Giardino Botanico e tempio buddista di Getambe

Great tour and guy overall

Nice relaxing walk where we visited a lesser known (for tourists) Buddhist Temple and the Royal Botanical Garden. Ravi was extremely knowledgeable about the history of Buddhism and Sri Lanka. At the Garden, we met up with a local student who gave us a great perspective on how young people in Sri Lanka view things and some of the challenges they have. Excellent tour overall and would highly recommend.

Ravi is a super friendly person, very knowledgeable. We learned a lot about Sri Lanka in the one hour that we spent with him. Unfortunately, on the day of our tour, no student were available to guide us through the Botanical Garden, but Ravi instead took us on a car tour around the University Campus. He also offered to do a different tour with us in the city center, but we instead decided to walk the botanical garden on our own. All in all, we would recommend Ravi to anyone visiting Kandy!

We had an amazing walking tour with Ravi today. A very kind and knowledgable guide that could tell us a lot about the the temple and sri lanka in general. I would definitely recommend if you are in town to attend this tour!

Ravi is a knowledgable and kind guide who is clearly passionate about history and Buddhism and is eager to share this with visitors to Sri Lanka. He was also keen to answer all of our questions, whether they were related to the temple/Buddhism or just general questions about the customs of Sri Lanka. The tour is performed in two parts - the second part is a walk through the Royal Botanical Gardens guided by a final year school student (in our case, Yasintha). Our walk with Yasintha was a mixture of a formal tour and an informal conversation, and we really enjoyed getting a young Sri Lankan’s perspective about his country and culture. Yasintha even accompanied us in a Tuk Tuk to a local food spot which he recommended. The school students are associated with the local Rotary Club, and the tip you give supports this cause. Overall, we couldn’t recommend this tour enough to anybody visiting Kandy.