When my family and I came to Kandy for the holidays I was determined to find the stronghold of Balane, that once all-important position in the Kandyan Kingdom. We got some information from the hotel manager who suggested we take a train from Kandy to Balane station (the next station after Kadugannawa, towards Colombo) and from there hike up the mountain as the road which one could enter from Kadugannawa is not easily motorable.