Sri Lankan art, stag heads, antique weaponry clamber up walls together with newspaper cuttings, poignant photographs & hastily scribbled verses, illustrating the history of the family of the house.
Every bedroom (with air-conditioning), is different designed and has it’s own balcony.
The mainly fresh water swimming pool is surrounded by jungle & guarded by fairies!
The private cinema shows films made in Sri Lanka & connected to the folly amongst others.
Photographs of famous guests together with members of the family line the walls, amongst them ‘TALK’ magazine’s article ‘Bitter Suite ’tells of the romance between Vivian Leigh & Peter Finch at the’ folly’. Picture of them with Helga’s aunt Minnette de Silva (one of Asia’s first woman architects & pupil of Corbusier) hangs in the Green room.
The HELGA’S FOLLY, Kandy is 136 km from Sri Lanka's international airport and 116 km from Colombo.
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