Kandy · Things to do

Royal forest right behind the temple: over 100 hectares of monkeys, giant squirrels and quiet trails. Take a guide.

A restored tea factory with working Victorian machinery and a top-floor tearoom looking over the estates.

Two floors of jackfruit, spices and dried fish beside the clock tower. The best cheap photography in town.

Ten nights each July or August of tuskers, whip-crackers and torch dancers. Grandstand seats sell out months ahead.

Fourteenth-century temples southwest of town, reached on a fine back-road loop past paddy and betel gardens.