A Photo Gallery of the sacred city of Kandyin central Sri LankaKandy
is the English name for the city of Maha Nuvara (
Senkadagalapura ) in the centre of Sri Lanka. It lies
amidst hills in the Kandy
Valley which crosses an area of tropical, mainly tea, plantations. With its
Temple of the ( Buddha's ) Tooth, Kandy is a Unesco World Heritage Site. Kandy
lies at an altitude of about 500m above sea level
around an artificial lake and the administration buildings of the old capital.
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