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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Nuwara Eliya district

According to the Historical sources, Nuwara Eliya found by Jorn deve an Englishmen in 1819 CE. Nuwara Eliya nominated as a leisurely place in 1824 and several churches horse grounds and other important places built after 1840 year. Nuwara Eliya situated in upcountry in Sri Lanka in higher than 1000 meters. Quantity of land area is Nuwara Eliya area is 1741 square kms. Nuwara Eliya has cool climate, most probably less than 15 ‘C around the year....

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Vilpaththu National Park

Largerst national park in sri lanka located in Anuradapura district and published as reserve in 25th February, 1958. Quantity of the whole area is 130000 hectares. Vilpaththuwa means lot of lakes, it means the forest have lot of lakes. More than 25 natural lakes are located in the forest. Some lakes always have water even period of drought. Forest contains various eco systems, some area in the forest is have Hugh trees and other site of the...

Yala Forest Reserve

Yala is the oldest national nature reserve in Sri Lanka and in quantity in land it in second place. Yala nominated as a nature reserve in 23rd, march 1900 and nominated as a park in 1938 year. Currently yala divided in to five zones and all zones are consists with huge biodiversity. Many no of Wild Elephants are in living Yala. Therefore lot of tourists come and visits Yala for study the behavior of Elephants.  In addition to elephents,...

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Trincomalee

Trincomaliee is one of the beautiful area in north east area of Sri Lanka with more attractive beach. District consists with two electronic divisions, Seruvila and Murthur. Quantity of land of the district is 2727 square Kilometers.   This area were affected by war for several decades, but now everyone can go and visit these area in freedom with peaceful environment. Trincomalee is famous among tourists because it has huge attraction and...

Galle

Galle is one of the beautiful areas which situated in south west part of Sri Lanka with most attractive coast. The area is considered as low country, wet zone and district divided to 10 electronic divisions. Ancient romans coins were founded in several areas of Galle and it shows the Galle was the world trade center in 16th to 19th centuries. After the 14th century, Galle attracted by various foreign countries, such as Portuguese, England, Netherland....

Friday, September 21, 2012

Kandy

Kandy is a one of the ancient kingdom of Sri Lanka. It can be describe as the final kingdom of ancient era. Kandy city is located in 116 km away from Colombo and travel time is around 4 hours. Kandy city was mostly affected by the prutugesi   Dutch and British era in 16 th to 18 th century. Kandy is the last independent   capital of Sri Lanka .Kandy became the kingdom of the last independent king of Sri Wicrama Rajasinha . Kandy...

Dambulla

Dambulla This is one of the cave temples in Sri Lanka. It called as Golden Rock temple. Temple is situated in 4 km s south  from the Dammulla town. Distance from the Kandy is 72 km and also distance from the Colombo is 150 km. According to the chronicle, King Wlagamba was living in this caves with several  monks  because protect from enemies. After the returning power to him, he built a temple in caves which gave protection...

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Anuradhapura

Located in the north-west of the island, Anuradhapura was the capital of Sri Lanka for 1,400 years. It is situated in more than 200 kilometers from Colombo and a drive of around now 4 hours. Anuradapura contributed lot of heritages for Sri Lankan Buddhism. It can be described as a central of the Buddhism of Sri Lanka, because numbers of ancient temples are situated in this area including ‘Ruwanveli Saya’, ‘Sri Maha Bodhi’ which is considered...

Polonnaruwa

Polonnaruwa Polonnaruwa considered as the second ancient capital of the Sri Lanka. It became capital city after the Anuradapura era. Polonnaruwa located in 100 kilometers away from Anuradapura and 216 km away from Colombo. Polonnaruwa had been prominence as the capital city of the Sri Lanka for 300 years. Lot of Buddhist structures were built at these years. When compare with Anuradapura, Polonnaruwa is small in size but those structures are...

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