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Close and easy to visit Bundala National Park- Hambantota, Sri Lanka

Bundala National Park is just as close and easy to visit from the town of Tissamaharama as Yala National Park. The difference? Well, at Yala there was a gridlock of jeeps to watch the leopard sleep on the rock. At Bundala we did not see half a dozen other jeeps our entire visit. We did [...]

December 23, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

Elephant Reach Hotel – Yala,SriLanka

November 24, 2011 No Comment

The newest luxury hotel Elephant Reach located in Southern most point of Sri Lanka is only 265 km drive from capital city of Colombo , which is owned and managed by Lanka Hotels & Travels (Pvt) Ltd. This unique nature resort spreads in 4 acres of land and consists of 21 chalets which are built [...]

Journey to Yala National Park-Tissamaharama -Orange Coconuts, and People Talking

October 23, 2011 No Comment

We left the island’s south-south-west coast a little before one o’clock with our only goal to make it to any hotel in Tissamaharama (Tissa, for short) outside Yala National Park before five the next morning. It was the one real event we had planned (read: paid out the nose for, in advance) — a hired [...]

Tissamaharama-American tourist in Sri Lanka

October 14, 2011 No Comment

We asked for Tissamaharama, the town everyone called Tissa, and pulled up to park outside its painted white temple under the full moon. We had taken the long road from Hambantota past the right turn at Wirawila, up and around through Kataragama. We asked for the hotel, “Tissa Lake View” and followed fingers that pointed [...]

How to Access to Yala National Park

September 20, 2011 No Comment

There are three regular routes from Colombo. Along the coast via Gall, Matara, Hambantota, Tissamaharama (Approximately 182 miles/ 293 km) Via Avissawella, Rathnapura, Pelmadulla, Embilipitiya, Hambantota, Tissamaharama (Approximately 176 miles/ 284 km) Via Avissawella, Rathnapura, Pelmadulla, Udawalawe, Tanamalwila, Tissamaharama (Approximately 146 miles/ 235 km) From Udawalawa to Tanamalwila road is closed from 06.00 p.m. to [...]

Place to Visit Tissamaharama -Srilanka

October 13, 2010 7 Comments

Tissa Wewa Rainwater reservior North of the modern town lies the beautiful Tissa Wewa, an expansive artificial lake built by King Kavantissa in the 2nd century BC of the ancient southern kingdom of Ruhuna. The shore nearest the town is often busy with crowds of people bathing & flock of aquatic birds including bitterns, [...]

Tissamaharama-Travel Guide,History

October 12, 2010 2 Comments

Tissamaharama is a town in south-eastern Sri Lanka. It used to be the capital of the Sinhalese Kingdom of Ruhuna as early as the 3rd century B.C. Only few buildings from that period can still be seen today. The large artificial Tissa Wewa lake, which was a part of a sophisticated irrigation system, also [...]