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An Ancient Tank, Rebuilt

Kandalama Reservoir — 12 km east of Dambulla by road

Kandalama Reservoir seen from the ridge above its northern shoreSEEN FROM THE RIDGEPhoto by Rehman Abubakr on Wikimedia Commons
12 km east of Dambulla by roadPhoto — Rehman Abubakr

The bund road gives the same water-and-rock outlook Bawa designed the hotel around, with Dambulla's outcrops across the tank.

An ancient tank east of Dambulla, rebuilt by the Irrigation Department in the 1950s and fed by the Mirisgoniya Oya. Geoffrey Bawa's Heritance Kandalama hotel, finished in 1995, is built into the ridge above its shore.

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7.8772° N, 80.7000° ECarto · OSM