Castle Hill Kandy

... trip to Colombo up the coast road is about 6 hours at that time of day.  Then it was off to Kandy which is the capital of the hill country situated about 3 hours North East of Colombo.    Bancharada Bahawani  We headed down into the ...

... korean, american & english guy & we tend to hang out at The Pub (very original name!) in the evenings. Everything in Kandy closes really early though - restaurants shut at 20.00!! So not a great deal to do in the evenings. Yesterday I headed to the ...

Spent the day sightseeing in and around Kandy. Went Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage where there were 70+ elephants of all ages. Got to see them playing in the river. Visited Peradeniya Botanical Garden with colorful trees, bats hanging from trees and a ...

... India to Sri Lanka. After the tea towns of Ella, Haputale and Nuwara Eliya, we concluded our hill country trip with the city of Kandy.  Within and around Kandy we saw an incredible elephant orphanage, important Buddhist temples and the reminisce ...

... to forget our trip up Adam's Peak (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 ...