If you visit the Sri Lanka hill capital of Kandy and fall in love, be content. You are in illustrious company.
Mahatma Gandhi extolled the natural scenery as "probably unsurpassed on the face of the earth."
Said French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, "It is so beautiful one should go there after the struggle is over and just glide away." And Humphrey Davy, an army surgeon, really threw down the nature travel writing gauntlet back in 1819, when he wrote, "No description . . . could do justice to the scenery."
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