Galle "Gaul", and Sinhalese IPA: [ɡaːlːə]) is a city located on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka 0.119 km from Colombo. Galle was known as Gimhathiththa before the arrival of the Portuguese in the Horn of 16th, when it was the main port on the island. Galle reached the height of its development in the Horn of 18th, during the Dutch colonial period. The main river is the River Ganges Gin Gin, which starts from Gongala Kanda and passing villages such as Neluwa, Nagoda, Baddegama, Thelikada, Wakwella and kisses the sea in Ginthota. In Wakwella over the river there Wakwella bridge is the longest bridge in Sri Lanka.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Monday, September 22, 2014
Trincomalee in Sri Lanka
Trincomalee is a natural port city on the east coast of Sri Lanka, about 110 kilometers north-east of Kandy. The city was built on a peninsula, which divides the internal and external ports. It is one of the main centers of Tamil speaking culture on the island. Historically, the name referred Gokanna, or Gokarna it was the seaport, which played a major role in the history of maritime and international trade in Sri Lanka.
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Knuckles Range in Sri Lanka
Mountain chain joints located in the center of Sri Lanka, to the northeast of the city of Kandy. Group takes its name from a series of recumbent folds and peaks in the west of the massif which resemble the fingers of the fist when viewed from certain locations in the Kandy district. While this name has been set by the British surveyors in the early Sinhalese population and are usually referred to the region Dumbara Kanduvetiya means fog Laden mountain range (Cooray, 1984).
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Kalkudah Beach in Sri Lanka
Kalkudah or Kalkuda (pronounced Cal-Koda, Tamil translator Rock Bay) is a coastal city located resort about 35 kilometers northwest of Batticaloa district of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. It used to be a popular tourist destination, but due to the decreased number of tourists in 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean and the Sri Lankan civil war. Located Pasikudah and Kalkudah few kilometers from each other.
Friday, September 19, 2014
Jaffna in Sri Lanka
Jaffna or Yazhpanam is the capital of the Northern Territory, and Sri Lanka. Most of the residents of Jaffna are Sri Lankan Tamils with the Sri Lankan Portuguese and Moroccan citizens.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Ella Tourist Place in Sri lanka
Ella is blessed with some of the most beautiful views, you could find in Sri Lanka.
Only 8 km from Bandarawela, is the use of this small town as a base for many of the campaigns trips to the surrounding countryside.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Bundala National Park in Sri Lanka
Located about fifteen kilometers east of Hambantota Bundala National Park is one of the destinations in Sri Lanka before everything for birdwatchers, protecting an important area of coastal wetlands land famous for its abundant water (and other) birds. The park is also home to large numbers of elephants and crocodiles estuaries and marshes, turtles and other animals, including the tiger.
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