Climb the spiral staircase of Ambuluwawa's multi-faith tower — Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic and Christian architecture wound into one helix-shaped structure — for a 360° view over the hill country and the Mahaweli valley below.
Stop at the viewpoints above the Mahaweli valley outside Gampola, where Sri Lanka's longest river winds through tea and paddy country between the hill towns of Kandy and Nuwara Eliya.
Ambuluwawa Biodiversity Complex
A forest reserve on the slopes below Ambuluwawa Tower, protecting the hillside that surrounds the spiral tower and its panoramic viewpoint.
Ambuluwawa Tower
A distinctive spiral tower combining Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic and Christian architectural elements, with a narrow internal staircase leading to 360° hill-country views.
Lankatilaka Vihara
A 14th-century rock-built temple from the Gampola kingdom era, with vaulted brick upper storeys and faded frescoes — one corner of the Kandy area's 'sacred triangle'.
Embekke Devalaya
Famous for its carved wooden pillars — over 500 individual carvings of dancers, wrestlers, and mythical animals — among the finest surviving examples of Kandyan-era woodwork.
Ambuluwawa Tower
A distinctive spiral tower combining Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic and Christian architectural elements, with a narrow internal staircase leading to 360° hill-country views.
Lankatilaka Vihara
A 14th-century rock-built temple from the Gampola kingdom era, with vaulted brick upper storeys and faded frescoes — one corner of the Kandy area's 'sacred triangle'.
Embekke Devalaya
Famous for its carved wooden pillars — over 500 individual carvings of dancers, wrestlers, and mythical animals — among the finest surviving examples of Kandyan-era woodwork.
Gadaladeniya Vihara
A 14th-century temple with South Indian-influenced stone architecture, granite pillars and a carved stone dagoba, built during Gampola's brief spell as Sri Lanka's capital.
Ambuluwawa Biodiversity Complex
A forest reserve on the slopes below Ambuluwawa Tower, protecting the hillside that surrounds the spiral tower and its panoramic viewpoint.
Ambuluwawa Tower
A distinctive spiral tower combining Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic and Christian architectural elements, with a narrow internal staircase leading to 360° hill-country views.
Lankatilaka Vihara
A 14th-century rock-built temple from the Gampola kingdom era, with vaulted brick upper storeys and faded frescoes — one corner of the Kandy area's 'sacred triangle'.
Embekke Devalaya
Famous for its carved wooden pillars — over 500 individual carvings of dancers, wrestlers, and mythical animals — among the finest surviving examples of Kandyan-era woodwork.
Ambuluwawa Tower
A distinctive spiral tower combining Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic and Christian architectural elements, with a narrow internal staircase leading to 360° hill-country views.
Mahaweli River valley viewpoints
Roadside stops above the Mahaweli valley outside Gampola, where the country's longest river cuts through terraced tea and paddy land.
Ambuluwawa Biodiversity Complex
A forest reserve on the slopes below Ambuluwawa Tower, protecting the hillside that surrounds the spiral tower and its panoramic viewpoint.
Ambuluwawa Tower
A distinctive spiral tower combining Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic and Christian architectural elements, with a narrow internal staircase leading to 360° hill-country views.
Lankatilaka Vihara
A 14th-century rock-built temple from the Gampola kingdom era, with vaulted brick upper storeys and faded frescoes — one corner of the Kandy area's 'sacred triangle'.
Embekke Devalaya
Famous for its carved wooden pillars — over 500 individual carvings of dancers, wrestlers, and mythical animals — among the finest surviving examples of Kandyan-era woodwork.
Niyangampaya Raja Maha Vihara
A quiet village temple typical of the smaller shrines scattered through the Gampola countryside, away from the main sacred-triangle circuit.
Kothmale Mahaweli Maha Seya
A large modern stupa overlooking the Kothmale reservoir, built to mark the Mahaweli development programme that dammed the river upstream of Gampola.
Gampola old town
The former 14th-century capital of the short-lived Gampola kingdom, today a working market town with older colonial-era shopfronts along its main street.
Mahaweli River valley viewpoints
Roadside stops above the Mahaweli valley outside Gampola, where the country's longest river cuts through terraced tea and paddy land.
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