Best Places To Visit In Kandy Sri Lanka

Amazing Places to Visit in Kandy

Kandy is one of the most valuable heritage cities to visit in Sri Lanka. The Kandy city cover with beautiful green hills. There you can see a lot of beautiful places. Here you can see the most beautiful and important places that you must visit when you travel to Kandy Sri Lanka.

Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic

The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, also known as Sri Dalada Maligawa, is a beautiful golden-roofed Buddhist Temple in the heart of Kandy Sri Lanka.

A tooth of Buddha brought to the island in the 4th century. The temple was built between 1867 and 1707 specifically to honour this sacred relic.

Buddha’s tooth relic lives here and is considered the most important in Sri Lanka. Since ancient times, the relic has played an important role in Sri Lanka politics because it is believed that whoever holds the relic holds the governance of the country.

The Temple has long since been a place of importance for both Sri Lankan and international visitors.

Pilgrims gather every day to the temple to pray and bring offerings of flowers and it’s a beautiful sight to behold. Lotus and jasmine flowers are placed in tribute to the relic.

Walk In Kandy Royal Botanical Garden

The Royal Botanical Garden of Kandy, the largest in Sri Lanka. It is situated a 10-minute drive from Kandy city center.

This will your favorite places to visit in Kandy as it’s just so pretty to walk around the different flora and faunas.

During British rule time, the British imported plants from London’s famous Kew Garden and formally established the botanical gardens in 1843.

The garden is famous for its countless (4000+) species of plants and trees.

Walk Around Kandy Lake

Stroll around the peaceful Kandy Lake, in late evening or early morning, you’ll be surprised at just how peaceful this area of Kandy. You can see in the middle of the lake is a tiny island with a few palm trees, recognized as one of the most iconic areas of the Kandy city.

The lake is artificial and was created in 1807 by Sri Wickrama Rajasinha, the last ruler of the kingdom of Kandy, considered the heart and soul of the city because of its central location and undeniable beauty.

If you can stroll around Kandy Lake, You can spend really pleasant time and it will be best idea to visit some of wildlife spotted in Kandy Lake.

There are some benches under the trees around Kandy Lake that you can sit and see in the surroundings. You can see huge monitor lizards in the lake’s bank, some turtles, Birds. Also the lake is relatively clean and clear, you can see lone of fish and deed them.

British Garrison Cemetery

The Kandy War Cemetery is Located just a ten minutes from the Kandy City. This military cemetery is the resting place for soldiers of the British Empire who sacrificed their lives during the war.

Most of soldiers of the British Empire who were died during World War 2 and World War 1.

You can see 203 of them are buried here, including 107 British, 35 East Africans, 26 Sri Lankan soldiers and 23 Indians Their positions varied from army, air force, to navy.

Bhahirawakanda Buddha Statue

The Bahirawakanda Buddha Statue is located on the top of the Bahirawa Kanda hill about 10 minutes away from Kandy City. Buddha Statue built in 1992, it’s over 88 feet high and one of the giant Buddha statue in Sri Lanka.

Ceylon Tea Museum

Ceylon Tea Museum located in the Hantana Mountain, which is one of the first successful areas to cultivate the tea. The Tea museum originally build in 1925 and 3 Km away from Kandy that you can drive within 10 minutes from Kandy.

Kandy Viewpoint

If you want to capture beautiful photograph of Kandy city, view point is one of the best places to take memorable photo with panoramic view.