Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Hills


Nuwara Eliya


Nuwara Eliya (City of Lights), also known as 'Little' England', was the favourite hill station of the British who tried to create Nuwara Eliyainto a typical English Village.

beautiful places at Nuwara Eliya...
Hakgala Botanical Gardens

Horton Plains

Laksapana Falls

Devon Falls

Adam's Peak - The Pilgrim Path

The Ceylon Breweries - Nuwara Eliya


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Beaches

Bentota
62 km. south of Colombo, the Bentota Resort Complex is a romantic rendezvous of river and sea with several hotels, railway station, post office, shopping arcade, cafeteria and an open air theatre showing folk and mask dancing with clusters of palms overlooking everything.


Bentota Beach


Hikkaduwa
98 km. south of Colombo, Hikkaduwa is the place for underwater delight. Site of the famed coral gardens; hire a glass bottomed boat or goggles and flippers and explore the fantasies under your feet. Don't purchase or encourage sale of corals.






Sithul Pauwa

Walk Into The Jungle Of Sithulpahuwa...

The Sithulpahuwa dagoba stands majestically in the midst of jungle of the Yala sanctuary.


few kilometres inside the magnificent Ruhunu WildLife Sanctuary at a famous archaeological site called Sithulpahuwa.
Sithulpahuwa the ancient monastery site, believed to be one of the few of its kind in Sri Lanka where monks practise Mahayana Buddhism in contrast to Hinayana Buddhism, which has been the accepted form of Buddhism since Lord Buddha's teachings were first brought to Sri Lanka in the 5th Century BC.

Ancient ruins of Bodhisatva statue


The ruins of ancient stone structures scattered in the monastic site.