Parks and gardens

Parks and gardens

Royal Botanical garden

Peradeniya Botanical garden

The Royal Botanical Garden, Peradeniya is situated about 5 km to the west of the city centre at Peradeniya and is visited by 1.2 million people per year. It is the largest botanical garden in the island.

Wales Park

The Wales Park is a small park that over looks the Kandy lake and most of the city. In the park is a Japanese field gun which had been captured by the British 14th Army in Burma during world war 2 and presented to the city of Kandy by Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Theatre.