Join Kandyan botanist Bandara Palipana for a walking tour of Peradeniya’s famous plant collection. Palipana has worked in the city’s Botanical Gardens for over 30 years and will guide you through the vast collection of over 4,000 trees, palms and flowers, which include more than 300 varieties of orchid. The real show stopper here, though, is the giant Javan fig tree growing on the Great Lawn – an extraordinary specimen said to be over a century old.

You can add this experience to any tailor-made itinerary that includes a night in Kandy.