SRILANKA [contd]

The Hotel Blue Oceanic at Negabo was on the beach & old but comfortable Hotel

Next morning we left by road to Nuwaraeliya -called little England full of tea gardens Gardens & English style houses this was the retreat for the British when they occupied Ceylon we went through beautiful landscaped saw the Widest waterfall of Srilanka =St Clair& also the Devon waterfalls

We made a stop at a tea kiosk Driving through Kithugala the oscar winning Movie ''Bridge on the River Kwai'' was filmed in this place

we did not see the actual place as it was interior

We checked in at St Andrews Hotel -A lovely Hotel with a panoramic view & beautiful well kept gardens & green Lawns

Next we visited ''SEETHALAYA'' the place Seetha was kept by the King Ravana under the Ashoka tree

here we saw the place where Seetha used to sit The river passing through Also the foot step of Hanuman when he landed in this place looking for Seetha

the temple was beautiful with statues of Seetha Rama Laxmana & Hanuman

from here we passed Gregory Lake & Victoria Gardens

KANDY

After breakfast we left Nuwaraeliya for Kandy On the way we visited the Botanical Gardens of Peradeniya -A huge bothanical garden with ever so many trees & plants -herbs Bamboo Lake with Lotus & Orchid house etc Here we saw ''Twin coconot tree'' with 2 coconuts on each branch they were Huge coconuts & takes about 5 years to mature This is the largest seed in the world & brought from Sechelles Island

In the afternoon we visited the ''tooth relic ''temple -tooth of lord Budha kept in a Golden It was very beautiful & the holiest of the Holy Places for the Bhudhist