Kandy District
Kandy District is a district of the Central Province of Sri Lanka.
Kandy District is a district of the Central Province of Sri Lanka. Its area is 1,940 km2.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Kandy District
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.
- 01Victoria Dam
Victoria Dam is an arch dam located 130 mi upstream of the Mahaweli River's mouth and 4 mi from Teldeniya in Sri Lanka. It is named in honour of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
3.9 km · dam in Sri Lanka · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kandy District
- Airports
- Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 96 km · Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 107 km · Jaffna (JAF), 292 km
- Colombo → Kandy District93 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · Rs1,190–1,590
- Jaffna → Kandy District282 km · quickest by road, 8h 22m · Rs3,180–4,250
- Thiruvananthapuram → Kandy District430 km · quickest by air, 8h 21m · ₹14,760–22,500
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kandy District
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 Kandy District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSigiriya Airport () has scheduled helicopter and light aircraft flights from Colombo (mostly), Hambantota and Trincomalee.
From Wikivoyage: Central Province (Sri Lanka), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-12.
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Next door to Kandy District
- Marassanavillage in Central Province, Sri Lanka3.1 km
- Mailapitiya Lowervillage in Central Province, Sri Lanka1.9 km
- Mailapitiya Uppervillage in Central Province, Sri Lanka1.9 km
- Palle Mailapitiyavillage in Central Province, Sri Lanka1.9 km
- Uda Mailapitiyavillage in Central Province, Sri Lanka1.9 km