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How To Reach Kandy City From Chennai

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Chennai To Kandy City Distance

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Chennai to Kandy4.0 hours---

Kandy City is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Sri Lanka. However, there are always doubts regarding how to reach Kandy City or the most convenient way to reach the city. If you are planning to travel from Chennai to Kandy City, there is no direct route to the destination. The Chennai to Kandy flight will first take you to the capital city of Sri Lanka, Colombo. From here, you can travel to Kandy City by various ways of transport like the train, bus or a cab to reach the city.

As soon as you alight from your flight in Colombo, the second half of your Chennai to Kandy travel starts. If you plan to travel by train, deboard your flight and board a train from the Colombo Railway Station and alight at the Kandy Railway Station. This ride takes approximately 2 hours and is accompanied by various railway facilities. The view outside the train is enjoyable and a must-try. The trains keep running throughout the day but you will need to buy tickets to get an individual seat for yourselves. Please adhere to the timings mentioned in the ticket. The bus is the easiest and cheapest way to reach Kandy city. So, if you plan to take a bus, it will be a 3-hour bus ride from Colombo to Kandy. There are various air-conditioned intercity buses that run throughout the day. However, the bus requires you to buy a ticket at least one week in advance so that you can have a comfortable ride to the city. The ticket allows you to reserve a seat for yourself throughout the ride. Booking a cab or hiring a car should be chosen as a mode of transport if you want to travel individually. The cab usually takes the shortest way to reach the city but it takes more time than the other travel options. The ride is roughly 4 hours. The ride is comfortable and will allow you to make stops on the way to view and admire popular tourist attractions.

The only way to reach Kandy City from India is by air as the sea routes have been permanently stopped due to security and unstable weather conditions.

The most comfortable way to travel to Kandy City is by traveling by means of an airplane. There are many Chennai to Kandy flights like Air India, Indigo, Spicejet and Sri Lankan Airways that will take you to and fro Chennai and Sri Lanka. However, you can only take a Sri Lankan flight while traveling from Sri Lanka to Chennai. If you book your tickets at least 4 months in advance, you can avail of a ticket for another plane that will take you from Colombo to Kandy. This plane will drop you in Kandy in about one hour. The first flight takes about 3 hours to take you from Chennai to Columbo. So, the total time taken to reach travel from Chennai to Kandy by air is 4 hours. The timings differ according to the time of purchasing the tickets and the seats available. Since traveling by air is the only way to travel from India to Sri Lanka, there is a huge demand for the purchasing of tickets to travel from Colombo to Kandy City.

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    Shilpa Hegde

    Bengaluru

    Shilpa's 6 days trip to Kandy

    Nicely arranged tour.. Had a wonderful time. The whole trip was memorable as each day was well planned.
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    Praveen V

    Hyderabad

    Praveen's 6 days trip to Kandy

    We have great experience with TRAVCO they are the best travel agent i have found for srilankan trip.we have planned for 6 days and 6 nights trip. customer services are EXCELLENT. From Arrival till departure they always with us and taken care. upon arrival in srilankan airport,we had a warm welcome
    by Mr. Fernando & Mr. Nandiga . Nandiga(car driver) is with us for entire 6 days and guided us with the tourist places as per the itenary. We highly recommend TRAVCO adventures those who want to visit Sri Lanka. Contact Mr. Fernando(+94776761823) from TRAVCO as he is the one who planned our trip and made it most memorable.
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    Harshith G S

    Harshith's 7 days trip to Kandy

    All the hotels were good ,great service for reasonable price.Travel agent Kevin and our driver his assistant all were very good and explaining all the details. We enjoyed a lot in this trip .thank you
    PM

    Prerna Maheshwari

    Bengaluru

    Prerna's 5 days trip to Kandy

    The tour operators were always there to help us with problems that we faced, which eventually helped us having a good trip in Srilanka.
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    Nisha

    Mumbai

    Nisha's 5 days trip to Kandy

    Ceylon trips has done fantastic job from planning till execution every query was solved at one phone call he never missed any calls n guided us well wat he said did more better thanks Ceylon trips n travel my trip was full of memories
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    Piyush Kejriwal

    Mumbai

    Piyush's 6 days trip to Kandy

    Nothing for the hotels, (because it is directly related to the overall trip budget), but the driver was okay kind of. He didn't really suggest anything wherever we went just the itinerary piece he used to stick to. Overall the trip planned by the agent was good.
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    Yaramallla Aravind

    Hyderabad

    Yaramallla's 4 days trip to Kandy

    Great experience.Special thanks to Ms.Chamodi and her team. For first payment to till we were back to airport ,her team members too care of us. Lots of love srilanka. Our chauffer Mr.Wickyrathana is really good human being.thank you... Tooth relic temple, tea estates and colombo local trip
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    Swarna Bhat

    Bangalore

    Swarna's 7 days trip to Kandy

    Dinagi Lanka tours planned a wonderful trip for us. Thank you so much for well arrangements and multiple sight seeing Nuwara Eliya a gem in Srilanka
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    Aseem Agrawal

    Mumbai

    Aseem's 6 days trip to Kandy

    They are ok, the driver was not telling himself on what to do and where to go but he was decent and never denied going anywhere wherever we asked. the itinerary could have been better. we missed pinnawala because of it. We paid a premium to this agency but saw no diffference. Could have seleted any
    other agency which was cheaper.
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    Srinivasan Raghunathan

    Chennai

    Srinivasan's 8 days trip to Kandy

    The service provider Steeple Tours was excellent and they coordinated the trip very well. No challenges during the entire trip. Special mention of the driver and guide who was very helpful. Ready to go anytime as per the plan and guided the entire tour. However, there was NO support from the trav
    el triangle guide starting from the booking till closure. Hardly I had a chance to speak to him. Even during the payment, had to escalate as he was not reachable. The whole experience thru travel triangle was NOT satisfactory.

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