From Dambulla to Polonnaruwa

Next we started to go from Dambulla to Polonnaruwa. On the way you may find a lot of stalls, selling water melons. These stalls belong to farmers, and some of them are built by those who buy them from farmers and sell.

There are two kinds of water melons. On of one with is dark green in color, and the other is white with green steaks. The later one is tastier than the former.

Dambulla town is fairly a big town. It is called the sleepless city in Sri Lanka, because there are people awake throughout the night.  

It takes about twenty minutes to come from Dambulla town to Hambarana town. On the way you will come across a jungle. If you come in this way at night or late in the evening, maybe you will see elephants and dears if you are lucky enough.

Hambarana is a very small town. There you will come to a round about, with four roads. When you are traveling from dambulla, the road straight ahead goes to Trincomalle, one to your left leads you to Maradamkadawala, and the one to the left goes to Polonnaruwa.

On the way to polonnaruwa, after traveling for about 10 minutes, you enter the Minneriya National park. Here you have travel for about 20 minutes through the forest. In the evenings, and early mornings you may find elephants, deers and many other wild animals on the way.

At the end of the jungle you on your left hand side you may see the Minneriya tank, built by King Mahasena. Most of the times there are herds of elephants in this place. Many people stop here for a while to enjoy the beauty.