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Monday, December 14, 2020
Hortain Plains National Park [The largest plain situated in central hills of Sri Lanka]
Horton Plains National Park Hortan Thænna Jathika Udyanaya) is a national park in the central highlands of Sri Lanka that was designated in 1988. It is located at an elevation of 2,100–2,300 m (6,900–7,500 ft) and encompasses montane grassland and cloud forest. It is rich in biodiversity and many species found here are endemic to the region. It is also a popular tourist destination and is situated 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from Ohiya, 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the world-famous Ohiya Gap/Dondra Watch and 32 kilometres (20 mi) from Nuwara Eliya.
The most BEAUTIFUL place in Sri Lanka | Horton Plains National Park
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The Horton Plains are the headwaters of three major Sri Lankan rivers, the Mahaweli, Kelani, and Walawe. In Sinhala the plains are known as Maha Eliya Plains (මහ එළිය තැන්න). Stone tools dating back to Balangoda culture have been found here. The plains' vegetation is grasslands interspersed with montane forest and includes many endemic woody plants. Large herds of Sri Lankan sambar deer feature as typical mammals and the park is also an Important Bird Area with many species not only endemic to Sri Lanka but restricted to the Horton Plains. Forest dieback is one of the major threats to the park and some studies suggest that it is caused by a natural phenomenon.
The sheer precipice of World's End and Baker's Falls are among the tourist attractions of the park.
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Friday, December 11, 2020
Ramboda Ella beautiful waterfall in sri lanka
Ramboda Falls in Sri Lanka: The Most Beautiful Waterfalls of Sri Lanka
Rivers, as they float over choppy floor or down mountains, regularly break up into tributaries or shape waterfalls. Sometimes tributaries of the identical river can also additionally shape dual waterfalls very near every different because the water spills down cliffs and rocks. However, it's miles pretty unusual for the tributaries to mix after forming the waterfalls creating a Y shape.
This precise and exquisite sight may be visible on the Pussellawa vicinity of Nuwara Eliya, on the Ramboda Pass. The Ramboda Falls in Sri Lanka or Ramboda Ella or Puna Ella as those falls are referred to as is constituted of Puna Oya, a tributary of Kothmale Oya. It makes a dual with Dunsinane Falls that's created through Pundalu Oya, additionally a tributary of Kothmale River, and combines at the bottom to shape a Y shape.
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Thursday, December 10, 2020
Rawana Falls - Ella Sri-Lnaka
RAVANA FALLS IN ELLA, SRI LANKA – A COMPLETE GUIDE
Ravana Ella in this Heavy Monsoon Season video
Thursday, October 27, 2011
ADISHAM BUNGALOW
Villiers received a public school education but instead of settling down to a business or political career in England chose adventure in the colony of Ceylon. Soon after his arrival, he began life as a trainee planter (a creeper) on Elbedde Estate, Bogawantalawa. In 1896 he married the daughter of a tea planter and went to Brazil. He returned to Ceylon four years later and soon began his own tea estate, Dikoya Group.
Dream home
In 1905 Villiers joined the firm of George Steuarts, a trading and estate agency house in Colombo, and rose to be its chairman in 1928, a position he held till retirement in 1948. He also played a role in Ceylon politics.
It was while he was chairman of George Steuarts that Sir Thomas commenced building a dream home in the country. He selected an idyllic site at Haputale, surrounded by virgin forest and commanding views across hills and valleys and the highest mountain ranges of Ceylon. The house was designed in the Tudor style, on the lines of Leeds Castle in Kent, with stout granite walls of locally quarried stone, long, narrow turret windows and chimneys. It looked in every detail an Elizabethan country mansion, the retreat in the tropics of a homesick Englishman, nostalgic for the scenes of his boyhood. Villiers spared no expense to ensure that his country home was luxurious in its appointments. The roof was covered with flat Burma teak shingles. The doors, windows, paneling, staircase and floors were all of Burma teak. The elaborate pillared landing on the main staircase adorned by portraits of his relatives, the Clarendons and the Dukes of Bedford, consists of four stout English oaks, polished, but otherwise natural.
