Gaia Lake Bungalow Kandalama

We stayed at Gaia Lake Bungalows for one week and had an excellent time. You can rent the whole villa and enjoy a really unique private experience in this central region of Sri Lanka. The villa is located directly at the beautiful Kandalama Lake (with a stunning view on the lake) and is certainly one of the best locations you can choose for exploration of the cultural triangle between Polonaruwa, Anuradhapura, Kandy and Dambulla, including Sigiriya. Sarath, the private cook will introduce you to the various flavours of traditional Sri Lankan food and Darshi the manager kindly supports any kind of arrangements you may need. We booked the entire villa for only 3 persons but there is plenty of room for 6 persons or even more. Moreover a large swimming pool is available for exercise or relaxation after excursions. We enjoyed our stay very much.

Quiet and catered to our family needs. Cook was good.

On the surface its clean but when you look closer its needs a proper cleaning. A bit dated but thats part of the eco friendly charm probably. Lots of bugs and cockroaches in the bed rooms. 1 room is not within the house and thats not mentioned in the description. Worse is no hot water and pressure is low. Its advertised as lake front but there is no access to the lake. Just a very nice view from the patio.

Amazing staff and the owner who helped me greatly to arrange my booking! Chef Sarath was super! He went above and beyond to meet our needs!

I think because of the rainy season lots of water flies at night during dinner.

The food prepared by the on-site cook was delicious. It was a pity we had to shorten our stay, but we enjoyed the ambiance of the place for the one night we were there.

It was unfortunate that the lake had dried up, as we were looking forward to seeing the wildlife drinking at the water.