The Olde Empire Hotel building, which is located within walking distance from the sacred Buddhist Temple of the Tooth, was established as a coffee factory over 110 years ago has been declared a conserved building in the world heritage city of Kandy by the United Nations. The building was converted to a Hotel in the late 1800s.

කඳුවලින් වටවුණු උස් තැනිතලා ප්‍රදේශයක් එක්ක ආසන්නයේම තියෙන වැවක්. සීතල විඳින්න පුළුවන් පරිසරයක් එක්ක මීදුමෙන් වැසී යන ලස්සන කඳවුරු භූමියක්. ඔව් ඒ තමයි වැවතැන්න කඳවුරු භූමිය. නුවර ඉඳන් පොඩි වෙලාවකින් ළඟාවෙලා දවස ගත කරන්න එහෙමත් නැතිනම් සති අන්තයක ගෙදර පිරිසත් එක්ක එහෙමත් නැත්නම් යහළු යෙහෙළියන් එක්ක කඳවුරු රාත්‍රියක් ගතකරන්න කියාපු තැනක් වැවතැන්න.

We start our journey from Matale & our next destination was Kandy. On that way we went to see “Hakkinda” area. After having some time there we went to Kandy.

We still in Mahiyanganaya & first we went to “Mahiyangana Raja Maha Viharaya”. After that we went to Sora Bora Wewa.

On 26th June I had an office work at Kandy. I took “Podi Menike” train from Fort at 6.00 a.m. As usual it packed with people. Around 8.45 a.m it reached to Kandy.

In April month everybody busy due to Sinhala New Year. We planned to visit our relatives house in Mawanella. We planned to go by train.

This journey was a mob hike which me and my group of friends organized within a day and took off. Our hope was to start the journey from Sarasavigama, then reach the Uragala summit, which is the highest peak of the range and then to hike along the range ( Katusu Konda, Hanthana1, Hanthana 2 and get down to Hanthana Udugama road.)

This is a less known forest reserve within less than 2km from the Kandy City and is the only forest reserve in Sri Lanka maintained by a Municipal Council (MC of Kandy).

Kandy is considered as one of the main and historically important cities in Sri Lanka. In 1371 King Wickramabahu established his kingdom and named this city as `Senkadagala’ in remembrance of the Brahmin called Senkanda’ who lived in a rock cave in Udawattekele forest. Thereafter all the kings who ruled took appropriate measures to conserve `Udawatte-kele: forest and regarded it as a part of the Royal Palace.

Mutukelina Wewa (lake) is situated in Pathahewaheta, Kandy (near Bellwood). It is really an amazing place. It is situated about 17km away (up to the hills) from Kandy city.

Previous day night we went to Sri Dalada Maligawa & we couldn’t worship it. Then next day morning we went Dalada Maligawa. After religious work we went to see elephants in the Maligawa premises that brought for “Dalada Perahera”.Most of them prepared & loaded to lorries to return to their homes.

From Dambulla we came to our relatives place in Kaikawala. We stay 2 days in there. Next day morning we went to Alu Viharaya & Buddha Statue in Seru Gala. After that we went to Ambilla Raja Maha Viharaya.