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Koggala Lake – A Place Rooted in Heritage and History
Located in the South Coast of Sri Lanka, Koggala is a small coastal town which is home to one of the longest beaches of Sri Lanka and is widely known to be a tourist attraction yet remains to be relatively uncluttered and unexplored. However, in the recent years, due to the popularity of Koggala as a historically important landscape in Sri Lanka, its popularity has risen and given way to the area being actively sought out by foreign and local tourists alike. One such place that has historical and cultural significance is the titular Koggala Lake.
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Rumassala – Mythical, Mysterious and Mesmerizing
If you are familiar with the religious and the mythological aspects of South Asia, especially India, you might be familiar with the epic of the ‘Ramayanaya’. In this epic there’s a point in the narrative where Hanuma grows bigger than a mountain and tears out a piece of the Himalayas where a whole bunch of rare medicinal plants are said to flourish, and walks into Sri Lanka. “Why did Hanuma tear out a piece of a mountain?” you might ask. Well, it’s because he forgot the exact plant that has the power to cure princess Seetha, so as any reasonable person would do, he picked up a side of a mountain and flew away with it. After acquiring the herb, it is said that Hanuma threw the piece of the mountain away and it landed right here in this southern region of the island which later became Galle and this is where this mythical story bleeds into reality in a surreal way; the piece of the Himalayan mountain range that Hanuma left, is said to be the Rumassala. What’s interesting about the whole story is how, bizarrely enough, a few certain types of medicinal herbs supposedly found only in the Himalayan region of India can also be found in Rumassala. Who knows, maybe there is some truth to the legendarium of the mythical history shared by Sri Lanka and India.
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