Perahera
Is the most famous festival in kandy usually in august. it's a pageant where many elephants participate. you can buy expensive seats or can see it with the crowd. buy a seat from the queens hotel. this will be around $40. buy the tickets from the officials or otherwise through middlemen you will be paying exorbitant prizes.
Kandyan dancing
You can see this traditional form of dancing in the "kandyan cultural center" near the kandy lake.
Nilambe meditation center
(http://www.nilambe.org/). have to take a "galaha" bus passing peradeniya (get down from nilambe "office junction". is a buddhist retreat which offers experiences of a monastic lifestyle. you can engage in daily activities which involves yoga classes, meditation and discussions.
Asgiriya Stadium
If there's a cricket match on, spend a day at the Asgiriya Stadium, possibly the world's prettiest test match venue, and certainly the only one that for most of the year is simply a school sports ground Trinity College.
The Kandy district has large number of known treks. Within the Kandy city the short walk of Asgiri Maha Viharaya via Bahirawakande hill is an interesting. Udawattakelle forest reserve in within the city limit, gives valuable walking in nature. The secret Walkers Forest upper Hantane trek is on special permission from the Municipal Council of Kandy. The famous Western Shrines of Kandy Gadaladeniya, Lankathilake temples and Embakke shrine are connected by a very scenic footpath. Other part of the west of Kandy, a part of Portuguese War Route, via Ihalakotte railway station to Dodanwala Devale shrine is passing forest reserves, Alagalle Mountain, tea estates and kandyan traditional villages. East of Kandy city the temples Gangaramaya, Galmaduwa, Degaldoruwa temple are well known for paintings, sculptures and architectural techniques.Knuckles mountain range and its forest trails are the most suitable for trekking in Sri Lanka. It has many nature trails cleared trough the forest by forest department with campsites. For example Mini worldâs end trails in the west and east, Pitawala pathena trail, Ash cave trail, Nitre cave trail, Knuckles summit trail are very exciting. Also there are interconnected footpaths of cardamom planters, toddy tappers, tea plantation workers, farmers and villages. Traditional villages of the Knuckles foothills with so mach of treks and short walks such as Last King of Kandy, Sri Wikrama Rajasinheâs 1798-1815 hideout place, Rathna water fall trek, Sitakotuwa limestone cave and waterfall trek, etc.South of Kandy the longest rice field scenery of the island, Lamasuriyagama the rice field was belonging to royal court of Kandy a very spectacular trek. It is undisturbed from electricity wires for photographs and with terrace rice fields by a Loggaloya river with watch huts of farmers. Loggaloya riverine forest trail to Victoria â Randenigala â Rantambe sanctuary is also a very interesting trekking.
Buddhist Publication Society
This is located near the lake. you can participate in discussions about buddhism, meditation or you can buy some introductory materials about buddhism.