Manor House Kandy
Kurunegala Road, Nugawela Kandy, Sri Lanka
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Sugarfree Kandy
We 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 center of the country. However, the place has received more attention than it deserves and has gotten congested to the point of gridlock at certain times of the day, and the infrastructure set up by the government has not ...
Orphaned elephants, toy shops and Buddhist Temples
... them do this, then wandered up to the orphanage itself to feed a youngster with milk and meet a very old, blind elephant who is reportedly 73 years old. He was a magnificent beast, with tusks almost a meter long. There was also an elephant with only 3 legs, the fourth having been blown partly off by a land mine during the civil war. Poor thing could still walk but with much effort which caused her to be bent over like a crippled ...
Golden Temple at Dambulla and Kandy
... and the largest in Sri Lanka. Some of the trees have been planted by European Royalty and famous people including a Peepal Tree by Edward VII, a Ceylon Iron weed by the Tsar of Russia in 1891 and a Cannonball tree by the King George V and Queen Mary in 1901. Indira Gandhi and Yuri Gagarin also planted trees here. I loved the line of drunken pines and the huge Javan fig tree. Fruit Bats live in some of the bigger trees screeching like birds and hanging upside ...
Kandy
... with no seat. We sat up camp in the buffet cart instead. Dom made a Sri Lankan friend who got us tea and chilli peanuts. The scenery was awesome and everyone was hanging out the windows and screaming when we went through tunnels. The toilet was absolutely brilliant and was literally just a hole in the bottom of the train! I will be sure to look where I’m walking next time I walk along the train line lol…..
We only spent 2 nights in ...
Kandy
... close to the elephants so we went there instead, the only disadvantage was that they didn't have any baby elephants. The place was called the Millennium Elephant Foundation and they rescue mistreated elephants and also provide a mobile veterinary service.
First thing we did was to help the mahout (the elephant trainer) give the elephant a bath in the river, he was called Mahudge. We scrubbed his skin with coconut husks and rinsed him off with the water, it was ...



