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After Final Randoli, Diya at 1:28 AM. I keep reading it is not for tourists — still go quietly?

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Lucia Lopez112•221 rep

Elder with a stick, we can pay a bit more. Diya Kapeema is listed 1:28 AM on Friday 28 Aug after Final Randoli. I keep reading it is not for tourists — still go quietly. Standing three hours on kerb stone is not a flex in this family.

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Local from the lake side: listed 1:28 AM for Diya Kapeema is when they start leaving the Maligawa, not when the tusker fills the palace-wall shade strip. Drums first, then dancers, then the heavy bit. If you want kerb, four is early-Kumbal sane and late-Randoli mandatory. Diya is a water-cutting ritual at 1:28 AM, not a second Grand Randoli. If you need sleep, skip it and do Dahawal at 2:18 PM. Do not invent a tourist ticket for it. Call the desk before you guess a late checkout.

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Hasitha Abeywickrama•201 rep

We did 3rd Kumbal from a different corner and then Final Randoli from the palace-wall shade strip. Not the same night. Listed 6:43 PM and they were still lining up. We should have bought water before we sat. Shoes you can stand in, not the pretty pair.

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Lucia Fernandez117•201 rep

If the elder already said no to standing, that is the answer. Pay a balcony or skip Diya Kapeema and do Dahawal at 2:18 PM on the 28th in daylight. Pride is not a viewing plan. Then tea, then the room.

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