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Private Kandy City Tour

Private Kandy City Tour

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Set in Sri Lanka’s highlands, UNESCO-listed Kandy fringes a forest-hemmed lake and is steeped in history. Immerse yourself in the city on a customizable private tour that eliminates transport worries while ensuring you view its highlights as well as some hidden gems easy to overlook independently. Admire the Temple of the Tooth, wander the Botanical Gardens, and discover other beauty spots and cultural insights courtesy of a driver-guide who loves the city and knows it inside out.

Languages: English
📍Bahirawakanda, Kandy, Sri Lanka
🏢Operated by Lux Tours Lanka

Highlights

  • ✓Get under the skin of Kandy on a customizable private tour
  • ✓Dig deeper into this historical city with a driver-guide to show you around
  • ✓Visit the sacred Temple of the Tooth, Kandy Lake, and the Botanical Gardens
  • ✓Relax with private transport, select hotel transfers, and airport pickup

What you'll see & do

  • ✓Free Museum watch Free Meditation facility and experince
  • ✓Climbing on the buddha statue stairs on the inside to reach the view.
  • ✓Udawattakele Forest Reserve, often spelled as Udawatta Kele, is a historic forest reserve on a hill-ridge in the city of Kandy. It is 104 hectares (257 acres) large. During the days of the Kandyan kingdom, Udawattakele was known as “Uda Wasala Watta” in Sinhalese meaning “the garden above the royal palace”. The sanctuary is famous for its extensive avifauna. The reserve also contains a great variety of plant species, especially lianas, shrubs and small trees. There are several giant lianas. Many of small and medium size mammals that inhabit Sri Lanka can be seen here. Several kinds of snakes and other reptiles might be seen. Udawattakele was designated as a forest reserve in 1856, and it became a sanctuary in 1938.
  • ✓Dominating the town is Kandy Lake. A leisurely stroll around it, with a few stops on the lakeside seats, is a pleasant way to spend a few hours, although diesel-spurting buses careening around the southern edge of the lake can mar the peace somewhat. The nicest part to walk along is the area around the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic.
  • ✓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.
  • ✓Entrance free for the museum and factory facilities
  • ✓Free to watch and learn how to or DIY
  • ✓Free entrance
  • ✓Entrance free
  • ✓Batik Factory Experience the vibrant art of batik printing — a centuries-old technique using wax and dyes on fabric. Visitors can see each step of the process and browse colorful, hand-crafted designs to take home.
  • ✓Lanka Silk Factory Learn how luxurious silk is woven and dyed by expert hands. Watch the fascinating process from cocoon to fabric and shop for authentic silk clothing and accessories.
  • ✓Capture the best views of Kandy City, surrounded by lush hills and the scenic lake below. A great stop for photos, especially at sunset when the city glows in golden light.
  • ✓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.
  • ✓Watch and enjoy the Kandian cultural dancing vibes Require and entrance fee of 7 USD per person.

What's included

  • ✓Private transportation

Good to know

Public transportation options are available nearby

Specialized infant seats are available

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

You can call our number to communicate your pickup location/ WhatsApp your google pickup location within the kandy city limits to identify the distnace and arrival time for us. With all the reepact, any pickup location with the 5km radius, our pickup reach time may impact with a reasonable delay.

Cancellation policy

  • •A full refund will apply if you cancel more than 24 hours before the activity start time.
  • •No refund is possible if you cancel less than 24 hours before the activity start time.
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