The story of sigiriya

 A long time ago a king called dhatusena ruled in Anuradapura, He had two sons named moggalana and kasyapa. kasyapa was younger than moggalana but he wanted to become king first, so he killed his father and became king.  Moggalana was very, he wanted to kill kasyapa and become king.  So kasyapa ran away from anuradapura and built a beautiful palace on top of a rock so that nobody could catch him and kill him.   This rock was  called sigiriya. He built many beautiful byildings on sigiriya and painted  beautiful pictures on the sides of the rock.  Even now we can see some of these pictures and some ruins of the buildings.

Sinharaja Rainforest.

 The  Sinharaja forest is the only undisturbed rainforest left in sri lanka. It is about 9000 hectares in extent. Many of the plants are very rare. Over 60% of the tree species  are found only in the lowland wet zone  of sri lanka. If these  species of trees are  allowed to get destroyed  the  world  lose them  altogether.  so it is  important that much effort is  made  to conserve this rich.  valuable and  fragile  habitat.    The  sinharaja rainforest is  the largest  rainforest reserve  in sri lanka.

 In  1840 sin haraja became  a crown property. In1988  the sinharaja  was  made a  National  wilderness  area. In  1989  UNESCO  included  the sinharaja  forest  in the  world  heritade  list.  as  the  first national  heritage  of  sri  lanka.   The  sinharaja  forest  is  home to many rare  animals, birds, butter flies,  insects, reptiles  and  trees,  Ferns and  mosses  grow  well as  the  climate  is  humid  because  of  heavy  rainfall.

Merry Christmas !

     Jingle  bells,  jingle  bells,

                                       Jingle  all  the  way.

                         oh, what  fun  ik  is  to  ride,

                         In  a  one   horse   open   sleigh  !

                                   

Dr.C.W.W. Kannangara

He  was  the  minister  of  education  of  the  government  in  1932.  he  wanted  to  give  a  free  education  to  every  child  on  the  island.  he  is  sometimes  called  the  “Father  of  free  Education.”

The Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.

   The  pinnawala  elephant  orphange  is  in  the  kegalle  district.  the  road  that  leade  to  the  orphanage  is  about  two  kilo  metres  from  kegalle  town, on  the  kandy  rood. It  wasstarted  in  1975.  There  are  baby  and  abult  elephants  in  the  orphanage.  They  are  all  rescued  elephants.   The  playful  little  ones  spray  and  splash  water  on  each  other. The  baby  elephants  below  one  year  are  the  in  fants.  Those  between  1 year  and  5  year  are  calves.       The  male  adults  are  bulls  and  the  female  adults  are  cows.   An  in  fant  dinkss  litres  of  milk  at  a  time.   They  are  bdttle  fed  five  times  a  day .  The  a  dults  ear  fodder,  coconut  leaves,  jak  leves  and  kitul  trunks.   you  can  spend  hours  and  hours  watching  them.