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Village in Central Province, Sri Lanka

Bokkawala

Bokkawala (බොක්කාවල) is a village in Sri Lanka.

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Bokkawala (බොක්කාවල) is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province in Kandy district.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bokkawala

Airports
Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 77 km · Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 96 km · Jaffna (JAF), 273 km
  • Colombo → Bokkawala
    93 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · Rs1,200–1,600
  • Jaffna → Bokkawala
    260 km · quickest by road, 7h 33m · Rs2,960–3,940
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Bokkawala
    415 km · quickest by air, 8h 4m · ₹14,260–21,750
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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 Bokkawala

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 Bokkawala. 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

    79 km
  2. 02
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    437 km
  3. 03
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    439 km
  4. 04
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    473 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    477 km

If you know how people move in Bokkawala – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bokkawala