KANDY
Although Kandy is now Sri Lanka’s second-largest city, it retains a surprisingly quaint small-town feel, its modest grid of low-rise streets are lined with characterful mix of both Kandyan and colonial-era buildings and preserve a certain old-fashioned, rustic charm which even the often dense throngs of traffic and pedestrians can’t entirely obscure.
At the west end of the center the serene Kandy Lake offers the city’s scenic and romantic centerpiece. This fine expanse of water is bounded with elegant white balustrades and backed by the buildings of the Temple of the Tooth and the Royal Palace complex – particularly striking when seen from the south, with the neat white buildings framed against the rich green backdrop of the Udawatakelle Sanctuary behind and prettily reflected in the waters of the lake in front.