18 Photos of Sri Lanka’s Haunted Hotel: Helga’s Folly:

Helga’s Folly Kandy Sri Lanka

My friend Holly and I received a tip from another traveler to go check out a bizarre and supposedly haunted artistic hotel in Kandy called Helga’s Folly. You don’t have to stay at the hotel to be able to see it, and from what I’ve read online and the pricing per night, you’d be best off just stopping by to see it.

Here is Lonely Planets review:

Helga’s Folly could easily have been dreamt up as a joint project between Gaudí and Dalí. This 35-room hotel/art gallery/surrealist dream has to be the most over-the-top and truly extraordinary hotel in Sri Lanka. The rock band Sterophonics famously wrote a song about the owner and her creation has surely led to a thousand twisted nightmares for her guests.

It’s run and designed by the outlandish Helga da Silva, who grew up in a world of 1950s Hollywood celebrities, artists, writers, politicians and general intrigue, and she has to be one of the only hotel owners we’ve ever met who prefers her property not to be full! As extraordinary as it all is, once you’ve peeled through all the decorations you’ll see that the place is actually looking pretty tatty. Rather than stay here we’d recommend just popping past for a poke about and a drink – for many people it’s actually one of the most interesting sights in Kandy.

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