Dancers, Flowers and the Temple of the Tooth in Kandyland: Most tourist spots have their short list of go-to suggestions, and the Traditional Dance performance in Kandy is one. It's on every night at 5 pm, and the Buddhist religious service at the Temple of the Tooth Relic is on at 6pm, almost next door, so lots of people opt to do both in quick succession. After the dancing, we chose to walk around Kandy Lake instead, which started off ok, but night fell very quickly after 6pm and by the time we got to the far side of the lake we found that the sidewalk was under construction and peak hour traffic was careening along the lake front, so it wasn't the serene walk we'd anticipated but a bleak struggle to survive without falling into
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