The fortress in galle was constructed after the advent of the portuguese.It is belived that group of sailors,led by Lorenzo De Almeda,son of Francesco De Almeda landed in Sri lanka in 1505,The first fortress named the swart bastion (black fort) was built by them on the cliff,jutting out to the sea.In 1640 The town was annexed by the Dutch in a battle with the portuguese.In 1796 British took control of the city from Dutch and ruled until 1948.The Fort comprising 14 bastions and 90 acres,there are 19 streets inside the fort and total circumfeence is 3km
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MOON STONE name is derived from a visual effect, or sheen, caused by light reflecting internally in the moonstone from layer inclusion of different feldspars.
Geology
The most common moonstone is of the mineral adularia. The plagioclase feldspar oligoclase also produces moonstone specimens. Moonstone is feldspar with a pearly and opalescent luster.[1] An alternate name is hecatolite.[1]
[edit]Formation
Moonstone is composed of two feldspar species, orthoclase and albite. The two species are intermingled. Then, as the newly formed mineral cools, the intergrowth of orthoclase and albite separates into stacked, alternating layers. When light falls between these thin, flat layers, it scatters in many directions producing the phenomenon called adularescence.
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Dondra Head Lighthouse is an offshore Lighthouse in Dondra, Sri Lanka and is operated and maintained by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority. It is located on Dondra Head the southern most point in Sri Lanka and is the tallest lighthouse in the country. It was designed by Sir James Nicholas Douglass and constructed by William Douglass.
Kanneliya is important that its a main tropical rain forest of Sri Lanka. Because of such forest Sri Lanka entered to the top 25 hotspot list. KDN complex and Sinharaja is tropical montane rain forest of Sri Lanka and several species are hidden in there .------------------>
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The Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage was started in 1975 by the Department of Wildlife on a twenty five acre coconut property on the Maha Oya river at Rambukkana. The orphanage was primarily designed to afford care and protection to the many baby elephants found in the jungle without their mothers. In most of these cases the mother had either died or been killed. In some instances the baby had fallen into a pit and in others the mother had fallen in and died. Initially this orphanage was at the Wilpattu National Park, then shifted to the tourist complex at Bentota and then to the Dehiwala Zoo.
From the Dehiwala Zoo it was shifted 1975 to Pinnawela. At the time it was shifted the orphanage had five baby elephants which formed its nucleus.It was hoped that this facility would attract both local and foreign visitors, the income from which would help to maintain the orphanage.
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