Kumana National Park

In Sri lanka located at the southern corner, from sri lanka main city almost 400 KM distance you can reach well known bird sanctuary place. It has closely 18,200 hectare territory.   

Kumana National Park

Because of sri lanka rebel tigers, it has been close much time. Fortunately, excellence of sri lanka MR, Mahinda rajapaksha won rebel war. After then this most famous and most beautiful place has been open really for us and our new generation. We must thankful our excellence

 

This national park there is the most significant place is kumana villu. Actually, kumana villu is nearly spread 200 hectares natural lake.  This lake fed by kumbukkan oya. In this national park, main attractions are Birds, Elephants and Leopards.

Past year's kumana had a village. Those people of the village have shifted from Mahaweli project area. 

BOPATH ELLA

                               bopath ella
Bopath Ella waterfalls is at Rathnapura Sri Lanka and 30m height.
The Bopath ella cascades in the shape of a bo (Ficus religiosa) tree (hence its name) and is the most comprehensively studied fall in Sri Lanka. Its source is the Kurugana River that later joins the Kaluganga River at Kurugaomaodara.  
The Bopath Ella is situated at a driving distance from Colombo. Just drive for 3 hours from Colombo and you will reach your desired location. You will have to travel along the Colombo-Ratnapura highway and take a turn at the Higasthenna junction. From here you will have to further continue along the Agalawatte road up to Devapahala village to reach the site
                                            
                                                                                                      Bopath Ella is one of the main tourist’s attractions in Sri Lanka which mesmerizes tourists with its spectacular scenes.

DEHIWELA ZOO

                  DEHIWELA ZOO
National Zoological Garden situated only 9.5 kilometres from Colombo City
Dehiwala Zoo (also called Colombo Zoo or National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka) is a zoological garden in Dehiwala, Sri Lanka, founded in 1936.                
The zoo was originally started by John Hargenberg who collected and kept animals at the same site of the current zoo which was then under his ownership. Hargenberg also exported animals back to Europe for his brother who was a prominent animal dealer at the time. 
                                                                           A large number of diverse animals can be found here including a 100 species of mammals, 110 species of birds and 35 species of reptiles. Also housed here are various fish, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies and marine invertebrates.  
                   
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THUPARAMA DAGABA

     

  

Thuparamaya іs а dagoba іn Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. Іt іs а Buddhist sacred place оf veneration.
Mahinda Thera, аn envoy sent by King Ashoka himself introduced Theravada Buddhism аnd аlsо chetiya worship tо Sri Lanka. Аt hіs request King Devanampiyatissa built Thuparamaya іn whіch wаs enshrined the collarbone оf the Buddha. Іt іs considered tо be the fіrst dagaba built іn Sri Lanka following the introduction оf Buddhism. Thіs іs considered the earliest monument, the construction оf whіch wаs chronicled Sri Lanka. The name Thuparamaya comes frоm "stupa" аnd "aramaya" whіch іs а residential complex fоr monks.
Thuparamaya dagoba has been built іn the shape оf а heap оf paddy.   This dagaba was destroyed from time to time. During the reign of King Agbo II it was completely destroyed and the King restored it. What we have today is the construction of the dagaba, done in 1862 AD. As it is today, after several renovations, in the course of the centuries, the monument has a diameter of 59 ft (18 m), at the base. The dome is 11 feet 4 inches (3.45 m) in height from the ground, 164½ ft (50.1 m) in diameter. The compound is paved with granite and there are 2 rows of stone pillars round the dagaba. During the early period vatadage was built round the dagaba.
                                                                                                        

 

BELLANVILA RAJAMAHA VIHARAYA

             BELLANWILA RAJAMAHA VIHARAYA

Situated in the outskirts of the city of Colombo, in the village of Bellanwila, just three kilometers from the city limits, Bellanwila temple has a long and hallowed history. The great sanctity attached to the temple is due to its sacred Bodhi-tree. There is authorative literary evidence in ancient texts such as the Sinhala Bodhivamsaya which records that this Bodhi-tree is one of the thirty two saplings that sprang from the sacred Bodhi-tree at Anuradhapura planted in the 3rd century B.C.E.   
                                                                                           The entrance of the temple is beautifully created with a Makara Thorana. The modern image house of the temple is built after the architecture of Jetawana image house Polonnaruwa. It houses several gigantic Buddha statues representing standing, meditation and reclining postures. Standing Buddha statue is measured to be 18 meters in height and a copy of Aukana Buddha statue. The reclining Buddha statue follows the architecture of Galvihara and it is 27 meters long. Large number of paintings in the image hose represents the incidents of Buddha’s life, important incidents of Sri Lanka history, and the history of temple as well as incidents noted in Mahawamsa. The image house houses number of other figures of several Kings namely Devanampiyatissa, Dutugemunu, Parakramabahu, Vijayabahu, NIssanka Malla and Parakrama Bahu 6^th      
                                                                                                           

