Kandy City Tour by Lux Tours Lanka
Description
Discover the best of Kandy on an unforgettable Tuk Tuk City Tour. Travel through Sri Lanka’s cultural capital with a friendly local guide and experience the city from a unique perspective. Visit iconic attractions including the sacred Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, scenic Kandy Lake, vibrant local markets, beautiful viewpoints, and hidden gems that many visitors miss. Unlike large group tours, a Tuk Tuk allows you to explore narrow streets, local neighborhoods, and panoramic hilltop locations while enjoying a personalized and flexible experience. Along the way, learn about Kandy’s rich history, culture, and traditions from a knowledgeable local. Whether you are a solo traveler, couple, family, or group, this tour offers the perfect combination of sightseeing, culture, photography, and authentic local experiences. Experience Kandy like a local and create memories that will last a lifetime. ✨
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Itinerary
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.
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
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.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(112)
Our tuk tuk driver was excelent. He arranged everything for us and told us everything about places we visited. When he didn't go with us (when we watched dancers) he very kindly looked after our backpacks left in our tuk tuk. The trip was an incredible expirience thanks to our driver. We were very very lucky to have him.
Laxman is a humble, nice, accommodating and a fantastic guide. Laxman proudly shows off his Kandy. Please have your own wishes what you want to see and shop and Laxman will take you.
Laxman is a humble, helpful and an amazing guide. Who proudly shows his Kandy. Come up with your own ideas what you want to see and what you want to shop and Mr. Laxman will fix it for you.
Mr. Luxman showed us around Kandy. He is extremely friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. You can not have a better guide and driver on the trip.
A fantastic caring man who took care of us and showed the best of Kandy. Took us to really good sights. Amazing erect ranges.
We had a wonderful experience in Kandy. The driver was professional, friendly, and always willing to help. The tour was fantastic and allowed us to really enjoy the beauty of the city. Highly recommended!
The driver was very kind and attentive at all times. It was an amazing tour around Kandy, very well organized and enjoyable. I highly recommend it!
The experience with Lux Tours Lanka was phenomenal. Our driver, Laxman, has been very nice to us. He brought us to the tea factory and tea fields and showed us around in the meanwhile, sharing many historical and nature facts about Kandy. He's also a very good photographer. He also took time to stop next to fruit farms to buy some fresh fruit for us to taste. Overall good experience, highly recommended.
We used Chanaa’s services a few times to get around Kandy. He was very helpful and responsive. We highly recommend him!!
We only had 1 night in Kandy and weren’t sure how we’d organise seeing Kandy but Laxman solved that. Took us to all the best spots with such much knowledge of the nature, architecture and temples. Really recommended the tour as he took us to have an amazing back massage too. If we had any questions he answered and he did everything he could to make our only day in Kandy the best it could have been! Such good value for money and a really lovely man and his English was amazing! We will come back!
