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Town in Central Province, Sri Lanka

Dickoya

Dikoya is a town in Nuwara Eliya District in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.

Dickoya
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The place

Dikoya is a town in Nuwara Eliya District in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. Dikoya forms Hatton-Dikoya Urban Council with Hatton.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dickoya

One place 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
    Castlereigh Dam

    The Castlereigh Dam is a gravity dam built across the Kehelgamu Oya, a major tributary to the Kelani River, approximately 3 km south-west of Hatton, in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. The dam is a popular location for both locals and tourists.

    3.8 km · dam in Sri Lanka · 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 Dickoya

Airports
Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 79 km · Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 86 km
Stations
Hatton railway station, 2.9 km
  • Colombo → Dickoya
    84 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · Rs1,160–1,550
  • Jaffna → Dickoya
    318 km · quickest by road, 9h 20m · Rs3,650–4,860
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Dickoya
    441 km · quickest by air, 8h 29m · ₹15,010–22,850
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dickoya

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 Dickoya. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    7 ways of moving, 30 sources

    50 km
  2. 02
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    475 km
  3. 03
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    477 km
  4. 04
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    515 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    521 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dickoya

  • Hattontown in Sri Lanka2.6 km
  • Maskeliyatown in Central Province, Sri Lanka5.2 km
  • Norwoodvillage in Central Province, Sri Lanka3.7 km
  • Norwood Bazaarvillage in Central Province, Sri Lanka3.7 km