Land Tour days three and four
Wildfox
Anthony Swanston
Wed 15 Feb 2017 01:52
We leave
first thing to visit the Golden Temple.
Not easy when Dayal goes to the wrong car park and we have to walk
endlessly even circumnavigating a locked gate.
A nice temple with 150 Buddha images but not a patch on the one in
Myanmar with 5,000 Buddhas. The road to
Kandy should be easy. A straight road
but Dayal manages to turn off and get lost.
My Ipad gets us out of trouble again and finds the hotel when we get to
Kandy. Dayal hasn’t a clue where it is.
In the evening I go to a cultural show.
Good for the price.
Next morning
off to the Royal Botanical Gardens. Well
laid out, easy to find your way around and beautifully maintained. Best for me however were the Flying Fox
Bats. On leaving Dayal tells me to cross
the road from the main gate. He then
decide it would be easier to meet me on the same side as the gate. Problem is he does not tell me this…
Next to the
Temple of the Tooth. There is one of
Buddha’s teeth in there. Very sacred and
the elephant which carried the tooth is preserved. I get rid of Dayal and go
shopping. Kandy is quite a frantic little city
but fun.
