Waterfalls

Waterfalls are water systems in which water falls from a height into another water body at the base. They may be natural or artificial. Waterfalls are very aesthetically appealing and regarded as tourist spots. Several huge natural waterfalls are responsible for running the entire economies of the settlements around them by attracting tourists. People also construct artificial waterfalls in their backyards or gardens, or even indoors, to avail of their scenic beauty and soothing sounds.

Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest natural waterfall of the world. It falls from a drop of 3,230 feet. The Cinema Natural Park is built around it and it mainly attracts tourists because of Angel Falls.

In order to partake of some of this beauty, people have begun building waterfalls in their own gardens and backyards. Building artificial waterfalls is an age-old Japanese art, which has now taken many modern twists. Waterfalls are built of rock or stone. There are artificial foam and pumice stones available, which are used for building waterfall cascades. Even copper and slate are used for building waterfalls. Artificial waterfalls need a submersible pump unit and a base for receiving water. The base can be designed as a pond with fishes and aquatic life in it. Waterfalls automatically attract various birds and butterflies, thus adding to their visual appeal.
Indoor waterfalls are also becoming popular. These are made of a variety of materials such as copper, slate, stone and fiberglass, and they may be wall-mounted or tabletop. Water can be made to flow through thin transparent glass sheets and used as a partition for offices or bars. There are infinite possibilities to customize a waterfall.

Hotels build waterfalls around their pools or construct whole waterfall gardens. Different colored bulbs can be placed strategically in the waterfall to give the effect of colored water. Metal tubes and pipes are also effectively used to produce calming reverberating water sounds.
Waterfalls are mainly built for their visual appeal, but some people, especially in Asia, believe in the supernatural powers of a waterfall. Feng Shui and Vaastu experts believe that having a system of flowing water in the house creates dynamism indicative of progress. In fact, in Asia people who can afford to design their living rooms with a waterfall in them.

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දිනය1:      කොලඹ - බරණැස

බෝධි පූජාව ,බරණැස  නව මූලගන්ධකුටි විහාරයේ පැවත්වෙන දම්සක් පැවතුම් සූත්‍ර සජ්ගායනාවට සහභාගි වීම
   

දිනය2:      බරණැස   

සම්මුඛ දාගැබ,අනගාරික කෞතුකාගාරය, රාම් නගරයේපිහිටි බ්‍රහ්මදත්ත මාලිගය නැරඹිම,සාරානාත් කෞතුකගාරය,ධම්මරාජික ස්තූපය නරඹීම,දම්සභා මණ්ඩපය ,පැරණි මූලගන්ධ කුටිය,ධම්මික ස්ථූපය,සිංහ මුහුණු 4 සහිත අශෝක ස්ථම්භය ඇතුලු සියලු ස්ථාන.


දිනය3:      බරණැස -අග්‍රා   

බරණැස සිට අග්‍රා දක්වා ගමන් කිරීම.

දිනය4:       අග්‍රා-  සංකස්ස   

ටජ්මහල්නැරඹීම,රතු බලකොටුව බසයේ සිටපෙන් වීම,දේවාවරෝහන මහා විහාරය වන්දනාකිරිම,තව්තිසා දෙව්ලොව සිට  බුදුරදුන් රන් ඉනිමගකින් පොළවට වැඩම කළස්ථානය,අශෝක ස්ථම්භය.

දිනය5:        සංකස්ස- සැවත්නුවර   

ගමනේ යෙදීම හා දිනයේ වැඩසටහන ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම,සැවත්නුවර ගණ්ධබ්භ රුක්ඛ මූලය, අනාථපිණ්ඩික සිටුමැදුර, අංගුලිමාල දගැබ වන්දනාකිරීම.


දිනය6:        සැවත්නුවර   

සැවැත්නුවර ශ්‍රි ලංකාරාමයේ චිංචි මානවිකාව හා දෙව්දත් අපාගත වූ ස්ථානනැරඹීම,සීලසමාදානය,සාංඝීක දානය,අටපිරිකර පූජාව,ගන්ධ කුටිය,දම්සභාමණ්ඩපය,ඇතුලු ජේතවනාරාමයට අයත් සියලුම ස්ථාන,ආනන්ද බෝධින් වහන්සේ  අභියස වන්දනා,ධාතුප්‍රදර්ශනය.

