Handessa
Handessa is a village in Sri Lanka.
Handessa is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province in the Udunuwara electorate in the district of Kandy.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Handessa
4 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.
- 01University 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.
2.7 km · state university in Kandy, Sri Lanka · Wikipedia - 02Embekka Devalaya
Embekka Devalaya was built by the King Vikramabahu III of Gampola Era in Sri Lanka. The Devalaya is dedicated to God Kataragama.
2.4 km · A Sinhalese indigenous deity shrine in Kandy District, Sri Lanka · Wikipedia - 03Lankatilaka 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.
2.1 km · Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka · Wikipedia - 04University of Peradeniya library
The University of Peradeniya library is a centrally administered network of libraries in the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
2.8 km · library · Wikipedia
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Getting to Handessa
- Airports
- Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 77 km · Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 90 km · Jaffna (JAF), 290 km
- Stations
- Peradeniya Junction Railway Station, 2.8 km
- Colombo → Handessa87 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · Rs1,040–1,390
- Jaffna → Handessa279 km · quickest by road, 7h 53m · Rs3,080–4,110
- Thiruvananthapuram → Handessa424 km · quickest by air, 8h 3m · ₹14,210–21,700
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Handessa
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 Handessa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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