Landscape & Travel / Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Colonial city KandyCity tour through Kandy, visiting the Tooth Temple, gemstone grindery with sale show. The head of the gemstone grindery has guided the former Federal President Richard von Weizsaecker and his wife in Sri Lanka. Hiking to a gigantic, 40 m high Buddha statue below Kandy Swiss Residence Hotel on the nearby hills with beautiful views. A spiral staircase in the back leads up to the head of snow-white Buddha statue. In the evening we visit a tourist show of the famous Kandy dancers and fire-eaters. Itinerary: Colombo -> Wattala -> Negombo -> Mihintale (walking) -> Anuradhapura -> Sigiriya (climbing up stairs) -> Polonnaruwa -> Dambulla -> Kandy -> Pinnawela (Elephants orphanage) -> Nuwara Eliya -> Horton Plains (hiking) -> Nanu Oya (train tour) -> Bandarawela -> Ella -> Tissamaharama -> Yala Nationalpark (Safari) -> Mirissa -> Kogalla -> Galle -> Colombo |
Keywords: #Colombo Downtown, Watalla, Negombo #SriLanka #Ceylon, Singhalesen |