REFLECTION OF SRI LANKA

Amaya Resorts and Spas is celebrating its first year anniversary after the Re-Branding in September 2005. Connaissance Resorts re-launched their brand as Amaya Resorts and Spas last year as an initiative to further manifest the company’s Sri Lankan Roots while at the same time identifying its offerings as theme resorts. Amaya – the Sanskrit word for reality and non illusion – has been named such because it offers its customers the best of the country’s indigenous cultural and ecological heritages. This new brand has been carries across all of the company’s resorts and spas, with improvements in facade, products offered and service standard showing the Amaya’s enhanced commitment to its customers.

Amaya Lake in Dambulla allows guests to explore the monuments and ancient cities of the Cultural Triangle, to immerse themselves in healing Ayurvedic Spa therapies, and to encounter a wealth of bird life and local flora. Amaya Lake is a resort designed to invoke the cultural heritage of the Kandalama region. In the center of the Sri Lanka’s cultural triangle, the resort is within easy access of all cultural and archaeological sites of Sri Lanka. Comprising 92 air conditioned luxury chalets with all the amenities and the 11 lodges in the Eco Village nearby, 04 Super luxury club lodges with all the modern facilities, the resort also offers customers a large variety of opportunities for cultural and recreational activities such as ayurvedic health centers, visit to gem mines, wild life safaris, fresh water fishing trips and more traditional options such as the facility of a swimming pool, boating, tennis courts, etc.

Amaya Hills is designed to manifest the cultural heritage of Sri Lanka’s last kingdom of Kandy. Set on hilltop over rolling green landscape, Amaya Hills embodies the architecture of an ancient palace, with easy access to cultural attractions such as Kandy Perahera, the botanical gardens in Peradeniya, the Dalada Maligawa and Nuwara Eliya, the resort has 100 rooms with each featuring a picturesque view of the forested hills of Heerassagala which consist of 91 luxury rooms, 05 Junior Suites and 04 Suites. Guests at this resort will also have access to a multitude of recreational settings such as spas, restaurants serving international and local cuisine, a tea café, swimming pool, several bars, and Kandy’s most popular night club called ‘Le Garage’. There are more traditional activities like tennis, squash, hiking, etc. to suite the mood of any guest.

Amaya Reef in Hikkaduwa provides sea views from every room and surrounds guests with the beauty of the southern coast. It is a resort designed to provide the best of Sri Lanka’s sea side culture along with the vista of the wide blue expanse of the Indian ocean. Located in sunny Hikkaduwa within easy reach of the cultural and archaeological sites of the south, this 54 room resort and spa offers guest a wide variety of facilities for their vacation. Experiences include excursions to places of interest such as Galle, the Martin Wickramasinghe Folk Museum in Koggala, still fishing in Ahangama, the world famous Singharaja rain forest. The ‘Madu Ganga’ safari in Balapitiya, the turtle hatchery in Kosgoda, water sports in Bentota, deep sea fishing frm catamarans in Hikkaduwa or Galle, a train tour to Matara, and a moonstone mine in Meetiyagoda. The resort also features, a myriad of water and land sports, a pub etc. Also Amaya Reef is coming up with the latest night Club in Hikkaduwa area, at the end of October.