Kandy is Sri Lanka’s second largest city, located about sixty miles east of the capital and largest city, Colombo. The city is built around a pretty manmade lake (built in 1807) with a beautiful temple and palace complex on its shores. Once we arrived here we were a little wiped out and our time here was fairly relaxed. We enjoyed walking around the lake, and visiting the devales, temples devoted to the four gods (Pattini, Natha, Vishnu, and Kataragama) who protect the city. We also visited the former Royal Palace complex, but skipped the city’s most famous site, the Temple of the Tooth. The temple houses an important Sri Lankan religious relic, a tooth supposedly saved from Buddha’s cremation fire. Though the tooth itself is rarely publicly displayed these days, it is supposedly about three inches long and therefore not likely a human tooth. After Kandy we spent one final night in the town of Negombo, near the airport, before catching our early morning flight to Malaysia.
Click on the photo below for our Kandy photo album.
Click on the photo below for our Kandy photo album.
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