It is a diverse culture in Sri Lanka, and it varies from region to region. Spend your holiday with authentic local families and experience their cultures. Sri Lankan homestay tours are primarily designed to let you experience and witness the beautiful souls of Sri Lanka. You will learn how to cook delicious meals at home, cultivate crops, and live a rich lifestyle from them. You will probably want to extend your Culture, Food and Cooking experience with a local family in a Homestay in Kandy, Sri Lanka tour.
Day 1
- Transfer to Kandy
- There you will be warmly greeted by Our host at their homestay in Kandy and you will be introduced to their family members
- Enjoy a freshly plucked Coconut drink.
- You will be ushered to their lovely Tree House.
- Enjoy a home-cooked lunch and spend the afternoon at leisure wandering around the area seeing people, village groceries, and paddy fields and observe the local culture on your own.
- The host will accompany you to a village bakery to buy bread for dinner where you could witness how a traditional bakery works and even make your own bread.
- While at home you could taste the freshly made bread with homemade local curries as accompaniments. What a better way to experience local culture and food?
- Sleep overnight in a Tree House at the homestay in Kandy.
Day 2
- Enjoy a sincere breakfast prepared at home.
- The host at the homestay will be taking you to visit a local market to buy the ingredients for lunch. The host will introduce you to local spices and healthy vegetables with healing properties while you experience a chaos of a local market.
- After returning to your homestay accommodation, you could join with the host to cook and learn the local way of preparing a very tasty meal using traditional methods.
- After lunch, you could spend some relaxing time on your own at the Tree House, or even take a brief nap.
- In the afternoon the host will accompany you to the Kandy Temple of Tooth Relic to witness and observe centuries-old pilgrim rituals of Buddhist people and pay homage to Lord Buddha's Tooth Relic.
- Join with the local family and make a fish BBQ for dinner; this is a very experiential and joyful event.
- Sleep overnight in a Tree House at the homestay in Kandy.
Day 3
- Early breakfast at the property
- Along with your neatly packed picnic lunch leave to explore an authentic mountainous village in Kandy where one could witness the real rural lives, culture, tea estates, forest patches, waterfall, terraced paddy fields, and domestic spice fields.
- You would also see buffaloes being used to work in paddy fields as they cannot bring any machinery into mountainous villages, so this is a perfect place to witness traditional agricultural methods.
- The trip comes to end when you are brought to Kandy town. During these three days, you just witnessed very authentic local culture, village life and the best of home-cooked Sri Lankan food.
- Accommodation in a Tree house for two nights
- Meals from day one lunch to day 3 lunch
- Fees for the all mentioned activities in the itinerary
All rates are in US Dollars
- Kandy Temple of Tooth Relic
- Tree House at the home stay in Kandy
- Visit a local market
- Host to cook and learn the local way
- Explore an authentic mountainous village in Kandy
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