Posted by: mihiranprasanna | November 24, 2007

Water Falls in Sri Lanka

Water falls
The mountains of Sri Lanka abound with waterfalls of exquisite beauty. Numbering more than hundred and many of them are virtually unknown, hidden away in forest or approached by steps and remote tea plantation tracks. In fact for it’s size Sri Lanka has recorded water falls than another country.
Sri Lanka’s numerous revers, fed by two half – yearly monsoons, with topography of high and steeply scarped peneplains, and rever beds of hard erosion-resistant metamorphic rock, all provide ideal ingredient for the formation of waterfalls.

24509286461.jpg         40346966631.jpg            Diyaluma Waterfall  
 Diyaluma originates from Pun gala oya. It is srilankan’s second highest waterfall. Its height is 220 metres. It can be seen from koslanda, wellawaya road. The vapour and mist rises high and can soak a person. It is called Diyaluma. Because of the Immence speed it decends. It really originated as “Diyahaluwa” But later became “Diyaluma”.    
 

   

     
 
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