locals. Visitors are encouraged to buy craft products straight from the village craftspersons. We will not promote commercial sales aimed at tourists. The aim of this is to improve the lives of the people in the areas that we visit and at the same time to give the visitor a high quality service.

The visitor is given the opportunity to buy quality hygienic food and beverages from villagers including native herbal drinks, traditional sweets, locally available fresh fruits & etc.

If the visitor decides to have no meat products (to avoid health risks & other reasons), we make sure that he gets quality organic vegetarian dishes.

Finally, we encourage lasting connections between the visitors and the locals in the believe that it leads to better inter-nation understanding and a more friendly world

For further details / bookings please contact.