Botanical Garden and the Buddhist temple of Getambe
Dan Hodder
31 Jan 2024
London
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Travelled in couple -
Jan 2024
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.
Botanical Garden and the Buddhist temple of Getambe
Antonin
22 Jan 2024
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Travelled in couple -
Jan 2024
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!
Botanical Garden and the Buddhist temple of Getambe
Victoria
14 Jan 2024
Montreal
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Travelled in couple -
Jan 2024
Ravi is well informed and articulated . Most of the tour consisted of a walk in a forest park, which, after the heavy rain of the days before, was a muddy experience. So, wear good walking shoes.Beside the forest walk we spent about fifteen minutes seeing a nice open chapel in one of the numerous schools in Kandy. We have taken a lot of Guru Walks and this one was not what we expected. The name and description of the tour are misleading.
Colonial Past and Tropical Rain Forest Walk
Jeroen
14 Jan 2024
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Travelled in couple -
Jan 2024
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!
Botanical Garden and the Buddhist temple of Getambe
Chris
07 Jan 2024
Melbourne
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Travelled in couple -
Jan 2024
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.
Botanical Garden and the Buddhist temple of Getambe
Lucas
29 Nov 2023
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Travelled in couple -
Nov 2023
Tour super recomendable y ravana muy amable, culto y simpatico
Colonial Past and Tropical Rain Forest Walk
Rachel
09 Nov 2023
London
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Travelled in couple -
Nov 2023
Interesting tour with Ravi, to the trinity college chapel and rainforest. Thank you!
Colonial Past and Tropical Rain Forest Walk
Eva Osiander
25 Oct 2023
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Travelled in couple -
Oct 2023
Ravi was a super enthusiastic and well informed guide! It was a pleasure exploring the hidden place of Trinity College with him - highly recommended!
Colonial Past and Tropical Rain Forest Walk
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