Kandy, Sri Lanka Travel Blogs

Final comments and travel tips on Sri Lanka
Jan 10, 2007

... English is spoken by nearly everyone who deals with the public. Most signs are written in English, Sinhala, and Tamil. Sri Lanka has some great accommodations at all price levels. There are swank boutique hotels with rooms for hundreds of dollars ...

Sweet time in Kandy
Jan 6, 2007 (2 photos)

... , beautiful temples, and amazing dance performances we took in during our time here. We are coming back to Kandy to spend our final night in Sri Lanka after we spend a few days visiting the ancient sites to the north. She Said: The driving here is ...

Randy Kandy
Jan 8, 2004 (5 photos)

... -packed nights in Kitulgala, our rucsacs were packed yet again for the two hour drive to the centre-most point on the island, Kandy, Sri Lanka's 2nd city. On the way we would be stopping for a couple of hours at, arguably, the most visited tourist-trap in ...

Kid in a Kandy shop
Dec 11, 2003 (20 photos)

... an All Access pass at a baseball 'All-Star' game (providing you like baseball, of course). Absolutely fantastic. Wednesday December 10th Sri Lanka vs England, Second Test, Day One Got to the ground in plenty of time to get a ticket. I decided that ...

Negombo and Kandy
Nov 15, 2003 (3 photos)

... curries, saw an enormous monitor lizard in the lake and met lots of interesting people. Overall, we're really impressed with Sri Lanka so far - it's a really beautiful, easygoing place and not really touristy compared to other places in Asia. The scenery, ...

not so sweet Kandy
May 12, 2006

... as we were told we had him at our service till 5pm. He says he will drop us where ever we want, cheers for that! Kandy is not the vibrant city we expected it to be, probably because of this Buddhist festival which is now in full swing and most things ...

In the jungle, the Kandy jungle
Dec 15, 2003 (5 photos)

(following on the title) there's Lion beer tonight (a win away)! Friday December 12th Sri Lanka vs England, Second Test, Day 3 Much of the same today (ie sitting in the sun, drinking beer and singing). The Asgiriya Cricket Stadium in Kandy is ...

Kandy
Oct 5, 2008 (15 photos)

... a local bus, for one tenth of the price we paid for the taxi, bound for Kandy.   My first impressions of local transport in Sri Lanka were similar to Central America, cramped and crowded. Leg room was non-existent, especially with my ...

Kandy in the heart of Sri Lanka
Mar 18, 2006 (8 photos)

... train station we purchased our tickets to Kandy, we had decided the night before that if we went straight to the beach here in Sri Lanka, that was pure laziness..!! As we just spent over a week doing nothing in Palolem, so we talked about it and decided ...

Monsters in the Lake!!!
Jun 4, 2007 (80 photos)

... ...only to be confronted with a monster...well sort of!!! I didn't think you could get these things outside Indonesia, but in Lanka there have big f##k off monitor lizards. I thought I had come across a croc at first...these things are huge...like ...

Sunrise on Adam's Peak
Apr 5, 2009 (16 photos)

... who showed me around the clubs.  He was a new guy in town too and was trying to get a business going in Sri Lanka.  I was convinced that Pakistan was my next destination until I read the news about the Taliban taking over there....  Oh ...

Buddha's Tooth and an Elephant Orphanage
Mar 20, 2009 (22 photos)

... less than 10 minuets later the baby shit itself again.... I took this as my cue to leave!      Kandy is Sri Lanka's second biggest city and it's famous for the Temple of the Sacred Tooth of Buddha . According to Sri Lankan legends, ...

Kandy and the Hill Country
Mar 28, 2008 (20 photos)

... Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic - Kandy  On Friday afternoon, we went to the temple of the tooth which is Sri Lanka's most important Buddhist relic, housing a tooth of the Buddha.  The tooth is said to have been snatched from the ...

Barmy Army Descends
Nov 30, 2007 (26 photos)

Another beautifully sunny day in Kandy encouraged me to arise early and visit Sri Lanka's most important Buddhist shrine, the Temple of the Tooth (or Dalada Maligawa), posed artistically against the steep wooded hills of the Udawatakelle Sanctuary. Before ...

Kandyman
Nov 29, 2007 (10 photos)

... of Kandy's large artificial lake to view the nightly show of Kandyan dancing and drumming.  This is Sri Lanka's iconic performing art, featuring carefully choreographed displays accompanied by pulsating barrages of massed drumming, with acrobatic ...

