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Day 10 - Kandy

7th March 2025

Central Province

  

Kandy - Temple of the Tooth

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Days 1 & 2 - London to Dubai Day 3 - Dubai Burj Khalifa & Palm Jumeirah Day 4 - to Sri Lanka - Covanro
Day 5 - Covanro Day 6 - Dambulla & Sigiriya Day 7 - Sigiriya Rock & Elephants
Day 8 - Grithale & Bike Ride Day 9 - Polonnaruwa & Kandy Spice Day 10 - Kandy - Temple of the Tooth
Day 11 - Kandy - Town & Lake Day 12 - Kitulgala Rafting & Nuwara Eliya Day 13 - Nuwara Eliya
Day 14 - Ella Day 15 - Kataragama & Yala NP Day 16 - Udawalawe Elephants & Ahangama
Day 17 - Ahangama Dolphins & Mangroves Day 18 - Galle Day 19 - to Home


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Kandy Temple of the Tooth 1


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Kandy Temple of the Tooth 2

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Kandy Temple of the Tooth 3

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Kandy Temple of the Tooth 4

 



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Kandy Temple of the Tooth 5


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Kandy Temple of the Tooth 7


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Kandy Temple of the Tooth 6

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Kandy Temple of the Tooth 9


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Kandy Temple of the Tooth 10

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Kandy Temple of the Tooth 11

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The historic Queen's Hotel in the centre of Kandy...

Hotel

 

One of the many colourful local buses in Sri Lanka...

Bus 1


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Our bus next to one of the local Leyland buses...
 
Bus 2


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Kandy Botanical Gardens...

Botanical 1

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Helliconia...

Botanical 2


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Canonball Tree...


Botanical 3



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Bee hives in the trees...

Botanical 4

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Hot day, so the flaps are out...

Botanical 5

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Botanical 6

 



Tamarind Tree planted on the day Sri Lanka became independent...

Botanical 6


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Palm lined...
 
Botanical 8


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Big crown...

Botanical 9

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Cook Pine twisting with the prevailing winds...

Botanical 10


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Coco de Mer - the world's largest seed, which also happens to look like a bottom...



Botanical 11

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Kingfisher eyeing an opportunity...

Kingfisher


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Traditional show in Kandy...

Show 1

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Show 2

 



With renovations ongoing, we had the hotel almost to ourselves on the first night...

Dinner
 

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Days 1 & 2 - London to Dubai Day 3 - Dubai Burj Khalifa & Palm Jumeirah Day 4 - to Sri Lanka - Covanro
Day 5 - Covanro Day 6 - Dambulla & Sigiriya Day 7 - Sigiriya Rock & Elephants
Day 8 - Grithale & Bike Ride Day 9 - Polonnaruwa & Kandy Spice Day 10 - Kandy - Temple of the Tooth
Day 11 - Kandy - Town & Lake Day 12 - Kitulgala Rafting & Nuwara Eliya Day 13 - Nuwara Eliya
Day 14 - Ella Day 15 - Kataragama & Yala NP Day 16 - Udawalawe Elephants & Ahangama
Day 17 - Ahangama Dolphins & Mangroves Day 18 - Galle Day 19 - to Home