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Kandy

	Weather :	Mild Hot
	Distance From Colombo :	120 km
	Major Attractions :	Temple of Tooth, Botanical gardens, Elephant Orphanage, Temples, lake
	Character :	Laid back, sweet and romantic

A place where you want to call home, Kandy offers anunbelievable atmospehere along with its wide variety of attractions. Mild and breezy in weather, Kandy boasts of having worlds perfect weather with daily temparatures that fall around 75 F. Laid back in nature, people in kandy, fondly known as Kandians, can be seen minding their business at slow pace with a friendly grin in their faces.

Rich heritage and georgous lakeside setting has long made Kandy a favorite attraction for Sri Lanka travelers. This bustling hill-country capital is the natural gateway to a lush central region of tea plantations, splashing streams androusing history. Kandy was made a world heritage site in 1988. It lies on a plain surrounded by tall hills, with reminiscent names such as Bible Rock, Camel Hill and Balloon Rock in Kandy. The Sri Lanka Kandy town is easily explored by foot, with the climate a little cooler and less humid than in the capital, Colombo.

Kandy in Pictures

Kandy Perahera

Temple of the Tooth

Kandy Botanical Garden

Elephant Orphanage

Dancers in Kandy

Knuckles mountain range

Victoria golf Course

Kandy Lake

Kandy Attraction

Perahera

Kandy gets colorful and busy during the annual Perahera in Kandy, a fortnightâ€™s festival in late July and August, when the nights areinvigorated by parading dressedelephants, acrobats, drummers,dancers, and lantern carriers. This is one of the finest festivals in Asia and hotel space is limited months in advance.

Elephant carrying sacred tooth

Dancers

getting ready

Temple during Perahera

Temple Servers on Elephants

Kandyan Dancers

Temple of the Tooth

Temple of the Tooth houses Sri Lankas most sacred religious relic, the tooth of the Buddha, hidden beneath six caskets of diminishing size. Temple of the Tooth attracts a steady stream of visitors throughout the year. The national museum lies alongside. The lake itself, built in 1807, forms an attractive centerpiece to the town. The island in the middle was used by the last Kandyan king as his personal harem.

View from the hill

Lake in front of Temple

During Festivals

At Night

Lake and Temple

Peradeniya botanical gardens

Peradeniya botanical gardens, 6km outside the town, and surrounded by the Mahaweli River, are the largest in Sri Lanka Kandy and before colonial times were used as Royal pleasure gardens. Udawattakelle Sanctuary in Sri Lanka Kandy, a forest reserve on the northern outskirts, and the Royal Palace Park are other areas where you can take a relaxing stroll, away from the bustle of the town.

Peradeniya botanical gardens 2

Knuckels Mountain Range

Victoria Golf Club

Golfers should not miss the opportunity to sample Victoria Golf Club, which for its sweeping vistas alone deserves its fast-won reputation as one of the finest courses in Asia.

Elephant orphanage

About an hour from Sri Lanka Kandy, on the Colombo road at Pinnawala, lays the popular elephant orphanage. This center was set up to save abandoned young elephants and trains them to become working animals. The daily feeding and washing rituals offer a popular tourist attraction.

Bathing in the lake

Two young ones palying

Babies Feeding

baby born in captivity

History

Sri Lanka Kandy Historical records suggest that Kandy was first established by the King Wickramabahu (1357-1374 CE) near the Watapuluwa area, north of the present Sri Lanka Kandy city, and named Senkadagalapura at the time, although some scholars suggest the name Katubulu Nuwara may also have been used to Sri Lanka Kandy. The origin of the more popular name for the Sri Lanka Kandy city, Senkadagala, could have been from a number of sources. These include naming after a Brahmin named Senkanda who lived in a cave near the city, after a queen of King Wickramabahu named Senkanda or after a colored stone named Senkadagala. In 1592 Sri Lanka Kandy became the capital city of the last remaining independent kingdom in Sri Lanka Kandy after the coastal regions had been conquered by the Portuguese. Invasions by the Portuguese and the Dutch (16th, 17th and 18th century) and also by the British (most notably in 1803) were repelled. The last ruling dynasty of Kandy was the Nayaks of Sri Lanka Kandy. Sri Lanka Kandy preserved its independence until it finally fell to the British in 1815. The British deposed the king, Sri Vikrama Rajasinha is the last king of Sri Lanka Kandy, and all claimants to the throne, thus ending the last traditional monarchy of Sri Lanka Kandy, and replaced it with their monarchy.

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