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Kandy City center

 

"Kandy City Centre" Commercial and Shopping Complex at Dalada Veediya, Kandy is the most modern commercial complex in Sri Lanka. The Complex is designed with ultra modern features yet preserving the iconic Kandyan architecture. With respect to this unique entrepreneurial marvel, The Board of Investment has granted the prestigious "Flagship Status" to this Project. Several leading banks, a fully equipped supermarket, a variety of restaurants, an entertainment zone, a well designed state of the art food court will also feature in the Complex. (KCC, 2014)

 

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Sri Lanka Railway - First class traveling

Sri Lanka railways offers range of First class traveling to many express trains which are operating from Colombo Fort.

1. Air conditioned, reclining seats, sound proof
2. Observation salon
3. First class births

Travel with Sri Lanka railways for a cheap and comfortable traveling.

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Travel to Kitulgala

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Kitulgala is a small town in the west of Sri Lanka. It is in the wet zone rain forest, which gets two monsoons each year, and is one of the wettest places in the country. Nevertheless, it comes alive in the first three months of the year, especially in February, the driest month. The Academy Award-winning The Bridge on the River Kwai was filmed on the Kelani River near Kitulgala, although nothing remains now except the concrete foundations for the bridge (and, supposedly, the submerged train cars that plunged into the river in the climactic scene). Kitulgala is also a base for white-water rafting, which starts a few kilometres upstream.

Large numbers of people make the excursion from Colombo at weekends to enjoy the beautiful scenery, play in the river, and have an excellent rice and curry lunch at the local restaurants.

The Kelani river is wide at Kitulgala, but it is shallow apart from a deep channel near the opposite bank, so in the drier months it provides a safe and attractive place to swim, wash and play.

The river can be crossed by walking out across the shallows and crossing the deep channel in a dugout canoe, which is stabilised with an outrigger.

Sri Lanka's most recently discovered bird, the Serendib Scops Owl was originally heard calling by Deepal Warakagoda in these forests.

The hills above the rubber plantations also have Mountain Hawk Eagle, Crested Treeswift and Layard's Parakeet.

The agriculture around Kitulgala is typical of the hilly wet zone. The Solitary Fishtail Palm, Caryota urens, which is called Kitul in Sri Lanka, gives rise to the town's name. Its sap is concentrated into a delicious syrup, not dissimilar to maple syrup, and crystallized as jaggery. It is also fermented to make palm wine. The pith is used to make sago, and the fibres to make rope.


Red bananas in Kitulgala forest
Bananas of both red and yellow varieties are grown. The yellow bananas are only some 8 cm long, but are sweeter and tastier than the commercial strains available in the West. Rubber trees are also grown on the higher areas.

Many birders stay at Kitulgala. This area has most of the rainforest bird species that are found at the World Biosphere Reserve at Sinharaja, although in lower numbers. However, the secondary forest and cultivation at Kitulgala is more open than the pristine woodlands of Sinharaja, and elusive endemic species like Sri Lanka Spurfowl, Green-billed Coucal and Spot-winged Thrush may be easier to see.

Scene creation of the movie The Bridge on the River Kwai[edit]

A scene in the film, bridge at Kitulgala in Sri Lanka, before the explosion
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, and Sessue Hayakawa. The scene creation of the film was done in Sri Lanka and many of them were at Kitulgala area including the bridge explosion.

In 1997, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry.

World class Porcelain by Dankotuwa Porcelain

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Dankotuwa Porcelain is named after the town of Dankotuwa which is famous for its clay based terra cotta products. It is believed that the name of the town Dankotuwa originated from the two Sinhala words Dan and Kotuwa, which means an area [Kotuwa] being used for giving alms [Dan] during the reigns of ancient Sinhala Kings. Dankotuwa also became famous as the birth place of the well known Catholic Priest, Rev Fr Marcelline Jayakody the winner of the 1983 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts. Fr Jayakody was born in the Dankotuwa village in 1902, the author of thousands of essays, poems and songs plumbing the wellsprings of sinhala culture and traditions.

Dankotuwa Porcelain Ltd., was established in 1984 as a Private Company. Today it is a Public Company listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange and has about to 3,000 shareholders. A consortium of Japanese Companies holds the largest portion of shares and accordingly Dankotuwa Porcelain PLC, is an associate Company of International Ceramics Inc of Japan.

The Company uses the best machinery made in Germany and Japan and obtains technical guidance from German and Japanese experts. Its product quality is recognised as being amongst the best in the world due to many superior characteristics of its body, such as very high whiteness, high translucency, high resistance to chipping and scratching, and also because of the high quality of its decorations.

Dankotuwa products are exported all over the world but mostly to Europe and USA. About 85% of production is exported. While some products are sold under our own brand names; DANKOTUWA, ELAN and LAKLAIN, some are sold as co-branded products having our brand name and that of the agent, wholesaler or retailer. Others are made totally on behalf of other brands. Our products can be found in many top department stores in the world including Macy’s of USA, Bhs of UK, El Corte Ingles of Spain, Migres of Switzerland, Isetan of Japan and Jashanmal of Dubai. Dankotuwa is not a mass scale producer but produces speciality products for niche markets, and therefore, our prices are expensive compared with mass scale producers.

The work force at Dankotuwa is highly skilled and experienced and most of them have been with the Company from the initial years. Dankotuwa is considered a model employer providing relatively high wages and a number of fringe benefits, including free uniforms, subsidised meals, subsidised transport, free tea and snacks twice a day, subsidised loans, free medical care and free books/school bags for children of employees, etc.

Basic details of the Company are as follows:

1. Production capacity - 750,000 pieces per month
2. Labour force - Approximately 1,000
3. Percentage of output exported - 85%
4. Current annual export turnover - Approximately USD 10 million

(Source: Dankotuwa.com, 2014)

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