Kandy Full Day Cycling Tour: Explore Historical and Traditional Industrial Landscapes

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This extensive excursion will lead you through both the historical and the customary industrial scenery of Kandy as well as its surrounding areas.

Duration: 10 hours

Cancellation: 1 day learn more

Highlights

Gannoruwa - This comprehensive tour will take you through historical and the traditional industrial
landscape of Kandy and its outskirts. Our guides will be ready with the bikes in front of
Royal park (wale’s park) Kandy to start off with this full day excursion.
We will be riding along Mahaweli River which is Sri Lanka’s longest river to reach
Garrison’s cemetery which is burial lands to commemorate the soldiers who have died
from 1st and 2nd world wars.
We will be heading over to Gannoruwa Agro Farm, an 80-hectare facility where you can see
local agriculture at its finest. A diverse array of agricultural industries, such as fruit and
vegetable gardens, beekeeping, plant pathology center, insect zoo, and herbal gardens are
on display. Seeing up close the making of fine-crafted goods at the handicraft center at
Dodanwala on our way will be only at your request.
Dawson Tower - Through the less traffic back routes we will reach a tea factory where you can lively see
how the tea leave is processed. A nice cup of tea at the end will help to refresh you to start
off rolling towards Dawson Tower in Kadugannawa town which is our next attraction, a
monument to the commanding engineer of Ceylon in the 1800s, Captain Dawson, who built
the country’s first highway system.
Temple of the Gadaladenia - The lunch will be prepared at a nice and hygienic restaurant. Next on the tour are three
14th century temples in the Pilimathalawa area - the Gadaladeniya Temple, the Embekka
Devalaya, famous for its intricate wood carvings, and the Lankathilaka Temple - all with
aesthetic, cultural and religious importance. We will conclude the tour after reaching
Peradeniya.