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Girl group Kandy Rain were the first act to be voted off the TV singing talent show.
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But in January the Tigers bombed Kandy's Temple of the Tooth, holiest shrine of the nation's majority Sinhalese.
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To this day, Kandy remains the centre of Buddhist spiritualism in Sri Lanka.
BBC: Getting to the heart and soul of hilly Sri Lanka
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Christopher Ondaatje, now 67, was born in Kandy and sent to boarding school in Britain at the age of 11.
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Fifty kilometres along the train route from Kandy lies the path to Sri Pada, a holy shrine of a much different nature.
BBC: Getting to the heart and soul of hilly Sri Lanka
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Travelling upcountry to Kandy, the green hill country heart of Sri Lanka, the architectural legacy moves from colonial to religious, with Buddhist structures in abundance.
BBC: Sri Lanka��s architectural treasures
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Yeah, that's me, the newest member of the Kool Kandy Klub.
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But Kandy is now a town in mourning.
ECONOMIST: A tooth for a tooth
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The gateway to the hill country is Kandy, the capital of an ancient Sri Lankan kingdom that, thanks to its strategic elevated position, held off 16th-century European invaders for several hundred years longer than the rest of the island.
BBC: Getting to the heart and soul of hilly Sri Lanka
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Slightly farther afield, Sri Lanka's so-called "cultural triangle" - comprising the area bounded by Kandy, Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa - hosts Sri Lanka's most celebrated archaeological and cultural sites, and four more of its Unesco World Heritage sites.
BBC: Sri Lanka��s architectural treasures
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And, best of all, chocolate Kandy Kakes.
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Step in line with numerous pilgrims in Kandy's Unesco-rated Sacred City to visit the Dalada Maligawa, also known as the Temple of the Tooth and home to the country's most important Buddhist relic - allegedly a tooth of the Buddha.
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