What You Will Do
Experience Kandy, Sri Lanka's historic hill capital, on a full-day, privately guided excursion from Your Hotel. Discover the enormous palm trees, orchids, and exotic plants at the Peradeniya Royal Botanical Gardens. Spend the day in the picturesque, UNESCO-listed Kandy, seeing the gold-roofed, UNESCO-listed Temple of the Tooth, Kandy market, and a cultural performance following some free time for lunch (at your expense). On your way back to Hotel, stop for dinner (at your own).
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Itinerary
1
Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic
1 hour
The golden-roofed Temple of the Sacred Tooth houses Sri Lanka’s most important Buddhist relic – a tooth of the Buddha. During puja(offerings or prayers), the heavily guarded room housing the tooth is open to devotees and tourists. However, you don’t actually see the tooth. It’s kept in a gold casket shaped like a dagoba (stupa), which contains a series of six dagoba caskets of diminishing size. As well as the revered main temple, the complex includes a series of smaller temples, shrines and museums.
2
Royal Botanical Gardens
2 hours
Royal Botanical Gardens These stunning gardens were once reserved exclusively for Kandyan royalty. Today, even commoners are allowed in to enjoy the most impressive and largest (60 hectares) botanic gardens in Sri Lanka. Highlights include a fine collection of orchids, a stately avenue of royal palms, the extraordinary, aptly named cannonball fruit tree and 40m-high Burma bamboo. Another big hit is the giant Javan fig tree on the great lawn, with its colossal Central trunk and umbrella-like canopy of branches. Peradeniya is 6km from central Kandy.
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