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Kandy Slideshow
Kandy
Travel Blogs from Kandy, Sri Lanka
The Wedding
The only thing planned for today was attending a wedding of a good friends daughter. It was really cool to watch the whole ceremony take place and to meet some more locals, even more entertaining was the drive back to our guesthouse by Uncle Lal, the ...
Viisumi sekoilua
... olemassakaan. Jos ne ovat, sama kai niita on kayttaa) ja oleskelemalla taalla kirjastossa. Kalle perehtyi taalla Sri Lankan historiaan ja kertoi myohemmin minulle monenlaista tarinaa. Asken luettiin taas sanomalehtia. Mieleen jai erityisesti artikkeli, ...
A new country for a (dry!) new year
A ridiculously short flight of 45 minutes takes us from the south of India to Sri Lanka's international airport. Still feeling the Christmas spirit and thus that we deserve a treat we hire a car to drive us the 3 hours to Kandy. The contrast ...
Sweet Sweet Kandy
... and really lifted my spirits. The scenery was beautiful and it got better the higher we went. Three hours later we arrived in Kandy. Kandy is Sri Lanka's second city and it is set high in the interior. It is a beautiful place with a lake set in the middle ...
Trains and Mistaken Planes
... evening, we sat and watched the giant fruit bats in the storm feeling very relaxed, enjoying a drink on our last full night in Sri Lanka. Total 28 quid 9/1/11 Woke around 9am and had a lovely breakfast of egg, toast, jam and a fruit plate. After ...
We're in Sri Lanka!!
... to check before you sit down! Back in Kandy now, exhausted and trying to decide whether to go and watch the traditional Kandy dance tonight or whether we will fall asleep after such a busy day! Moving on to Dalhousie tomorrow for some trekking, will ...
Sugarfree Kandy
... checked into a little hotel at the very top of the hill above the town of Kandy on the south side of town. Kandy is a famous place in Sri Lanka, known for its Buddhist temples and its overall beauty, as it is tucked up in the jungle-clad mountains in the ...
Eye Kandy
... , Mary, Jesus, Shiva and friends... I'm still looking for Mohammed and Haile Selassie though.... Come on Rastas, get with the Schedule. Sri Lanka is proving to be a whole new world of tack (sorry Sri Lanka, but I didn't do it) not withstanding ...
Kirjastossa
... ruohon juuritason ajattelustaan. Ennen kaikkea tuuleteltiin sita, kuinka lantista maailmaa koetellut suuri talouslama ei juuri ole koskettanut Sri Lankaa ja, kuinka kehitys menee huimaa vauhtia eteen pain. Kirjaston seta tuli sanomaan, etta he sulkevat ...
Kandy...Even If I Don't Like Sweets
I'm back on the solo traveler trail in Sri Lanka & am enjoying myself. In Negombo, I woke up, packed my bag & walked the ~2.5 km to the bus station. I use the term "station" rather loosely as it's only a big dusty lot full of ...
5000 steps
... a typical English village style church in the centre of town, right next door to the most famous Hindu Temple in Sri Lanka. I stayed in a friendly guest house overlooking the lake and made plans with an American photographer to visit a religious mountain ...
In Kandy
... Kandy to crash for a couple of days. Kandy is in "the hills" here so it's actually cooler than what I expected from Sri Lanka. The Indian consulate was closed today on account of some holiday I can't pronounce, so I wandered down into town to ...
Kandy
... - check out the cheap DVDs. Tim did what he most wanted to do - buy internet access for the remainder of our time in Sri Lanka. He has bought a 'dongle' which means we are now the envy of the other guest house guests and we are able to check ...
Waddy Waddy
... A quick coffee and catch up and we were off to the Asgiriya Stadium for the eagerly anticipated first instalment of England v Sri Lanka. After grabbing our tickets we were confronted with a mammoth queue to enter into the seated section. Reluctant to ...
A day in Kandy
... waiting for loading here, huge cranes to do the work. It is foggy this morning and humid at 7A.M. The drive to Kandy was about 3 hours, not because of distance but because of winding roads and masses of people. We drove through many small towns with ...
Train of thought
... or telling small childern to copy what I have writen on a blackboard, so a lot of miming and drawing crap maps of Sri Lanka later ( me ) and him talking to me loudly in sinhalese and pointing I worked out that we needed platfrom one enter our ...
back in Kandy
I'll try to post an update soon... in the meantime I've managed to get some photos online, check my flickr page to see the photos and some writeups http://www.flickr.com/photos/hornuts From there click on the "September 2007 set". I'll try to ...
Cool Kandy
... a performance highlighting Kandian folk dress and dancing. A very tranquil stopover after a hectic few first days in Sri Lanka. P.S. - I stayed at the Nature Walk Resort and can highly recommend it - nice owner, super-friendly staff, ...
Tread Carefully Children
... sunrise with some lovely Aussies at Lipsnot Eats (that's another story) but the rest of the day descended into a compendium of why Sri Lanka is indeed not paradise, and ended in one of the most singularly disgusting towns I have ever had the misfortune of ...
Elephants!
... ; Good! Okay, so after a few days in Colombo, the Gomes family arranged a day-trip for us from Colombo-Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage-Kandy-Colombo. It was a jam-packed day. We left Colombo around 6AM and didn't return until about 7PM. The ...
The kindness of Canadians
... and saucers. I love being in a place where they know how to make tea. We are, after all, in tea country now, Sri Lanka’s "hill country." We followed back alleys off the main downtown streets to check out the commerce there and found a busy ...
Kandy
... 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. ...
Royal Botanic Gardens
... to the Botanic Gardens, I stop at a local café for a coffee. This when I realised that every coffee I’d had in Sri Lanka was not filtered properly. It was full of coffee grains so you can’t really finish it otherwise you’d be literally ...
Feb 25, 2012
Walking around town
... temple but unfortunately I was not dress well enough to get in :-(. In the late afternoon I went to see a show - It was traditional Sri Lankan dancing. It was pretty good actually and at the end, 2 fellows walked on burning coal!! Pretty crazy! It was a ...
Time for a bit of Kandy
... off. He kept walking back and forth laughing at me, which did irritate me at first but I then chose to ignore him! I am loving Sri Lanka but the bus guys are just annoying; they are constantly trying to get every penny they can get out of you!! ...
Kandy
... want to do after that. PT: Kandy e a antiga capital das terras altas e actualmente a 2a cidade do Sri Lanka. Para muitos Kandy e o verdadeiro centro do Sri Lanka, onde os ultimos reis, protegidos pelas montanhas e densa floresta tropical, resistiram ...
Watch your feet...above your head
... vidros, com uma girafa às cavalitas? Para meninos! Os dedos dos pés passam a dispor-se em leque e há toda uma camada hoovercraftiana que conferem aos pés uma semelhança com as traineiras no Tejo. Não é só no Sri Lanka. Na India também. Pelo ...
Spoiled me!
... would on midrange in India....big difference! We then drove to Pinewala to Kandy and I'm spending the night here. Kandy is part of Sri Lanka's Hill Country. The views are breathtaking. Between mountains, fog, palm trees, rice paddies, waterfalls .... ...