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Upper Galdola Ella is a small and beautiful waterfall lying on the picturesque Rakwana – Sooriyakanda road in Ratnapura District. This rather unknown waterfall lies just beside the road before the famous 10 elbow bends traveling from Rakwana.

Bowala Ratu Ambalama (බෝවල රතු අම්බලම)
Continuing the ancient tradition, this Ambalama has been built and completed on 9th July 1937 in memory of Uduwaralle H. M. Kiribanda Loku Nilame who died in 1937. The Building is a square structure built using brick and mortar with 2 pillars in front. The rear is wall with curved top creating space for ventilation. The two sides are covered in half height walls. The front half wall too has a curving top edge. […]
Ambepussa Tholangamuwa Ambalama (අඹේපුස්ස තෝලංගමුව අම්බලම)
Tholangamuwa Ambalama is a brick and mortar rectangular structure with 4 brick pillars holding the roof and 2 wooden pillars at the entrance. A short wall is built around the ambalama and the top half is exposed. The roof is tiled with clay calicut tiles (Rata Ulu). The ambalama is built at the road elevation. […]
Ambulugala Ambalama (අම්බුළුගල අම්බලම)
The Amblama lying close to the Ambulugala Viharaya could be old as the temple. Seven pillars hold roof of the structure. Out of which five are stone pillars and other two concrete. In 2019, this ambalama was completely disassembled and the repaired. Parts of stone pillars which had damages has been removed and completed in concrete. […]
Thunthota Alawala Ambalama (තුංතොට අලවල අම්බලම)
Thunthota Alawala Ambalama is built with 4 pillars holding the roof and 2 wooden pillars at the entrance. The structure stands alone a land covered in tall grass and weed growing all over. […]
Uduwawala Ambalama in Katugastota – කටුගස්තොට උඩුවාවල අම්බලම
Uduwawala is small town between Katuagastota and Medawala in the Kandy Distinct. A small ancient Ambalama (wayside rest) lies on the Uduwawala Junction on the Katuagastota - Medawala road partly functioning as a Bus Stop. […]
Gampaha Kehelella Ambalama (ගම්පහ කෙහෙල්ඇල්ල අම්බලම)
This Ambalama at Kehelella is made of brick and mortar. Although this design is not unique in artistic quality, it is unique as an Ambalama, a part of the extended ancient ambalama network across the country and a record of ancient hospitality extended to unknown visitors traveling through the village. […]
Rata Wate – A Road Trip Around Sri Lanka
A dream trip for most travel fans are to travel around Sri Lanka in a single trip using the coastal roads of Sri Lanka. The plan was to travel on roads closest to the coast around the country. […]
Covering Ampara & Trincomalee in Five Days
It was December holidays again we decided to have a family trip and we opted to cover part of the East this time. On a Friday I made some calls to two friends at Ampara and Trinco and got 2 hotels booked. This was intended to be a road trip with time to rest in between. […]
වාහල්කඩ D4 වෙහෙරගල රජමහා විහාරය (Vahalkada D4 Veheragala Rajamaha Viharaya)
වළගම්බා රාජ සමයේදී ඉදිකොටඇතැයි විශ්වාස කෙරෙන මෙම වාහල්කඩ D4 වෙහෙරගල රජමහා විහාරය 2019 වර්ෂයේදී ඉදිකරනලද විහාරස්තානයට පිවිසෙන වාහල්කඩ දොරටුව දක්මෙන්ම මෙය පුරාන විහාරස්ථානයක් බව මාහට හැඟීගියා. විහාරස්ථානයට ඇතුළුවූ පසු නූතන විහාරාංගයන්ගෙන් සමන්විත 'විහාර භූමියක්' දැකගන්නට පුළුවන්. […]
A Two Day Trip With No Destination (හිස හැරුණු අතේ දින 2ක්)
The trip was scheduled with one of my friends from university and usual we planned to have no plan other than the duration this time would be just 2 days. By the end of the 2 days, we had visited 14 places and travelled 900 kilometers […]
Ancient Minipe (Manimekhala) Amuna over Mahaweli – පැරණි මිණිපේ (මනිමේඛලා) අමුණ
The Pabbatahata Ela now identified as the Minipe Canal is the product of the the great reservoir builder, king Mahasen (276-303 CE). According to chronicles he has built 16 large scale reservoirs out of which 8 has been already identified. However the Minipe Dam has been built later by king Aggabodhi I (575-608 CE) […]
Matale Haththota Amuna – මාතලේ හත්තොට අමුණ
Haththota Amuna (Hattota Amuna) is an ancient weir (anicut) with 46 km long feeder channel constructed across the Kalu Ganga, a tributary of Amban Ganga near Pallegama during the reign of Aggabodhi II (608-618 A.C.) […]
Panda Wewa – The First man made Reservoir in the World – ලොව මුල්ම අංග සම්පුර්ණ වැව වන පඬාවැව සහ එහි නටබුණ්
Panda wewa, lying close to the ancient kingdom of Panduwasnuwara is believed to be the oldest man made reservior in the world built by King Panduwasdeva (504-474 BC) in 450 BC for irrigation as well as for daily use by the citizens of Panduwasnuwara. […]
Mangalagama Bodhimalakarama Tampita Viharaya – මංගලගම බෝධිමාලකාරාම ටැම්පිට විහාරය
Mangalagama is an ancient village in Sri Lanka known for 2 landmarks, one is the historic Bodhimalakaramaya Tampita Viharaya and and the other is the Mangalagama Ambalama which lies right next to the road. […]
Wakirigala Abeysundararama Tampita Rajamaha Viharaya – වාකිරිගල අභයසුන්දරාරාම ටැම්පිට රජමහා විහාරය
The history of the Wakirigala Abeysundararama Tampita Viharaya goes back to the time of Polonnaruwa kingdom where prince Vijayabahu fortified himself after failing his first attempt to defeat the Chola invaders from Polonnaruwa […]

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