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Kumana National Park alias Yala East

3/6/2018

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wildlife safari in Sri Lanka's Kumana National Park
Kumana National Park is the smaller brother of Sri Lanka’s most famous wildlife Park, which is Yala alias Ruhunu National Park. In fact, Kumana borders Yala to the east. The area of Kumana National Park was formerly known as Yala East.

Kumana National Park can be accessed only from the east, the main gate is near Okanda. Most visitors arrive from Arugam Bay. An expedition in Kumana National Park does not offer as many exciting big game sightings as the standard safari in Yala Block 1. However, Kumana is less frequented by tourist jeeps and that’s why many visitors enjoy the untouched landscape of Kumana even more. Chances to observe crocodiles are even better than in Yala. Kumana, which was formerly a bird sanctuary, is famous for ist birdlife in particular. Actually, this national park is area where more bird species occur than in any other part of Sri Lanka.

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Sinnakarachchi Lagoon of Nilaveli Beach

3/2/2018

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Sinnakarachchi Lagoon of Nilaveli Beach
Sinnakarachchi is the name of the lagoon of Nilaveli. It's situated to the north of Trincomalee. The famous holiday destination Nilaveli Beach is a 7.5 km long and 1.5 km wide spit of land in between the ocean and this Sinnakarachchi Lagoon, which opens to the sea north of Nilaveli, just below the bridge connecting the villages of Irakkakandi and Kumpurupiddi. Actually, the former village is also namegiving to the lagoon of Nilaveli, as Sinnakarachchi Lagoon is sometimes called Irakkakandi Lagoon. The mouth of the lagoon near Irakkakandi village is not far away from the maritime National Park of Pigeon Island. Boat tours to all maritime places of interest near Nilaveli - Pigeon Island, Coral Garden plus Red Rock, and Sinnakarachchi Lagoon - are offered by the Nilaveli Tourist Boat Services Cooperative Society Limited, which is a registered body of boat owners in and around Nilaveli. They also organize dolphin and whale watching tours and deep sea fishing. Their office is at the beach site of Nilaveli.

Sinnakarachchi Lagoon has two separate major arms, covering 780 hectares altogether. The main part behind Nilaveli Beaches stretches 9.5 km to the south in a slightly curved way. An even more curved northern arm stretches 5 km inland. The calm lagoon, which is connected with the ocean only by a small natural canal, is used as a sheltered anchorage for fishing boats.

With a maximum depth of 2 m, Sinnakaracchi Lagoon is fairly shallow and its water is more than brackish, actually it is categorized hypersaline. At several places along the lagoon's shores, crystallization of salt can occur during the dry season naturally. However, due to ist high salinity, salt pans for salt production were developed additionally, similar to those in Puttalam Lagoon at the west coast. Nilaveli Beach holiday makers interested in seeing salines, however, should travel 2 km further north to Periyakarachchi Lagoon near Vallipunam, where more salt pans can be seen, very close to the main road to Pulmoddai (B 424).

Due to ist mangrove swamps, seagrass beds and inter-tidal mudflats, Sinnakarachchi Lagoon is an important natural habitat of Sri Lanka's Eastern Province, particularly for waterbirds. However, the eco-system is threatend by the development of new aquaculture, whereas small subsistence fishery is the traditional way of using the lagoon. Wild elephants are known to frequent the area to the west of Sinnakarachchi Lagoon.
Sinnakarachchi Lagoon behind Nilaveli Beach near Trincomalee
Boat services to the wetlands of Sinnakarachchi Lagoon start near Pulmoddai road (B 424) of Nilaveli Beach.
Pulmoddai road B 424 near Nilaveli Beach
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Magul Maha Vihara in Lahugala

