Subject: Post: <p>We had not much special plans for Kandy, so we just spent the afternoon and evening walking around the city. The main tourist attraction there is Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, which houses a tooth of Buddha. Visiting that temple must have been one of the most stupid 10 euro investments ever. :)</p><p>They had very strict dressing code, which my shorts did not pass and I ended up buying a sheet dress from a guy selling those to unfortunate tourists outside the gates. The cost was just two euros though. Add the 7.5 eur tickets to the extremely crowded temple, and we had just paid 10eur to not actually see a supposed tooth of somebody wearing a dress. :)</p><p>The teeth itself is in a casket which is only displayed twice a day and which you can see from a couple of meters away for a second, in the crowd of queuing local people leaving gifts to it. Well.. It was an interesting thing to see in general.</p><p>The city itself reminds me a lot of India. It's a horrible mess of traffic and people, with very polluted air due to location in a valley. The lake in the middle of the city is pretty beautiful though, and so are some of the colonial-era buildings. It wasn't exactly an interesting place to spend longer than a day on a vacation anyway, so now we just departed Kandy towards Ella.</p><p>We will be driving to a city in between Kandy and Ella and continue the rest of the way by train, as this railway has been called one of the most beautiful ones in the world. We also just decided that from Ella we will continue directly to the southern coast to spend the rest of the days on coast and skip an intended safari visit to one of the national parks. Sea just sounds better.</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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