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Kandy Slideshow
Kandy
Travel Blogs from Kandy, Sri Lanka
Mandy in Kandy
Kandy is cool It's lucky that I like Kandy, since I have now spent 12 nights here altogether! Kandy is a large town in the hill country of Sri Lanka, so it's a bit cooler than the coast. It's become my home town in Sri Lanka since it has all the ...
The Hill Capital of Sri Lanka
... place! Only stayed there the night so I could see Anna, BJ & Ross before they flew out to Vietnam (they'd just spent 1wk in Sri Lanka & I wanted to get some tips, advice & their guide book off them!) Anyway, we went & treated ourselves to a Pizza Hut ...
Ancient cities, elephants & sneaking into temples
Ancient Cities With only a limited time in sri lanka we decided to get moving ASAP so after a huge breakfast of curries, bread and tea (of course) that came to about $1.50 we were off to see some temples. Being cheap we decided to ...
From the Beach to the Hills via a Brothel
... through the ages to Portuguese rule between 12th and 14th centuries then right up until the recent British occupancy until 1948 when Sri Lanka finally received its independence. It has also up until very recently had a lot of trouble with violent civil ...
Return to luxury...
... cold showers, a non-working fan and toothless proprietors intent on wringing every rupee out of our combined wallets, our arrival in Kandy was a first. Due to the upcoming Esala Perahera festival (runs for 10 days up until the 28th), it seemed wise to ...
Rock Climbs
... have come down on power-lines, clay houses have collapsed and houses are cleaning up from the inundation. On the way to Kandy, we stopped at Dambulla - a Buddhist rock temple. It involved a short climb to some rather beautiful statues ...
The Cultural Show in Kandy
... key. I found out afterwards its all a big scam, there are lots of 'teachers' like that around the lake. I got to the Air Lanka office and changed my departure date from the 25th to the 27th of Feb. while I was down there I also changed my Singapore ...
Horton Plains, and the move to Kandy
... goes in every direction! There was some amazing scenery along the way (see vid) so I didn't mind the bumpy ride. We pulled into Kandy station at 5pm, everyone said it would only take 3 hours but it obviously took longer! The old man went off and I got a ...
Eye Kandy
... of a large tea-growing region, Kandy attracts many tourists. Westerners, eager to learn of about the Buddhist history of Sri Lanka, make Kandy, and especially the Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Tooth), an itinerary must. Locals view Kandy as a necessary ...
What is Portugal abroad?
... fazem estes senhores. Se é eficaz, para o negócio, não sei. Mas para chamar a atenção, claramente. Hoje é dia de Kandy. A turma do hotel partilhou uma série de experiencias de viagem ao som de umas garrafas de Arrack e cerveja Lion. No meio ...
Toothless wonder
... time to enjoy the hill-country and beaches of the South (both apparently musts). So far, we're finding Sri Lanka a little easier to negotiate than India (particularly Northern India). The differences are sometimes subtle but there ...
People
... being turned away from a number of places turn to their terrible reputation as womanisers and partiers, they finally disembarked at Sri Lanka, which was inhabited only by forest ghosts (I am thinking the Veddhas). The prince conquered them, and took a ...
And Back Again
Back to Kandy, no less diesel fumes, but siginificantly less rain, so we enjoyed it a little more. Also found The Pub, and had more beers than was good for us with Rudi. Went to the embassy, paid for visas, but had to wait until the evening to collect ...
The Cultural Triangle
... vulture spot; more extensive than Sigiriya, equally expensive and in my opinion less instanlly impressive. It's a former Medieval capital of Sri Lanka, there's a whole small city sized area full of remains of temples etc... great if your into that sort ...
Kandy
... rict ze jsme si pochutnali. Jinaqk ale nas Kendy nejak moc neupoutala. English - So on we go by train again to Kandy. Kandy is the second city of Sri Lanka although it didn't seem that big to us. We liked it here and stayed for 3 days. Kandy is set ...
I like Kandy. I like Kandy
... that require horn usage not unlike a drum and base baseline. We hopped off in Colombo and were shortly on the train bound for Kandy. Kandy was the capital of the last Sinhalese Kingdom and fell to the English in 1815. Set at 500m above sea level it ...
Going in circles
Sri Lanka is not the same since Simon left, so we are forgoing another loop of another little hill top tea plantation town and going to India early. We have come back to Kandy to collect our visas from the the visa application centre. We put our ...
Kandy
... tree indeed. After that I visited some more temples, amongst which the huge Ruvanvelisaya Dagoba (stupa), the Thuparama Dagoba (oldest in Sri Lanka, probably in the world) and the Twin Ponds were the most impressive. The next day I rented a bicycle ...
Rain and Diesel
... . We travelled on the train from Colombo to Kandy, which is a busy route anyway, on full moon day, which is a big day in Sri Lanka, and lots of people travel to see their families. Which meant we stood for three and a hlaf hours, sometimes on only one ...
A day of chilling in Kandy (at last!)
... show someone else around the place, and pass on a few tips about places to see and people to stay away from. I really like Kandy, it a nice place (I think I told you that already). I would defiantly come back here again. I just lounged around most of the ...
Elephants & Flim Flams
... – there are very few restaurants in Kandy. IN the evening, we go to the Arts Association building to watch some traditional Kandy drumming and dancing. It was rather touristy (packed with package tourists), but was a cheap way to spend an hour. Head ...
The weekend away!
... there was no rain this time which was good. Then headed to Kandy and stopped to have lunch at the lake- my favorite place in Sri Lanka. It is cool and beautiful scenery. If I earn enough I am buying one of the houses on the hill overlooking the lake when ...
Visa better be ready
... i've ever had, notwithstanding it was 3 hours late and took 7 hours to travel 120kms (i.e. it was slow). We returned to Kandy praying the embassy had done it's job. Well they hadn't and we weren't the only whities annoyed - came back Monday was ...
Sri Lanka Travels
Our Sri Lanka visit served two purposes. We visited the only MCC couple working in Sri Lanka and saw their tsunami rebuilding projects. We also enjoyed several days of rest and relaxationb around Kandy, located in the central part of the ...
Ca y est je suis au Srilanka...
... 45 mn de vol me voila atterri a l'aeroport a 1h30 de Colombo. Decide d'eviter Colombo et prends un bus local pour aller a Kandy, pour 60 centimes 115km, dans les montagnes au centre du Srilanka... Apres un premier accident au bout de 20m ,il a embouti un ...