The Hill Country
Mar 6, 2007 (13 photos)

... is kept. Story goes that it was taken from the funeral pyre in 543BC, since then it has been smuggled, stolen, and hidden all throughout Sri Lanka and India. Now they keep it in this temple. You can't actually see it, so some think it is more of a myth. ...

Kandy
Nov 27, 2005 (3 photos)

Sri Lanka, Kandy (suuruselt teine linn Colombo järel) ehk tagasi linnas pärast viit (või kuut, kes seda enam teab) päeva varemeid ja metsa ja romantilist ööd kuuvalgel konnakontserdi saatel. Sri Lanka peaks olema Eestist 1,5 korda suurem ja 19,.. miljonit ...

Mr Sunil - Best Tuk Tuk driver ever
Oct 25, 2009

We started the day nice and early by heading down to the Millennium Elephant Park We were driven down by a tuk tuk driver who was to become a good friend, Mr Sunil. We had a quick break on our way back down the hill and were offered a king coconut each by ...

Going in-land with a van
Jan 15, 2008 (263 photos)

... ;for myself, so I felt.  A big white woman in a big white van with a small black driver is noticed everywhere in Sri Lanka.  I was getting tired of the unwanted attention, and the feelings it brought up in me.  On our first day out ...

Pinnawela, Sigiriya and Temple of the Tooth
Feb 23, 2006 (15 photos)

... 's tooth was rescued and is now housed in the Temple in Kandy. As a result it is one of the most important temples in Sri Lanka. It was incredibly crowded with Sri Lankans going to make offerings. The temple itself was very noisy and not how i was ...

elephants!!!!!!!!oh yeah, we're in sri lanka
Jul 21, 2005

... one! hopefully pictures soon (forgot the camera cable - oops). ours was called pooja and was the 1st elephant born in captivity in sri lanka! there was 1 elephant with only 3 legs coz one was blown off by a landmine! felt really sad for it! another male ...

The Hill Country
Apr 11, 2007 (2 photos)

... (5000 steps to climb in the rain would not have been good) and we moved onto Kandy the 2nd largest city in Sri Lanka. Kandy was crazy, it was like Oxford street the day before Christmas. Everyone was buying presents and it was danterous on the streets. ...

First Day at the Test
Dec 1, 2007 (21 photos)

... stereotypical 'salt-of-the-earth' football fans all mixing happily together. Despite losing the toss, England subsequently tore into the Sri Lankan batsmen, reducing them to 86-5 at lunch, and 188 all out midway through the final (third) session.  ...

Inland (Hill country) Sri Lankar
Nov 24, 2006 (37 photos)

... week we basically tea-town hopped, visiting various cities that revolve around the tea industry.  The tea industry was brought to Sri Lanka after the British took Sri Lanka as its colony in 1818.  Coffee was originally the main crop (tea and ...

Elephants and other animals
Jan 16, 2008 (100 photos)

I'll let the photos speak for themselves.

Kandy full of Tuskers
Oct 24, 2009

... to a Swedish Viking, Magnus Norden, come on how cool does that sound.  He was heading to the South Coast of Sri Lanka to work as a surf instructor at some accomodation down there after just finishing up some study in Aus. The flight was pretty ...

Roaming Elephants
Jul 10, 2006 (4 photos)

I went to a place called Paradise, its also known as Sri Lanka. We flew over from Chennai to Colombo and then went to a city called Kandy. No, the houses were not made out of candy... I was pretty disapointed! So the attraction was the Elephant Orphanage. ...

Kandy
Dec 26, 2005

... I realized that if we didn't go easy, the rest of the holiday would be a mess. So we spent the day in Kandy - someone recommended a place called Hotel Suisse for lunch (near Kandy lake), which is a lovely colonial hotel on a hilltop with great views. ...

No Sweet Ending For England in Kandy
Dec 5, 2007 (15 photos)

The morning session of the fourth day was crucial to the outcome of the Test, and Sri Lanka won it comfortably.  At lunch, Sri Lanka were 292-3 and the day did not get any better for England fans with Kumar Sangakkara's majestic 152 guiding them to ...

Friday the 13th
Oct 13, 2006

I am back in Kandy today as some of the newer volunteers wanted to see the Temple of the Tooth, I am in the internet café where I have had some success in finally loading some photos, They are added to some of the older entries (hopefully matching the ...