DAY 03 KANDY / NUWARA ELIYA
After breakfast Proceed to Mahiyanganaya.
Visit Weragantota
This is believed to be the first place where Sitadevi was brought into Lanka in King Ravana’s Vimana. The city had a beautiful palace for queen Mandothari surrounded by waterfalls, streams and varieties of flora and fauna. Sitadevi was kept in this palace until she moved to Ashoka Vatika.
Visit Seetha Kotuwa
This means Sita’s fort and got its name because of Sita dev’s stay here.
Afterwards visit Gurulupotha.
This was and aircraft repair center in the capital city. In Valmiki’s depiction King Ravana’s Vimana resembled a huge peacock. The Vimana in Sinhala language means Dhandu monara which is known as flying peacock, and hence the name Gurulupotha, which means parts of birds.
Continuation to Nuwara Eliya
En-route visit Ghoushala.
King Ravana had his dairy farm here. Milk was air lifted to the capital Lankapura from here using Vimana’s. The stone pillars here have the worn out marks cast by constant use of tying ropes on them.
Proceed to Nuwara Eliya.
In Nuwara Eliya visit the Gayathri Pedam
This is the first and the foremost temple built for Gayathri Amman in Sri Lanka, and the Shiva Lingam found in this temple was brought from the holy river Narmada.
Your host hotel will take you through her hospitality during your stay under her kind staff.
Over Night in Nuwara Eliya… (Windsor Hotel***)
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