Kandy, located in about the exact center of Sri Lanka, is one of the larger cities in the country. It is situated in the hills where most of the country's famous tea is grown. The city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in part because it was the last capital of the Sinhala kings, who ruled until the British occupation in 1815.
Our guide Sanjay dropped us off at Kandy Lake, a man-made lake built in 1807 in the center of the city. It has a circumference of about two miles, and we strolled around about half of it.
There is a nice sidewalk along the lake shore:
We enjoyed the beautiful scenery, and we noted trees with a bountiful crop of jackfruit:
But even more than jackfruit, the trees were full of nesting black-crowned night herons:
