The city of Kandy offers a variety of splendid things – ranging form its historical past in form of sacred temples – amongst which the ‘Dalada Maligawa’ where the sacred tooth relic of Lord Buddha is housed, placed inside a series of golden caskets – Is the most notable temple – visited annually by thousands of tourists and is the centerpiece of this historical city  where the last of the royalty reigned – The city itself is a splendid site with an all modern shopping mall with its sprawling roof top food court plays a well patronized location among other historical sites situated in the outskirts of the city limits, easily reachable from the Kandyan Arts Residency Hotel which is centrally situated to reach any of these locations including the sprawling Peradeniya Botanical garden, which is home to a number of rare foliage and medicinal herbs – Kandy boasts of a cool climatic condition prevalent most part of the year.