In last august vacation i went to Pitawala Pathana ,which is situated in Matale.It is a unique grassland of pathana type found in knuckles conservation forest. And also a one of the places with lowest gravitational forces, in the world.So it is an ideal  place for someone to use as an airport.It is said that the  the great king ravana  who ruled sri lanka thousands of years ago used this place as one of his airports. How to reach pitawala pathana ? Go to Matale and then turn to Rattota road and take the right turn from raththota town  and you will be able to reach Riverstan,continue in the same road for another 3kms,and you will be able to reach Pitawala pathana. What can we see there? When you are walking in Pathana you will be able to see mini world's end ,you will see yellow coloured spots marked on the ground so that it will be easy for you to find the way to mini world's end.Also there will be many endemic and endangered species there,so please leave o...

Everybody in Sri Lanka and India know about Ravana through ramayan,right?But is the story in Ramayana true?Does it hide anything from us?Well Ramayana is the story from Indian side,How many of you know about that story from Sri lankan side? The information in this series of posts are gathered from several books,tv programs and magazines,and some are Sri Lankan folklores.and i visited  most of the places mentioned in these posts.So are you ready to start a journey to few thousands of years back...Here you go.... Ravana aka Dasis Ravana was a king (I'd like to say an emperor) lived in Sri Lanka(at that time it was helanka) about 7500 years ago.The meaning of " Dasis "is ten areas,many people misunderstand this as ten heads,but it is wrong.According to many sources king Ravana ruled a part of India,a part of China,North east Asia and several other countries. King Ravana had a good knowledge about medicines,and he was a very intelligent person,and Ravana and sri lankan ...