The Kandy House has been the recipient of rave reviews, including selection to the Conde Nast US Traveler Hotel Hot List 2006. This boutique hotel, a unique, historical Kandyan manor house (walauwa), provides seclusion and serenity for its guests in a lush, tropical garden setting close to Kandy. Traditional Kandyan architecture has been blended with Bawa-influenced Sri Lankan modern, polished titanium cement floors and bathrooms. There are nine luxury bedroom suites in all. In the gardens a stunning infinity pool has been landscaped into the hillside overlooking the rice paddy fields. Delicious European fusion and Sri Lankan cuisine is on offer. Great times to visit Kandy include Christmas, Wesak, celebrating Buddha’s birthday and the most important of the Buddhist festivals and the Kandy Esala Perahera , a magnificent Buddhist pageant with hundreds of costumed dancers, drummers, musicians, torch bearers, whip-crackers, acrobats and elephants.