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Dhamma Kuta Vipassana Meditation Centre
MEDITATION
This centre offers courses from one day to 10 days following the SN Goenka system of
meditation. Booking ahead is mandatory. There's dorm accommodation with separate male
and female quarters. Take a Mahakanda-bound bus from the clock-tower bus stop in
Kandy and get off at the last stop. It's a steep 2km walk.
Sleeping
If you want quiet days spent wandering along shaded tracks, with views of rolling hills,
then stay just outside of Kandy. Accommodation skews to midrange and top-end proper-
ties and there are some lovely places worth splashing out for.
Baramba House
BOUTIQUE HOTEL
breakfast US$85-95; )
The Swiss-Sri Lankan owners of this idyllic little three-room 'boutique guesthouse' have
created a little slice of bliss here. There are cool, high-ceilinged rooms with fans swishing
lazily away above giant four-poster beds, a crystal-clear pool in which to work up a break-
fast appetite and terraces with easy-chairs, and views over the jungly hills and chocolate-
coloured river.
No children under 12 years are allowed. It's out near the
Kandy War Cemetery
and a Rs
300 tuk-tuk ride from central Kandy.
The Kandy House
BOUTIQUE HOTEL
Walauwa, Gunnepana;r incl breakfast from US$355; )
Thanks to masses of exotic tropical flora, the air you breathe at this divine boutique hotel,
which was once the family home of a Kandyan chief, literally tastes perfumed. Now fully
restored, this divine boutique hotel, which is decorated with colonial Dutch antiques, ticks
all the honeymoon requirement boxes. A garden infinity pool segues to emerald-green rice
paddies.
