Fantasia tours, Sri Lanka

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Itinerary	Culture Tour - Option III - Explore changing culture heritage (Winter)
Duration Info	DAY - 6 (Sigiriya - Mahiyanganaya – Kandy)
Accommodation Info
Location	KANDY
Meals Info	Bed & Breakfast
Hotel	Oak Ray Heritage
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Id	398
Created	5/11/20, 5:15 AM

Description

<ul><li>Breakfast at the hotel<br></li><li>Transfer you to Kandy via Mahiyanganaya. Approximately 2 hours’ drive to Mahiyanganaya and another 2 hour’s to Kandy.</li><li>En-route visit Mahiyangana Raja Maha Viharaya, the place, believed to be the Load Buddha first visited in Sri Lanka </li><li>Meet Vaddhs, the Sri Lanka Aborigines.</li><li>Dinner and overnight stay at Oak Ray Heritage, Kandy </li></ul>

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Id	Location Id	Thinkstodocategory Id	Title	Name	Decsription	Showforpublic	Image	Created	Actions
351	63	12	Mahiyangana temple	Mahiyangana temple	<ul>Lord Buddha has visited Mahiyanganaya nine months after his Enlightenment on a Duruthu full moon poya day as the first visit to Sri Lanka. He visited the country to settle the dispute between Yakka and Naga tribes who inhabited this area. The Yakka leader of the area named Sumana Saman (later become the god Sumana Saman) and his followers listen to the preaching of the Buddha and become the follower of Buddhism.</br> <br>As per the request of the people Buddha has given a handful of hair from his head to worship. Sumana Saman placed those in a golden casket and built the Mahiyangana stupa by deposited them. The original stupa was reconstructed over it 7 times.</ul>	1	B.jpg	5/5/20, 6:08 AM	View Edit Delete
352	63	41	Dambana, Vedda's native village	Dambana, Vedda's native village	<ul>Dambana a jungle area has located16 km east of Mahiyanganaya. The Sri Lankan native hunter-gathering people, the Veddas, are living there. However, they were unable to live with their traditional hunting life due to resettlement projects, development of the area, and civilization influences. More or less they were absorbed into mainstream society and mainly cultivating fields. But all of them are protecting their cultural identity, retained their own religion, a kind of spirit cult, wearing their traditional weapons of axe, bow, and arrow, and performing their traditional rituals.</ul>	1	B.jpg	5/5/20, 6:15 AM	View Edit Delete
353	63	7	Sorabora Wewa	Sorabora Wewa	<ul>The ancient “sea of Bintenna” now known as Sorabora Wewa was a unique ancient reservoir built in the 1st century BC during King Dutugemunu’s period. It is said that this reservoir was built by the giant in the area called “Bulatha” and his men. Sorabora Wewa containing a 485-meter embankment. But it does not have the structure called “Bisokotuwa’’ that all the other reservoirs have to protect the embankment from erosion and maintain the water pressure from inside the tank to the sluice gate (“Sorowwa”). The 2 gigantic natural rock closing each other was utilized as the structure of Bisokotuwa to control the outward water flow.</ul>	1	SORABORA---B.jpg	5/5/20, 6:17 AM	View Edit Delete