Heritage

 Heritage

• Adisham Bungalow - country seat of Sir Thomas Villiers (The spirit of Thomas Lister Villiers strongly pervades this stately house. Villiers came to Ceylon in 1887 with 10 sterling pounds in his pocket.)
• Bogoda Roofed Bridge (Bogoda, with its ancient temple and wooden bridge lies some 30 kilometres from Bandarawela and 10 km from Badulla, off the Hali-ela junction. Believed to be the oldest surviving wooden bridge in the world, the Bogoda bridge dates back to the 1600s, but the temple just by it, has a much longer history, going back to the 1st century BC.)
• The Bogoda bridge: Ancient bridge leads to caves of mystery (This bridge is 50 ft. in length and 5 ft. wide. Two wooden poles bear the entire weight of the bridge. The roof of the bridge is covered in indigenous tiles (Sinhala ulu) and two wooden fences decorated in various designs, have been erected on either side. Interestingly, not a single nail has been used in the construction of the bridge. All parts fit neatly into each other.)
• St. Lucia's Cathedral - Kotahena : The oldest & the largest
• The house by Bulankulame Wewa ( This ancient house by the Bulankulame Wewa is believed to be the oldest house in Sri Lanka dating back almost 400 years. )
• Pahala Walauwa: Savour cool Kotmale climes ( Pahala Walauwa, the "Maha Gedera" or ancestral home of Gamini Dissanayake's mother, has seen a major slice of the history of Ceylon, having been built more than 200 years ago. )
• The Limestone Grottos of Vavulpane(The grotos consist of at least 12 caves of varying sizes. The caves are appropriately named; it means Cave of Bats after the 250,000 bats that inhabit it. )
• The Royal Botanical Gardens at Peradeniya ( During the second world war, the headquarters of the South East Asia Command under the Late Lord Louis Mountbatten as Supreme Allied Commander was sited at the Royal Botanical Gardens of Peradeniya.)
• Aliwatte: a spacious cave in a massive rock with royal secrets ('Aliwatte' in Yatiyantota with a spacious cave in a massive rock, covering several perches of land, where King Walagamba had found secret accommodation once, during his exile)
• Seetha Eliya / Sita Eliya ( The Ramayana introduces King Ravana as a mighty flamboyant King of Lanka. King Ravana was a devotee of god Siva the holder of Pushparaga the chariot. It was Ravana who seized Seetha from Parnasalai in India, the holy hut of Rama and was brought to Asok Vana, a beautiful park at Seetha-Eliya on the Pushparaga, an air chariot - without touching her )