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Aladeniya

Aladeniya is a village located within Kandy District of Sri Lanka's Central Province.

Aladeniya
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The place

Aladeniya is a village located within Kandy District of Sri Lanka's Central Province. It lies 12 km (7.5 mi) north-west of Kandy on the main road to Kurunegala.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Aladeniya

Airports
Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 77 km · Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 94 km · Jaffna (JAF), 279 km
  • Colombo → Aladeniya
    91 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · Rs1,170–1,560
  • Jaffna → Aladeniya
    267 km · quickest by road, 7h 37m · Rs3,010–4,010
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Aladeniya
    419 km · quickest by air, 8h 4m · ₹14,260–21,800
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Aladeniya

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aladeniya. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe train line goes further to Badulla, passing on its way Nuwara Eliya (Nanu Oya station from where one needs to take a short bus or tuk-tuk ride to Nuwara Eliya proper), Haputale and Ella.
  • Get inIf you are in Negombo you will have to take some bus, taxi or tuk-tuk to some of the cities where the Main Line train goes to Kandy: Ragama, Gampaha or Veyangoda, on the trip you will see the Bible Rock, which resembles the more famous Sigiriya citadel.
  • Get inWhen you arrive, watch out for the tuk-tuk mafia at the railway station.
  • Get inIt is better catch a tuk-tuk some distance from the station, or even better use Uber, PickMe or the like (again, some distance from the railway station tuk-tuk stand, as otherwise the tuk-tuk mafia there will threaten and chase your driver away).
  • Get inWalk or take a tuktuk to the bus terminal, where the friendly locals will direct you to the bus to Kandy, 3½ hr, Rs 150 (as of Jan 2013).

From Wikivoyage: Kandy, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    EllaLK

    7 ways of moving, 30 sources

    74 km
  2. 02
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    442 km
  3. 03
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    444 km
  4. 04
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    478 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    482 km

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