Elephant Orphanage & Temples

Millennium Elephant Foundation

Visit Millennium Elephant Foundation and get an opportunity to ride on an elephant ride, give elephant a bath, and get an elephant to give you a shower while riding it. After visiting the foundation you will have lunch at a restaurant of your choice.

Elephant Bath

Taking Pictures with Elephants

Elephant in the foundation

Bathing an Elephant

Bathing an Elephant

Elephant giving a shower

Lankathilaka Rajamaha Viharaya (Temple)

Visit the 14th Century Temple that once was Four storied, built on an uneven Rock Bed. The huge rock where the temple was built is called as Panhangala Rock. The Lankatilaka temple history runs back to the Gampola Kingdom era. King Buwanekabahu IV has built this temple in 1344 AD. The King's Chief Ministers Senalankadhikara was entrusted to carry out the construction work of this temple.

Entrance to the Temple

Lankathilaka Temple

Lankathilaka Rajamaha Viharaya

Stupa at Lankatilaka Temple

Floral Designs seen in the Temple

Stairs leading to the Temple

Gadaladeniya Temple

Next visit will be to Gadaladeniya Temple. This site with an ancient monastery is found on the flat rock at Diggala in the district of Kandy. According to a inscription there this temple was built by King Buwanekabahu IV in the year 1344. The chief architect of this temple has been a south indian called Ganesvarachari.

Gadaladeniya Temple

Inside Gadaladeniya Temple

Inside Gadaladeniya Temple

Gadaladeniya Temple

Gadaladeniya Temple

Embekka Devalaya

Next visit will Embekka Devalaya, which was built by the King Vikramabahu III of Gampola Era (AD 1357 - 1374) in Sri Lanka. The Devalaya in Embekka is dedicated to the worship of Mahasen, popularly known as Katharagama Deviyo. The shrine consists of three sections, the "Sanctum of Garagha", the "Digge" or "Dancing Hall" and the "Hevisi Mandapaya" or the "Drummers' Hall". The Drummers' Hall that has drawn the attention of visitors to the site, due to the splendid wood carvings of its ornate pillars and its high pitched roof.

Drummers' Hall

Embekka Devalaya

wood carving of two Angampora Fighters

Amazing Wood Carving

Lock design that dates way back

Wood Carving in Embekka Devalaya

Pillars Carving

"Madol Kurupawa", pins 26 beams together

Door & frame is several hundred years old

Ayurvedic Spa

After all the sightseeing for the day, you will get to relax by spending some quality time at a Ayurvedic spa in Kandy. And after the Ayurvedic spa you will be driven back to your hotel in Kandy.