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Samanalakanda, Sri Pada or Adam’s peak in history

Samanalakanda, Sri Pada or Adam’s peak in history

Written on May 23, 2019 in Adventure Sports

Samanalakanda, rising to 2243m or 7362’ is in the Ratnapura District of the Sabaragamuva Province. Perhaps, there is no other mountain in the world, as famous as Sripada, and so extensively referred to, down the ages, in various literatures, as Adam’s Peak. Traditional belief among Sinhala Buddhists is that the peak holds the footprint of Gauta...

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Lion’s Mouth - Kadugannwa is an overhanging rock that is found along a bend in the railway between Balana and Kadugannawa

Through the Lion’s Mouth – Kadugannawa

Written on May 22, 2019 in Adventure Sports

Lion’s Mouth is an overhanging rock that is found along a bend in the railway between Balana and Kadugannawa, that earned its unique name due to its resemblance to the face of lion. As the train takes the bend under the Lion’s Mouth, a steep drop into the valley below is visible as a most memorable locations – the Lion’s Mouth, a distinctiv...

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Kadadora Sri Piya Bimbaramaya temple

Kadadora Viharaya : Rising from the water

Written on April 26, 2019 in Adventure Sports

Locals and foreigners have been arriving in their numbers at the Kadadora area to visit the ancient ruins of Buddhist temples re-emerging from the depths of the Kotmale reservoir as water levels are receding fast due to the prevailing drought in the central hills. The ruins of the Kadadora Sri Piya Bimbaramaya temple which was submerged when the re...

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