Road trip to Kandy

This week I joined Rob and his colleagues as they visited Student Study Centres in the Kegalle, Kurunegala, and Kandy. While these cities are relatively close to Colombo (Kandy for example is 115 km from Colombo), traveling by road is slow due to the narrow roads, which are often not in good condition. For example, driving directly from Colombo to Kandy takes about 4 -5 hours. Rob says that there was a project to widen the road out of Colombo however some landowners along the route refused to be relocated. So the road out of Colombo is four lanes for only about a mile and then becomes a two lane road.

Luckily Ravi, the project driver, was able to take us on this trip. (Honestly we have met locals who refuse to drive from Kandy to Colombo due to the chaotic kamikaze driving.)


There are many interesting sights on the drive to Kandy, including this roadside hut built over one hundred years ago for travelers to cook their dinner on route.


And this tunnel blasted by the Brits in the 1800s when they built a road to Kandy.