The day after Sigiriya it was raining, so we took it easy. Yanmei did some laundry.
In the afternoon it stopped raining, so we decided to go out and look around Kandy. It was about a hour walk to downtown so we were going to take a tuk tuk, but then Yanmei said “let’s take a bus”. The buses seem to come about ever 60 seconds which is great. We hopped on and it was 25 rupees, which works out to about 8 cents each. The bus took us to the central market.
After that we walked to Lake Kandy.
We did some shopping in the downtown area, then walked over to the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, which is the most important Buddhist temple in the area, it has a tooth from Buddha.
We were templed out so we didn’t go in, but there was a procession of girls and women holding a rope and going in as we watched. The above picture is only the entrance gate, not the temple itself.
We headed back for another home cooked Sri Lankan dinner.
David