Excursion
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experience the best while on a holiday with us. Walk into our hotel and enjoy a
refreshing, rejuvenating, day-off with us.
Excursion
Kandy has a lot to offer and our hotel is situated at the perfect spot to start your trip. If walking is your thing, take a few hours to promenade around Kandy Lake. Along the way you will pass Kandy’s most famous attraction, the Temple of the Tooth, the National Museum, located in a part of the former Royal Palace, as well as the Kandyan Art Association & Cultural Centre, where dance and drumming performances are shown daily. Less known but definitely worth a visit is the Garrison Cemetery, which is a short walk uphill behind the National Museum. Listed below, we give you a few more suggestions. If you have any questions or need assistance with planning your tour or transport, our staff will be happy to help you.
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Kingdom
Kandy is the cultural capital in Sri Lanka. It’s set on a plateau surrounded by mountains, which are home to tea plantations and biodiverse rainforest.
The city’s heart is scenic Kandy Lake (Bogambara Lake), which is popular for strolling. Kandy is famed for sacred Buddhist sites, including the Temple of the Tooth (Sri Dalada Maligawa) shrine, celebrated with the grand Esala Perahera annual procession.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya.
are about 5.5 km to the west of the city of Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. It attracts 2 million visitors annually.It is near the Mahaweli River (the longest in Sri Lanka). It is renowned for its collection of orchids. The garden includes more than 4000 species of plants, including orchids, spices, medicinal plants and palm trees. Attached to it is the National Herbarium of Sri Lanka. The total area of the botanical garden is 147 acres
The Cultural Dance.
Kandyan dancing and drumming is Sri Lanka’s iconic performing art, and you’re unlikely to spend long in the city without seeing a troupe of performers, clad in elaborate traditional costumes, with dancers twirling, stamping and gyrating to a pulsating accompaniment of massed drumming.
Kandy Lake
also known as Kiri Muhuda or the Sea of Milk, is an artificial lake in the heart of the hill city of Kandy, Sri Lanka, built in 1807 by King Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe next to the Temple of the Tooth. It is a protected lake, There are many legends and folklore regarding the lake. One such is that the small island at its center was used by the king’s helm for bathing and was connected to the palace by secret tunnel.
The Bahirawakanda Buddha Statue
is located on the top of the Bahirawa Kanda hill. This beautifully sculpted white statue displays Buddha in the seated Nirvana pose and can be seen from the entire city of Kandy that sprawls out before it. It stands at 88 feet in height and is one of the biggest Buddha statues in Sri Lanka.
The Kandy War Cemetery
is a British military cemetery in Kandy, Sri Lanka, for soldiers of the British Empire who were killed during World War II as well as a soldier who died during World War I.There are 203 buried consisting of: 107 British, 35 East Africans, 26 Sri Lankans, 23 Indians, 6 Canadians, 3 Italians, 1 Frenchman and 2 unidentified persons, Of the 203 dead, 151 were army, 32 were air force, 16 were navy, 2 were unidentified, 1 was merchant navy and 1 was from the national fire service.
The National Museum of Kandy,
Sri Lanka is located next to the Temple of the Tooth in part of the former Royal Palace of Kandy. The primary exhibits are housed in the Palle Vahala building, which was the former home of the King’s harem.
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Distance Chart
Point
Kandy Clock Tower
Peradeniya Railway Station
Kandy Colombo Main Road
Peradeniya hospital
Peradeniya Botanical Grden
Distant
5.8 Km
5.4 Km
3.4 Km
3.7 Km
4.3 Km
By Tuk-Tuk
20 min
15 min
10 min
12 min
17 min
Point
Kandy Clock Tower
Peradeniya Railway Station
Kandy Colombo Main Road
Peradeniya hospital
Peradeniya Botanical Grden
Distant
5.8 Km
5.4 Km
3.4 Km
3.7 Km
4.3 Km
By Tuk-Tuk
20 min
15 min
10 min
12 min
17 min
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