TOUR HIGHLIGHTS: LIVE GEM MINE, GEM STREET MARKET, GEM LAPIDARY, GEM SHOP, BOPATH FALLS, RUBBER PLANTATIONS Leave around 07.30 a.m. from the hotel premises to Ratnapura (City of Gems) and retuen to the same hotel by evening. Visit a live gem mine en–route. Experience the process of a local Gem Mine. Visit the Local Gem Street Market at Ratnapura or Eheliyagoda. Experience of selling and buying jems at the market by local gem vendors. Visit a Gem Lapidary to experience the procedure of Gem Cutting and Polishing. Visit a Gem Factory and Shop, If interested you can buy genuine gems with the Gem & Jewlery Certification. Visit the Bopath Falls at Kuruwita on the way back. It has a shape very similar to the leaf of the sacred fig or "Bo" tree, which has earned it this name. Local myths say that it is haunted and that it hides a treasure trove. Visit a Rubber Plantation en-route. Ratnapura is a traditional rubber growing district in Sri Lanka. Return to the same hotel by evening.