Tuesday, May 08, 2007

dambulla... from a distance...

From Dambulla


From Dambulla


The city of Dambulla located in the Central Province of Sri Lanka, is 148 km north-east of Colombo and 72 km north of Kandy. Major attractions include the largest and best preserved cave temple complex of Sri Lanka, and the Rangiri Dambullu international cricket stadium. The city also boasts to have the largest rose quartz mountain range in South Asia, and the Iron wood forest, or Namal Uyana. Dambulla being in the dry zone, with seasonal rain and a clear sky, well most of the time, is an area for commercial agriculture. The picture shows a field, run commercially by one of the largest agriculture and fertilizer companies in Sri Lanka.