One day in Kandy, Sri Lanka

A day through Kandy’s best-known sights that lie close together: National Museum of Kandy, Temple of the Tooth, Royal Palace of Kandy, International Buddhist Museum, Temple of the Tooth Museum and Bogambara Prison. 6 stops, about 1 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. National Museum of KandyMuseum · On the map
  2. Temple of the ToothTemple or shrine · 0.1 km on from National Museum of Kandy · On the map
  3. Royal Palace of KandyPalace · 0.1 km on from Temple of the Tooth · On the map
  4. International Buddhist MuseumMuseum · Next to Royal Palace of Kandy · On the map
  5. Temple of the Tooth MuseumMuseum · 0.3 km on from International Buddhist Museum · On the map
  6. Bogambara PrisonMuseum · 0.5 km on from Temple of the Tooth Museum · On the map

6 stops, 2 km on foot along the streets: about 24 min of walking.

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Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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