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Village in Central Province, Sri Lanka

Bulumulla

Bulumulla is a village in Sri Lanka.

The place

Bulumulla is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bulumulla

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya

    Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya are about 5.5 km to the west of the city of Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. In 2016, the garden was visited by 1.2 million locals and 400,000 foreign visitors.

    3.2 km · botanical garden in Sri Lanka · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    University of Peradeniya

    The University of Peradeniya is a public university in Sri Lanka, funded by the University Grants Commission. It is the largest university in Sri Lanka, which was originally established as the University of Ceylon in 1942.

    3.6 km · state university in Kandy, Sri Lanka · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Gadaladeniya Vihara

    Gadaladenyia Vihara is an ancient Buddhist temple situated in Pilimathalawa, Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is located on Gadaladenyia Road, just up from the Gadaladeniya junction of the Colombo - Kandy Road, approximately 12.5 km to the west of Kandy and 3 km from the ancient buddhist temple, Lankatilaka Vihara.

    1.6 km · ancient Buddhist temple in Pilimathalawa, Sri Lanka · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Lankatilaka Vihara

    Lankatilaka Vihara is a Buddhist temple with integrated Hindu shrines situated in Udunuwara of Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is located on Daulagala road approximately 4 km away from Pilimatalawa junction and a few kilometres from the temple, Gadaladeniya Vihara.

    3.7 km · Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    National Herbarium of Sri Lanka

    The National Herbarium at Peradeniya, near Kandy in the Central province of Sri Lanka, was started in about 1821 by Alexander Moon, who was the director of the Botanical Gardens there.

    3.1 km · park in Peradeniya, Sri Lanka · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    University of Peradeniya library

    The University of Peradeniya library is a centrally administered network of libraries in the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

    3.5 km · library · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bulumulla

Airports
Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 76 km · Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 90 km · Jaffna (JAF), 286 km
Stations
Peradeniya Junction Railway Station, 2.8 km
  • Colombo → Bulumulla
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · Rs1,000–1,340
    GuideToday
  • Jaffna → Bulumulla
    274 km · quickest by road, 7h 48m · Rs3,060–4,080
    GuideToday
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Bulumulla
    421 km · quickest by air, 8h 1m · ₹14,160–21,650
    GuideToday
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Bulumulla

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 Bulumulla. 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

    69 km
  2. 02
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    446 km
  3. 03
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    448 km
  4. 04
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    483 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    487 km

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