2/19/2018

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Wedding terrace of Magul Maha Vihara in Lahugala
The Magul Maha Vihara, also spelt Maghul Maha Viharaya, is an ancient monastic complex situtated close to the small Lahugala-Kitulana National Park in the hinterland of Arugam Bay. Among the remnants of the Anuradhapura period, Magul Maha Vihara is one of the most fascinating archaeological sites in the southeast of Sri Lanka. ‘Magul’ means ‘wedding’ in Sinhala. The platform in the southwestern corner of the rectangular monastic complex is believed to be the location where the wedding of King Kavan Tissa from the southern kingdom of Rohana and Princess Viharamahadevi from Kelaniya near Colombo took place in the 2nd century BC. She will become the mother of Dutthagamani alias Dutugemunu, the most famous king of Sinhalese history. According to legend told in the Mahavamsa, Viharamaha Devi volunteered to sacrifice herself to the sea in order to appease the gods who punished her father’s kingdom by sending a tsunami. But the princess was safely carried in a golden vessel over the ocean, landing at a place near the Muhudu Maha Viharaya in Pottuvil (others say in Kirinda in the Southern Province), where the encounter between the local king and the beautiful princess took place. The marriage is said to have been celebrated in Lahugala on the platform now called Magul Maduwa or Magul Poruwa. It‘s namegiving to the entire ancient complex.
Magul Poruwa in the southwestern corner of the Magul Maha Vihara
Magul Poruwa in the southwestern corner of the Magul Maha Vihara
Magul Poruwa meaning platform for wedding celebrations
Magul Poruwa meaning platform for wedding celebrations
Actually, the buildings are not from the pre-Christian centuries but about one millennium younger, roughly from the late Anuradhapura period. An important stone inscription at the archaeological site dates to an even later period (14th century). The layout of the monastic complex is regular and follows a pattern called „Pabbata Vihara“, which became quite common in the Culturl triangle during the 7th and 8th century, but Magul Maha Vihara is one of the few examples of this systematically arranged monastic compounds in southern Sri Lanka.
Bodhigara atop the Magul Poruwa
Bodhigara atop the Magul Poruwa
Ghats at the pond of Magul Maha Vihara
Ghats at the pond of Magul Maha Vihara
paraket wall of the ancient Magul Maha Vihara
paraket wall of the ancient Magul Maha Vihara
image house of the Magul Maha Vihara
image house of the Magul Maha Vihara
A rectangular paraket wall in north-south direction surrounds the entire complex, which covers an extent of around 10,000 acres. The four major buildings of a monastery are arranged symmetrically in the four corners of the premises. Besides the chapter hall, which serves for the higher ceremonies of the monks, these edifices are dedicated to objects also venerated by lay persons (pilgrims and other guests of the monastery). These objects of veneration are a stupa, a Buddha statue inside a hall called image house (Pathimagara), and a platform for tree worship (Bodhigara). Most likely, the platform now called wedding terrace was the Bodhigara of the ancient monastery now called Magul Maha Vihara.
guard stone at the Magul Maha Vihara
Dvarapala statue at the Magul Maha Vihara
The moonstone (Sandakada Pahana) of the Magul Maha Vihara in Lahugala is of special interest for lovers of ancient Sinhala-Buddhist art. It’s the largest ancient moonstone with intricate carvings in the southern half of the the island. In fact, there are only very few carved moonstones in southern Sri Lanka. Hence, the moonstone of the Magul Maha Vihara is the best instance of this typical and classical sujet of Sri Lankan art, which is without equally elaborate paragons in India. There is one feature that can be seen nowhere else than in the Magul Maha Vihara. Elephant carvings are very common on classical Sri Lankan moonstones. But only in the Magul Maha Vihara the elephants are depicted with riders. Mahouts can usually not be seen on stone carvings from the Anuradhapura period and not on any other moonstone in the entire world.
moonstone of the Magul Maha Vihara in Lahugala
This belongs to the mid Anuradhapura period. Being one of the more attractive features of an edifice, the moonstone underwent development on a number of occasions and evolved into an exquisite artwork of delicate carvings by the mid Anuradhapura period. From among the carvings on the moonstone the tender leaf of the Ironwood tree, lotus petal motif, lotus flowers, animal figures etc. took a prominent place. However the moonstone in Magul Maha Vihara is unique among the moonstones found from numerous places in Sri Lanka. The design of a mahout riding the elephant depicted in this moonstone is an eminent feature. It is our duty to protext national archaeological heritage for the sake of present and future generations.
The above text in italic letters is cited from the signboard of Sri Lanka's Archaeological Department,
which is placed near the moonstone of the Madul Maha Vihara in Lahugala.
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Buddhangala monastery

1/19/2018

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Buddhangala
Buddhangala near Ampara is one of the earliest Buddhist hermitages of Sri Lankan history. It was established in the 2nd century BC by Chitra; a princess of the Digamadulla area of ancient Rohana. Some say it was inhabited by reclusive monks even before Monk Mahinda introduced Buddhism in the Anuradhapura Kingdom in the 3rd century BC. A meditation center has been reestablished in th 20th century. The caves and ruins and modern monastic buildings spread across five flat gneiss rocks. Buddhangala is a rewarding half-day trip for visitors of Gal Oya National Park.