දිනය7:        සැවත්නුවර- කිඹුල්වත් පුරය

නේපාලය  සුද්ධෝදන රජ මාලිගාව,නීග්‍රෝධාරාමය,ධාතු ස්ථුපය,මහාමායාපොකුණ,බෝසත් කුමරු ඉපදුන ස්ථානය,අශෝක ස්ථම්භය,ශ්‍රි ලංකාරාමය.

දිනය8 :       නේපාලය-  කුසිනාරාව   

පිරිණිවන්මංචකය,ධාතු ස්ථුපය,බුදුරදුන් පිරිණිවන් පෑ නියම ස්ථානය,බුදු ශ්‍රි දේහයතැබූ වේදිකාව,  බුදුන් වහන්සේ අවසන් වරට පැන්වැළදූ ස්ථානය,ආදාහනමළුව,ද්‍රෝන බමුණා සර්වඥ ධාතු බෙදූ ස්ථානය.

දිනය9:      කුසිනාරාව- විසාලා

ධාතු ස්ථුපය,කූටාගාර ශාලාව,රාජාභිශේක පොකුණ,අම්බපාලී දාගැබ,විසාලා ශ්‍රි ලංකා පන්සල,තනි සිංහ රූප ස්ථුපය.

දිනය10:      විසාලා - නාලාන්දා- රාජ්ගීර්-  ගයා

නාලාන්දා විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය,විඩුඩව ගැල් එරුන තැන්,බිම්බිසාර රජ සිර මැදිරිය,වාලසංඝාඨය,මහා කශ්‍යප ලෙන,සප්ත පර්ණී ගල් ගුහාව,ජීවක අඹවනය,ජපන් සාමදාගැබ,ගිජුකූට පර්වතය,බෝසතුන් දුශ්කර ක්‍රියා කල ලෙන,සුජාතාවන් කිරි පිඩුපූජා කල ස්ථානය,සොත්තිය බමුණා කුසතන පුජා කලස්ථානය.

දිනය11:        ගයා    

සීලසමාදානය,කිරි පිඬූ පූජා පෙරහැර,අටපිරිකර පූජාව සහිත සාංඝීකදානය,උපාසකදානය,ජය ශ්‍රි මහා බෝධින් වහන්සේ අසල,බෝධි පූජාව හා අගමික කටයුතු.



දිනය12 :       ගයා-  කොලඹ  

අළුයම ගයා ගුවන් තොටුපලින් ලංකාවට පැමිණීම.

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Sinharajaya

Today, the spirit of the legend remains captured in solitude in the silent forest and the rising mist of the early dawn. More than time however separate modern explorer in the Sinharaja forest from its legendary inhabitations, man has rapidly penetrated the seemingly inaccessible wildness of the Sri Lanka’s rain forest which once covered perhaps over 100,000ha.Of the south western hills and lowlands. The present reserve is but a glimpse of its former glory, occupying a narrow silver of land 21km. in length and 3.7km.in width, covering 11187 ha. Of undisturbed and logged forest, scrub reserve by UNESCO in 1978, then a national wilderness Area in 1988 under the national heritage wilderness Area act no. 3 of 1988 and subsequently a world heritage site in 1988.

FLORA

The vegetation of Sinharaja may be described either as tropical lowland rain forest or tropical wet evergreen forest. The most striking characteristics of the forest are the loftiness of the dominant tree, the straightness of their bole, the abundance of regeneration and the diversity of species. the average height of the trees very between 35 to 40metres. Some individuals rise to 50metres. Out of 25 genera endemic to Sri Lanka 13 are represented in Sinharaja.

FAUNA
There is a high degree of endemism among the butterflies, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. 95% of the endemic birds of Sri Lanka have been record in Sinharaja.

