Best places: Museums in Embekka, Sri Lanka

👍👍 One of the most important place in sri lanka…

👍👍 A viewpoint where you can see a very wide range. This place has attracted many youths and can be seen on Bulathkohupitiya to Dedugala-Dolosbage road. It has a very cold climate like in Nuwara Eliya. But unfortunately, when I last visited there, I saw a lot of rubbish dumped in this place. 😔 Please...

👍 It was in Kandy where the very first successful tea cultivations were made and at the Tea Museum, visitors can view for themselves all about Ceylon’s tea cultivation. Abandoned for more than a decade, the Tea Museum was refurbished by the Sri Lanka Tea Board and the Planters Association of Sri Lanka...

👍👍 Wow...lovely sight..you can find some fresh Kitul honey around as well .

👍👍 Cottage of 1st person who planted a tea tree in Sri Lanka. I can't believe how much he was motivated to build this tea estate out of rough jungle. He was 17 y old when he came to this country. Today non of youth has this kind of spirit and enthusiasm.

👍👍 The museum is confronted to visitor walking towardsKing’s palace. The tusker who piously carried thecasket of Sacred Tooth relic for about a half century is afirst rated national asset. The tusker having died onthe6th July 1988, was recreated for exhibition to futuregenerations following the cremati...

Museum in the former royal palace displaying weapons, artifacts & more from the Kandian era.

Built circa 1634, this palace was home to the monarch of the Kingdom of Kandy until the early 1800s.

Open since 1986, this small museum displays equipment used to build Sri Lanka's roads.

😠 Before visiting this place I phoned them they said this place only allowed for guests (foreigners).

😠 I visited this place during my trip to Sri Lanka last week. Initially the Tuk Tuk driver brought me here and the staff of this place did a sort of information tour about gems in the store. Later showed me blue sapphire, white sapphire and one Ruby. I got 3 of them over priced (220 USD) after I check...

👍 Good demo of how gems are mines, polished. Lot of options to buy from. They guide you to find out which stone is best for you based on your birth chart or date/time/place of birth and offer you right stone.