Its history shrouded by the mist of time, gets a little clearer by about the 15th century, when Kotte not far away from Bellanwila, became the capital under the reign of King Parakramabahu VI (1412-1476). But the subjugation of the maritime provinces by the Portuguese, in the latter part of the 17th century, adversely affected Buddhism in the region, and these circumstances made Bellanwila temple to go into oblivion again.

          
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NAGADEEPAYA

        NAGADEEPAYA

Half the enjoyment of a pilgrimage to Nagadeepa is actually getting there. The road from Jaffna runs across a long causeway to the island of Kayts from where another causeway leads to Punkudutivu. The landscape is flat and sandy, dotted with numerous palm trees and completely different from everywhere else in Sri Lanka. On the far side of this second island one must take a boat to Nainativ where there are two jetties, one at the Hindu temple and another at Nagadeepa Vihara. If most of the passengers are Hindus the boat stops at the former and if most are Buddhists it stops at the latter. Public and private buses run regularly from Jaffna to Punkudutivu and the boat is timed to leave just after the bus arrives. The total distance from Jaffna is 30 km. At the time of writing it was possible to get to Nagadvipa but this may change as the political situation changes.

 The Nagadeepa Purana Rajamaha Viharaya is a shining example of inter racial harmony in Sri lanka and this had been improved at various stages and ever since it has become the most sanctified place of worship by the devotees.Nainativ is one of the smallest inhabited islands in the Gulf of Mannar and is only about 35 miles from India. Merchants have long come here and the surrounding islands to buy the conch shells that are harvested in the warm shallow waters in the Gulf.
 
                       
             


The Nagadeepa Purana Rajamaha Viharaya is one of the sixteen most sacred places of worship by the Buddhists in Sri Lanka. Pilgrims have been coming to the Nagadeepa since about the 1st century AC to worship at its famous Rajayathana stupa. The Rajayathana stupa was constructed by two warring Naga kings, Chulodara and Mahodara, at the site where Lord Buddha during His second visit to the country on a Bak Maha Amawaka Poya Day, five years after attaining Enlightenment, intervened and mediated in settling a dispute over the possession of a gem-studded throne. The precious throne was offered to the lord Buddha, was returned to the Naga Kings and was later enshrined in this Rajayathana stupa. 

PINNAWELA ORPHANAGE

     PINNAWELA ORPHANAGE

Pinnawela orphanage is situated in Rambukkana, northwest of the town Kegalla, halfways between the present capitol Colombo and the ancient royal residence Kandy in the hills of central Sri Lanka. It was established 1975 by the Sri Lanka Wildlife department. This 24 acres large elephant orphanage is a also breeding pace for elephants, the first elephant baby was born in 1984, and it has the greatest herd of elephants in captivity in the world. Between 1975 and 2012, 67 animals were born here.
                                                                                                                                  Elephants are magnificent land animals, with a thick skin and a curved trunk. Watching these gigantic wild, semi wild mammals is a lifetime experience. Sri Lanka has considerable number of the world’s elephant population. Visitors can enjoy watching wild elephants in wildlife parks such as Yala, Wasgamuwa, Udawalawa, Habarana and Mineriya      
 
             Elephants are orphaned for a number of reasons. Habitat destruction and fragmentation is one of the main causes resulting from irrigation projects, development of industries, agricultural projects and human encroachment. Elephants have lost over 30% of their natural wild habitat. Other reasons for elephants becoming orphaned include hunting for tusks (although there is little of this in Sri Lanka compared to other countries around the globe), humans catching wild elephants for taming and domesticating and lastly due to the Human - Elephant conflict, which is rife in Sri Lanka. This occurs when elephants encroach on farm land to find food. The result is that 150-200 elephants are killed a year and around 60 people die.