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Kandy Slideshow
Kandy
Travel Blogs from Kandy, Sri Lanka
Mediaeval capital Polonnaruwa
... too much for us. We also wanted to reach Kandy not too late. We arrived just before the dark set in. In Kandy we had a very pleasant meal at a rooftop restaurant adjacent to our good hotel. Next morning we walked ten minutes to the Sacred ...
Kandy
500 meters above sea level, Kandy is set amongst the mountains. The main feature of the city is the huge lake in the centre, alongside which is the Temple of The Sacred Tooth Relic - Buddha's Tooth. The venue for the First Test is the ground of a local ...
Kandy : Shops, Temples, Temples, Temples
... some nice seats in reception and sit around chatting before heading to bed. Day 6 : Monday 29th December 2008 Kandy, Sri Lanka Another day another Unesco World Heritage site! After a buffet breakfast (curry for me!) we head for the ...
Colombo to Kandy
Finally we arrive in Sri Lanka and launch ourselves straight into the mayhem. We arrived at the train station where you can step back in time and see how things were done 70 years ago. The ticket office is virtually unchanged since the 1940s and I must ...
Home of the Sacred Tooth
... take our offer to visit our home seriously, before the family wins and you settle down to raise a a family. Day 2 in Kandy Prior research into Sri Lanka had led us to expect long waits for service, particularly breakfast. So far this has not been ...
Kandy Adventure, as much as you can fit in 1 day!!
... was waiting for us, we jumped in the back and sped off, weaving in and out of traffic. Riding in a Tuk Tuk in a country like Sri Lanka can be a bit hair raising, narrowly missing trucks, cars, stray dogs and other Tuk Tuks, you sort of have to just relax ...
Rest...
... to relax and take it as part of the experience. Then we walk back to the hotel past the Temple of the Sacred Tooth, a big Kandy landmark. It is hot and quite busy so we don't venture in but amble back up to the hotel slightly regretting my meanness at ...
Kandy
... meant to represent. The display culminated with fire dancing, fire eating and walking on hot coals. I don't think we really did Kandy itself justice. Normally I'd prefer to wander around somewhere like that to take it all in, but out driver insisted on ...
De Polonnaruwa à Kandy
Ce matin on part vers Kandy en auto avec un chauffeur. En chemin on s'arrête au milieu du Sri Lanka. Il y a un pilier planté en plein milieu de l'île. C'est assez ordinaire comme endroit alors on y passe rapidement. On s'arrête ensuite pour ...
Die heilige Stadt
Kandy ist die dritte heilige Stadt auf Sri Lanka. Polonnaruwa, die zweite Königsstadt, behagte den Singhalesischen Königen nicht sehr. Sie suchten eine Reihe anderer Möglichkeiten (eine Zeitlang auch in Kotte, das jetzt als "Sri Jayewardenepura" ...
Kandy
... and their interest in us. In fact, such kindness and curiosity as this was what we experienced throughout our stay in Sri Lanka. As we didn’t possess a Sri Lankan guidebook, finding our way around was sometimes quite difficult, though eventually, ...
Sri Lanka
Namaste, After a good sleep without cockroaches I went to the busstation for my trip back to Kandy. I have a room in the Lake inn for only 800 rp (including breakfast) with a balcony and a good view on the Temple of the Tooth. The next morning I ...
Kandy, capitale de la région montagneuse
Kandy est la deuxième ville en importance au Sri Lanka après Colombo. La ville est classée au patrimoine mondiale UNESCO. Nous avons visité le temple de la Dent en soirée. À 18h30 avait lieu la troisième cérémonie de la journée. Les moines ...
Something obvious like Sweet Kandy
... were now family as well, so off we went to the family house. Karu's son drove as he hadn't drunk anything- a good thing on Sri Lanka's windy narrow mountain roads with crazy drivers. After we'd been driving for an hour we asked how far it was to the ...
Kandy - Tea Factories
We were able to visit and tour a number of tea factories in Kandy. What a beautiful landscape - so lush and different from along the ...
Kandyland
... nbsp; I finally understand what incense is for. We visited the Temple of the Tooth, the shrine that is home to Sri Lanka's most important relic - a tooth snatched from the Buddha's funeral pyre. We saw the procession of the evening puja, the ...
Lush & beautiful - a real gem!
... to the TSTR, constructed in the 17th and 18th centuries as a temple complex that was part of a royal palace. Housing Sri Lanka’s most important Buddhist relic (the tooth of Buddha), it was originally grabbed out of Buddha’s funeral pyre ...
Post-November Rain
... and all the clothes. Ugh. Today we went to the Pinnewala Elephant Orphanage which is one of the most popular attractions in Sri Lanka. Honestly I'm not sure how to feel about it. It felt a little weird the way the mahouts corral the ...
Road trip through the fog oops i mean Tea Hills
... up my mood. Our driver for the day is half hour late so we set off at 10:30 for a trip through the hills to Kandy via a tea plantation & a few scenic waterfalls , well it should be a good day for waterfalls today as its absolutely chucking it down , ...
Great Railway Journeys
... were hot) but one of the local men was eating a snack of red chillies, and he wasn't even flinching. Arrived at a junction outside Kandy were I was to change trains and fell for a ruse of the tuc tuc drivers. Asking if that was the Kandy train on the ...