The First-Timer’s Travel Guide to Kandy, Sri Lanka (2019)

I was invited to Sri Lanka in October 2018 to attend TBC Asia. It’s a biennial event organized by Cinnamon Hotels to honor the best travel bloggers in the business. We were a nominee for best travel food blog and came away with silver. Hooray!

Before the awards ceremony, all sixty nominees were taken on one of four press trips throughout the country. I went on the south tour and visited idyllic places along the coast like Hikkaduwa, Beruwala, Galle, and Mirissa. I saw blue whales for the first and only time in my life and got to go on safari at Yala National Park, a wildlife reserve known for having one of the highest concentration of leopards in the world. Unfortunately, we didn’t see any but it was still a highlight of the trip.

Most of my fellow nominees had been to Sri Lanka before so…