The garden lay-out was also British and, as in the house, the incomparable scenery is used to best effect. The terraced lawns, flowerbeds and orchard, like the drawing room, study, library, dining room and bedrooms, look out on lofty mountain ranges, all between 1,800 and 2,100m above sea level, etched sharply on the skyline to form a curious outline called the Sleeping Warrior.
Villiers imported fine period furniture, linen, carpets, porcelain, silver, and glassware from England for his home and named it Adisham after the Kentish village where he was born. English tea and cabbage roses bloomed on the lawns. Albertines and honeysuckle climbed over the porches and windows strawberries, apples and Victoria plums ripened in the cool mountain air and the tropical sunshine. Villiers even had an English chauffeur for his Daimler.
House parties
Adisham entertained the social elite of Ceylon at the time. Its house parties included the governor and distinguished visitors to the island. Lady Villiers, chatelaine of Adisham, was a gracious, gentle person and a charming hostess. She was a painter of considerable skill and her oil paintings and water-colours, mostly of marine subjects, adorn the walls of the library and the drawing room. The Villiers had two sons but both pre-deceased them Their only grandson, Stephen, who lives in England, recently visited Sri Lanka with a BBC team for the preparation of a feature on Adisham. Sir Thomas retired to Kent and died on December 21, 1959. In 1949, after Sir Thomas left George Steuarts, Adisham and its furniture, fittings and other effects were sold to the Sedawatte Mills. In 1961 the Roman Catholic Church acquired Adisham with its 12 acre grounds and turned it into a monastery and novitiate run by the priests of the Congregation of St Sylvester, a missionary order that came to Ceylon in the 1840s. Today, the spirit of Sir Thomas and Lady Villiers linger in their living rooms kept in impeccable order by the Sylvestrines. The libooks and its cases of polished oak, is meticulously orderly even though the Regency clock on the mantelpiece of the handsome fireplace, with its gleaming fire-irons, has stopped ticking. A long line of the Dukes of Bedford look down from the walls and one gets the feeling that any minute Sir Thomas might come in, calling to his dogs.
Bird sanctuary
The drawing room has been preserved in every detail. David Paynter`s study of Sir Thomas, looks down from above the William IV furniture which is polished even if the Lancashire broadloom on the chairs and the Ax Minster carpets have aged gently. On the Dutch marquetry card-table is a half-finished game of Patience and the Georgian gate-legged table is set for tea with Wedgewood jasper china. The rustle you hear is not the swish of silk dresses on the beautifully kept grand staircase it is just the wind sighing in the forest trees. Outside the morning room the terrace looks out over the sunny lawns, rioting with a hundred varieties of roses. A signboard near the gate reminds you that if you can`t find happiness along the way, you will not find it at the end of the road. One of Adisham`s most wonderful sights is its natural bird sanctuary. Brilliantly plumaged orange mini-verts, green barbets, blue magpies, paradise flycatchers, hornbills, golden oreoles and a host of others which live in the forested slopes of the nature reserve above Adisham swoop down to feast on apple and plum trees.
Today`s Adisham is primarily a monastery, where a small community of six novices and a few monks follow a schedule of prayer, meditation, work and service. Adisham has made itself famous for fine products such as strawberry jam, orange marmalade, wild guava jelly and fresh fruit cordials.
When Adisham was purchased, the priests found half-wild strawberries, Seville oranges and guavas from the original Villiers orchards, which they developed and extended. The priests as well as a few villagers work in the orchards, vegetable gardens, and dairy and in the processing of produce.
The day begins early for the novices and priests when the rising bell tolls at 05.30 hours in the mist covered dawn. If is always chilly and, from November to January when the north-east monsoon howls down the Tangamalai wind-gap, freezing. The gong sounds for muster for tea-estate labourers on neighbouring Glenanore Estate when the priests kneel in prayer and meditation in the little chapel adorned with an image of St Benedict.
