Sri Pada season in Sri Lanka began.

The annual season to visit Sri Pada, the most sacred mountain in Sri Lanka, began on 27th December 2012, the Unduwap Poya Day. The annual season starts from full moon (Poya Day) of December and end on the Vesak Poya Day, full moon of May. All the arrangements for the season have been made and sacred relics will be brought to the top of the Peak today, said Ven Bengamuve Dhammadinna Thero of the Sri Pada Temple. A series of religious...

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Sri Lanka tourist arrivals reach record high in November

Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals rose 20.1 percent to a record high in November this year compared to the same period last year, the data released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) showed. The month recorded 109,202 tourists arriving in the country compared to the 90,889 arrived in November 2011. Arrivals during the first eleven months of the year increased 16.5 percent to 883,353 from the 758,458 arrived in the same period...

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Beautifull Pictures of Sri Lanka

Hathmale Falls - Deniyaya Horton Plains  Laxapana Falls Patanangala Beach - Yala National Park National Botanical Garden - Peradeniya Reverstan Peak - Knuckles Mountain Range Bambarakanda Falls  Bomburu Ella - Welimada Bopath Ella - Kuruwita, Ratnapura Nilaveli Beach National Botanical Garden - Peradeniya...

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Divaguhawa found

වසර 2593 කට පෙර බුදුන් වැඩ සිටි දිවාගුහාව සොයා ගැනීමට හැකි වූ බව ශ‍්‍රි පාදස්ථානාධිපති බෙන්ගමුවේ ධම්මදින්න නායක හිමියෝ පැවසූහ. දිවාගුහාව බුදුන් වහන්සේ ශ‍්‍රිපාදස්ථානයට වැඩම කළ අවස්ථාවේ දිවා විවරණ ලැබු ස්ථානය බව පැවසේ. ශි‍්‍ර පාද පත්මයට මීටර් 100ක් පමණ පහළින් පිහිටා ඇති දිවාගුහාව තුළ සෙල්ලිපියක් හා නිශ්ශංකමල්ල රජුගේ ශෛලමය රුවක්ද ඇත. සෙල් ලිපියේ නිශ්ශංකමල්ල රජු ශ‍්‍රි පාදය කරුණා කිරිමට පැමිණි බව සදහන් වේ. බුදුන් වහන්සේ සමනොල ගිරට වැඩි අවස්ථාවේ සුමන...

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We Go Sri Lanka HD

Dima Viper & Max kegfire This is a short video of our trip to Sri Lanka this year. We visited: Colombo, Anuradhapura, Unawatuna, Dikwella, Polonnaruwa, Sygiria, Hikkaduwa, Tangalle, Galle Fort, Kandy, Sri Pada (Adam's Peak), Nuwara Eliya and mo...

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National Museum of Colombo

National Museum of Colombo The Colombo Museum as it was called at the beginning was established on 1st January 1877. It founder was Sir William Henry Gregory, the British Governor of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) at the time. The Royal Asiatic Society (CB) was instrumental in bringing to the notice of Gregory on his appointment as Governor in 1872 the need for a public museum with much difficulty the approval of the legislative council was obtained within...

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National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka - Dehiwala

Like any zoo, the goal of the Dehiwala Zoo is the preservation and conservation of various forms of animal life. 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...

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