Medawala
Medawala is a village in Sri Lanka.
Medawala is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province. It is a junction connecting of roads to Ranawana along Katugasthota, Hedeniya, Pujapitiya and Bokkawala.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Medawala
- Airports
- Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 78 km · Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 96 km · Jaffna (JAF), 276 km
- Colombo → Medawala92 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · Rs1,190–1,590
- Jaffna → Medawala264 km · quickest by road, 7h 32m · Rs2,960–3,940
- Thiruvananthapuram → Medawala418 km · quickest by air, 8h 4m · ₹14,260–21,800
- 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 Medawala
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 Medawala. 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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If you know how people move in Medawala – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Medawala
- Aladeniyavillage in Central Province, Sri Lanka2.7 km
- Alawattegamavillage in Central Province, Sri Lanka1.7 km
- Attaragamavillage in Central Province, Sri Lanka2.1 km
- Bamunupolavillage in Central Province, Sri Lanka3.9 km
- Bokkawalavillage in Central Province, Sri Lanka3.4 km
- Hedeniyavillage in Central Province, Sri Lanka2 km