Spiritual experience
Breakfast is at 0800 hrs and is wholesome and home grown: It is served, like all meals, in the plain and austere refectory. Two hours of silence, contemplation and study follow. Next come two hours of manual work in the orchards, flower and kitchen gardens, dairy, house, laundry or kitchen. Prayer at the chapel is followed by a lunch of rice and spicy curries with fresh vegetables from the gardens. A period of recreation follows, when a sense of humour and a cheerful heart are encouraged. An hour`s manual work, a short break for tea, silence, prayer, studies, more prayer, dinner, recreation, study and then, after 2230 hrs the great silence of the monastery reigns. From their bedroom windows, the brothers can see the mist swirling round the Sleeping Warrior. On clear, moonlit nights, the view is stunning and heaven seems within touching distance.
Although it should be emphasised that Adisham is not in any way a commercial guest-house nor a Villiers museum open to casual callers, accommodation is available for 12 guests. It would suit people appreciative of a Christian spiritual experience, counsel and guidance, in a place of surpassing peace, solitude and beauty. The large rooms are comfortable and have some of the best mountain views in Sri Lanka. The food (three main meals and afternoon tea) is simple but excellent and the atmosphere edifying and serene.
Guests should not expect hotel amusements and are expected to be considerate of the rules of the community. Prior written notice and booking are essential.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
THE NATURE OF SRILANKA: water falls in uva province srilanka
THE NATURE OF SRILANKA: water falls in uva province srilanka: BAMBARAKANDA WATER FALL Bambarakanda is considered the tallest waterfal in Srilanka with a located 4km away from the Kaluphana weerakoo...
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Dunhinda Water Falls
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There are two main folklores around the formation of the Dunhinda Falls. One is that there were two lovers who deeply loved each other in a village called Kosgalla near by Dunhinda long time ago. The two lovers were demanded either to be separated or to be produced before the court by the rest. It wasn’t possible for both lovers to be separated. So they decided to hurl themselves downward the cliff which the Dunhinda Falls pours down now. They went to the top and committed suicide. That night amazing thing happened. A massive storm arrived to the village destroying all the villages and animals. There after the river flew hotly and the Dunhinda formed. It’s believed that the mournful crying voice of Menik Bandara (The Boy) still can be heard through the wind.
Dunhinda Water Falls
Dunhinda is the pride of Badulla and Sri Lanka s loveliest and most dramatic waterfall and 200 ft in height. This is a part of the "Maha weli" rever system, carrying down the waters of Badulu oya. According to the folk history of Badulla, there was a time when the whole area, which is now the Badulla valley, was inundated due to the rever being blocked by a Wild creeper which had grown where the Dunhinda begins it s drop. The king of that time gave a commission to a subject to have the creeper removed and save the valley. The task took three months and saw the birth of the waterfall and the safety of the valley.
Ddaunhin Falls At 63 metres, the Dunhinda Falls is the highest waterfall on the Badulu Oya, a river that rises in the mountains on the border of the Uva highlands and flows into the Mahaweli Ganga. Some say this is the most awe-inspiring waterfall in Sri Lanka. Certainly it looks impressive, with its water roaring over a rocky ledge and falling with clouds of spray into a large pool in the rocks below. And therein lies the name of these falls, for dunhinda in Sinhala means spraying or vapor waterfall. The Dunhinda Falls are located 5 km north of Badulla on the Badulla - Taldena Road. From the main road, with its fine views of the Badulu Oya valley, there is a 1-kilometre path to the waterfall. This path in fact follows the course of the Badulu Oya, which flows at the bottom of the valley through dense forest. Although clearly defined, this path is sometimes rocky, and so suitable footwear should be worn. There is a good observation spot at the end of the path. Close to the fall is an ancient cave, once the home of Veddas from Bintenne.
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