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Thennaddi Bay near Passikudah

1/13/2018

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Thenaddi Bay near Passikudah
Thennaddi Bay is a long beach almost untouched by tourism although not far away from the busy Passikudah Beach. Thennaddi Bay is home to a Tamil fishing community. You can observe traditonal fishing techniques here, but most locals don’t understand English.
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Seruwawila Mangala Rajamaha Viharaya

1/8/2018

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Seruwawila Mangala Rajamaha Viharaya
Seruwawila Mangala Rajamaha Viharaya, also known as Seruvila, is one of the two most important Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province. It claims to be one of the places visited by the Buddha, although the ancient chronicles mentione only Dighavapi, which is 161 km further south, is mentioned as such a place in Eastern Sri Lanka. In contrast to all other 16 places visited by the historical Buddha, which are counted as Solosmasthanas, Seruwawila is believed to be a place visited also by the other Buddhas of the present aeon. Relics of all 4 Buddhas who already lived in aour aeon are said to be enshrined in the stupa of Seruwila. This is extraordinary, as there is only one other stupa in the world containing relics of all 4 Buddhas (Kakusandha, Konagamana, Kassapa with and Gotama), which is the famous golden Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar.

In 1922, the dagaba from the period of Dutthagamani’s father Kavantissa (2nd century BC) was re-discovered by Ven. Dambagasare Sumedhankara Thero, who reestablished the temple. The conservation work was completed in 1931. In 1962, Seruwawila was declared an an Archaeological Reserve.

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Arisimalai Beach

12/29/2017

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Arisi Malai
Arisimalai is the loveliest untouched beach in the area to the north of Trincomalee, there are no houses, no stalls and no roads close to the beach, but it can be reached within 10 minutes from a car park near Pulmoddai. „Arisi“ means raw rice in Tamil, and „malai“ or „male“ means hills. The name, also transcribed „Arisi Malai“, refers to the send of the beach which resemblesrice. The grain of sand is remarkably big and seems like polished.  This gives an amazing feeling to your feet when walking along the charming beach. Swimming is relatively safe compared to other beaches, as the bay is protected by rocky small promontories. Not many foreigners find their way to this lovely place.

Arisimalai Beach north of Trincomalee
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Digavapi Chetiya

12/15/2017

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Digavapi Chetiya
Digavapi is the largest ancient stupa in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province. It is mentioned in the Mahavamsa as one of the places visited by the Buddha during his third and last stay on the island and thereby the most important Buddhist pilgrimage sites in the eastern plains of Sri Lanka. The stupa is said to have been built on the spot where he sat down in meditation. It was enlarged in the course of the centuries. The foundation of the Digavapi Chetiya is attributed to Saddhatissa (137-119 BC), the younger brother and successor of Dutthagamani, the national hero of the Sinhalese people. In 1986, a gold leaf inscription 14 was excavated, which has been dated to the end of the second century AD.

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Rufus Kulam and wildlife at Kanchikudi Aru

12/10/2017

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Rufus Kulam at Kanchikudi Aru in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province
Most guidebooks do not mention Rufus Kulam, though this attraction 30 km north of Arugam Bay is well worth visiting for 2 reasons. First of all, it’s certainly one of the most beautiful lakes in Sri Lanka, as it is dotted with rocks along the banks of the creeks and forming islets within the lake. Furthermore, Rufus Kulam is a wildlife adventure. Mugger crocodiles live in the lake. Observing elephants and buffalos and deer is easy in the late afternoon, because bordering the upstream side of the lake is a wide grassland visitd by animals from the surrounding Kanchikudi jungle, which is the largest forest of Sri Lanka without national park status. Thereby, wildlife experiences are possible in Rufus Kulam without expensive tickets and jeep hiring and even without ranger. But for your own safety, you should stay away from the grass plain, on a rock in some distance and should be accompanied by an experienced local guide.

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Arugam Bay and surroundings

11/21/2017

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Did you know, that our website is one of those which provide most comprehensive information about Arugam Bay and surroundings? We do not recommend specific hotels or surf classes in Arugam Bay or Pottuvil, but can do so if you contact us for booking inqiries…

We can also arrange camping safaris to Kumana National Park, but due to restrictions of the wildlife department, the camping ground is outside the national park boundary in the wilderness of the Kudumbigala Sanctuary.
view from Arugam Bay to the sand dunes of Pottuvil
view from Arugam Bay to the sand dunes of Pottuvil
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