Peradeniya
Peradeniya is a suburb of the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka with about 30,000 inhabitants.
Peradeniya is a suburb of the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka with about 30,000 inhabitants. It is situated on the A1 main road, a few kilometres west of Kandy city centre. Peradeniya's name is derived from pera (guava) and deniya.
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Worth seeing in and around Peradeniya
9 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.
- 01Royal 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.
700 m · botanical garden in Sri Lanka · Wikipedia - 02University 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.
1.4 km · state university in Kandy, Sri Lanka · Wikipedia - 03Hanthana Mountain Range
The Hanthana Mountain Range lies in the central highlands of Sri Lanka, south-west of Kandy. It was declared as an environmental protection area in February 2010 under the National Environment Act.
3.3 km · mountain range in Sri Lanka · Wikipedia - 04Ceylon Tea Museum
The Ceylon Tea Museum is located in the former Hanthana Tea Factory, which was originally constructed in 1925. It is situated 3 km south of Kandy.
3.6 km · tea museum in Kandy, Sri Lanka · Wikipedia - 05Katukele Jumma Mosque
The Katukele Jumma Mosque, or the Katukele Grand Mosque, is a mosque located in the Katukele neighborhood within Kandy, Central Province, Sri Lanka. The mosque was visited by President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya in April and September 2024, respectively.
3.4 km · mosque in Katukele, Central, Sri Lanka · Wikipedia - 06National 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.
800 m · park in Peradeniya, Sri Lanka · Wikipedia - 07Kandy War Cemetery
The Kandy War Cemetery, formerly known as the Pitakande Military Cemetery, is a British military cemetery in Kandy, Sri Lanka, for soldiers of the British Empire who were killed during World War II as well as a soldier who died during World War I. The cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained burial site for soldiers. There are 203 buried consisting of: 107 British, 35 East Africans, 26 Sri Lankans, 23 Indians, 6 Canadians, 3 Italians, 1 Frenchman and 2 unidentified persons, Of the 203 dead, 151 were army, 32 were air force, 16 were navy, 2 were unidentified, 1 was merchant navy and 1 was from the national fire service.
1.9 km · Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained cemetery in Sri Lanka · Wikipedia - 08Suduhumpola Raja Maha Vihara
Suduhumpola Raja Maha Vihara is an 18th-century Buddhist monastery in the village of Suduhumpola, within Sri Lanka's Kandy District. Tucked into the lower slopes of the Hanthana Mountain Range, the site dates back to the Kandyan era and is protected as an official national landmark.
3 km · 18th-century Buddhist monastery · Wikipedia - 09University of Peradeniya library
The University of Peradeniya library is a centrally administered network of libraries in the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
1.4 km · library · Wikipedia
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Getting to Peradeniya
- Airports
- Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 80 km · Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 93 km · Jaffna (JAF), 287 km
- Stations
- Peradeniya Junction Railway Station, 1.5 km
- Colombo → Peradeniya90 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · Rs1,020–1,360
- Jaffna → Peradeniya275 km · quickest by road, 7h 42m · Rs3,030–4,040
- Thiruvananthapuram → Peradeniya424 km · quickest by air, 8h 7m · ₹14,360–21,950
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No local-transport research exists yet for Peradeniya
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 Peradeniya. 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).
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