A rest day today to see sights in Kandy. These included the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, the Museum of Buddhism, the palace and generally walking around town.

The Temple of the Tooth Relic, has hidden away the left front tooth. There is a sequence of ~20 panels that starts with the history of Buddha and then explains how the tooth ended here with references to kings, the British, etc. There are also small alcoves with different deities. Photos prohibited in many places but got a few to give a flavor.

The Museum of Buddhism was well done. It gave a good history of founding around ~300 BC in northern India and then the spread through the world. There was a sequence of halls, one per country that highlighted unique strains of Buddhism and country specific highlights.

The palace wasn’t as interesting to see but did have some nice dioramas.

Kandy is a town otherwise catering to tourists.

One does need to be careful with monkeys here. One from our group had the door/window unlocked and monkeys decided to get in and create a mess.

Otherwise a quiet and relaxing day. The afternoon had some more rain.

Tomorrow we transfer to the next town  (rather than bicycle) so a bit of a break before continuing the trip in the highlands.