BANDURA
(Insect Trapper-nepenthes distillatoria)

The “pitcher plant “locally known as bandura, family nepenthaceae is a creeper on shrub and treelets. The leaf tip modified to form and elongated sac (a pitcher) filled with a liquid which traps insect to be digested by the plaint. The thickened stem of the plant is used for tying, in the construction of wattle and daub houses and ladders by the natives. Usually grow along forest margins and disturbed sites.

Kahibella

Endemic & Threatened Birds in Sri Lanka
Local name: Ceylon blue magpie

Sri lanka blue magpie –urocissa ornate. This beautiful endemic bird is most appropriately called locally as “kahibella” meaning beautiful damsel of the forest according to some etymologists it is a social species living in small groups of 4-6 individuals out side the breeding season. During the breeding season the pairs move out but remain not far away from the rest of its social members. They feed mainly on insects ,small lizards etc. its distribution is confined to the forest away from human habitations.

Snakes of Kannaliya

36 species of snakes, including 17 endemic forms, belonging to six families have been recorded from kannaliya. Within the reserve, a higher diversity of reptile fauna is found in the middle kannaliya areas. Those included Blind snakes, Shield tailed snakes, Python and Boas, Cobras, Vipers and many more. Dumutu Kanaulla, , Pimbura, Pala polanga Thith Polanga, Kunakatuwa and especial of them Depath naya.

Several species of colubrids are usually encountered in the Narangas Ella, Anagimal Ella and Kabbale kanda nature trails, the grebe whip snake being the most common snake. Other common species includes Bonze-back snakes and rough-side snakes.

Checklist of snakes recorded from KannaliyaBlind snakes (Family Typhlopidae)Ramphotyphlops braminus - common blind snake - Dumutu kanaulla

Shield-tailed snakes (Family Uropeltidae)Cylindrophis maculata Pipe snake Depath nayaRhinophis blythii Blyth’s earth snake GomarathudullaUropeltis melanogaster Gray’s earth snake kaluwakatulla

Python and Boas (Family Boidae)Python molurus Indian python Pimbura

Cobras, Kraits & coral snakes (Family Elapidae)Bungarus ceylonicus Sri Lankan krait Mudu karawalaNaja naja Indian cobra Naya
Vipers & Pit vipers (Family Viperidae)Daboia russelii Russell’s viper Tith polongaHypnale hypnale Merrem’s hump-nosed kunakatuwaviper PolonthelissaHypnale nepa Millard’s hump-nosed Mukalan thelissviperTrimeresurus trigonocephala Green pit viper Pala polonga

Sri Lanka Paradise

Sri Lanka is an island, 65,610 km in area situated close to the Southeast corner of the peninsula of India. Despite its relatively small size, Sri Lanka possessed a high level of biodiversity. This site provides information, galleries, on Sri Lankan Environment, Biodiversity, environmental issues and tourism.

Tour of Kannaliya Forest Reserve

North Country rain forest of Sri Lanka is the best of bio diversity. Our rain forest has been included in the midst of best 18 rain forests in the world by the Norman Mayer. Kannaliya is one of these rain forests.

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Tour of Sinharaja

Sinharaja is a real paradise of Sri Lanka. That is thing that you wondered is over 50% of endemic species of fauna are living in Sinharaja Tropical rain forest. There are about 282 birds are recorded in Sinharaja out of 384 in Sri Lanka. It is 73%. Most of species who are endemic to Sri Lanka can be seen on Sinharaja. Reptiles, birds butterflies, fishes, amphibians and mammals are major fauna types.

The forest is steeped in deep legend and mystery the word sinharaja means , lion(sinha) king(raja) and the popular beliefs is that the legendary origin of the sinharaja people in Sri Lanka is from the descendant of the union the lion king who once lived in the forest and a princess.

Tour of Sigiri rock

Sigiriya, the spectacular 'Lion rock' fortress, stands majestically overlooking the luscious green jungle surroundings, and is one of Sri Lanka's major attractions.This was built by King Kasyapa, a son of King Dhatusena, by a palace consort. As legend goes, King Dhatusena was overthrown and walled in, alive by Kasyapa in 473 AD. Mogallana, Dhatusena's son by the true queen fled to India, vowing revenge.
Kasyapa fearing an invasion built this impregnable fortress at Sigiriya.