Kirinda, is a small town and a small port located on the south coast of Sri Lanka about 270 km from the city of Colombo and about 10km radius from the south of the ancient old religious city, Tissamaharama.
The story behind Kirinda is in the 2nd century BC, King Kelanitissa reigned over the west of the island from his capital at Kelaniya. Having suspected a Buddhist bhikshu (monk) of being involved in an intrigue between the Queen and his brother, King Kelanitissa had the monk tipped into a cauldron of boiling oil to the untold horror of his subjects.
It was prophesied that the kingdom could be saved only by way sacrificing a princess to the raging sea. The eldest daughter of the king, already reputed for her bravery, rose to the occasion to save her nation. Overcome with remorse, the king decided to atone for his sacrilegious act by making the sacrifice that would appease the gods. Accordingly he had a golden boat built, loaded it with one month's provisions for one & cast it adrift with his daughter. The boat carried an inscription that on board is no less than a princess. The boat was cast away onto the shores of Kirinda & the news was carried to the King Kavantissa, who reigned in Ruhuna. It was already prophesied, that if the king was ever to marry, it would only be a princess arriving over the seas.
The princess, named Queen Vihara Maha Devi, for her bravery, bore the king two sons who were to become heroes. The elder son King Dutugemunu (161 - 137BC) of Ruhuna became the greatest hero of Lanka by rescuing the nation from the marauding Dravidian invaders from south India. Viharamaha Devi herself is recognized as the heroine of our motherland.
Unawatuna Beach Resort(UBR) is one of the loveliest beach resorts I ever being to. It is a very nice place to relax watching the sea.
This time we booked luxury room and they did give us 5 star treatment. It has a huge bathroom with jacuzzi, sofa bed, hair dryer, bathrobes, lots of towels, slippers ... etc.
Our Luxury Room - Very spacious
Provided us two bathrobes and bathroom slippers
Safe for our valuables
Huge Jacuzzi which can accommodate two people
Also I must say I'm intrigue with their buffet. They so many selections for locals and also foreigners. I don't whether that happens because that day there was lot of local. But anyway I'm so impressed with the food.
The restaurant got nice sculptures
Resturant
They use food to decorate the resturant
There was a boat in the middle of the restaurant. How lovely.
In case you have lot of visitors frequently, you need to be little creativity with your servings. Otherwise they might think that you are serving the same thing everyday. Well today's special at my place is the mango and yogurt treat, which happens to be a dessert.
Ingredients:
Mango & Pineapples (If not you can also take canned fruits.)
Yogurt
Plums
Golden syrup or honey (Not necessary)
Method:
Take few bowls or desserts cups
Place a layer of yogurt and on top of that a layer pineapple.
Again place a layer of yogurt and on top of that a layer mango. Continue layering until all the ingredients are used up
Sprinkles a layer of plums.
If you guests like to have it sweet add honey on top of everything.
Is there any cake fans who loved to eat or love to start baking cakes?
Well advice is start baking your first cake with a butter cake or a fruit cake. Once you mastered that, then you can bake any cake without any problem.
Ingredients for 1kg cake
250g Flour
250g Sugar
250g butter or margarine
5 eggs (250 g)
1/4 cup of milk
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon Vanila essence
Fruits (raisons, cashew nuts, cherries, pumpkin preserve... etc. )
Method
Mix flour and baking powder and keep it a side.
Beat sugar and butter together, then add eggs one by one and beat well until sugar dissolves. (For this use a hand beater or a electric beater, but never use a food processor kind of equipment)
Add vanila essence and mix well.
Add milk and mix well.
Preheat oven 180°C
Add flour mixer gradually in small quantity and mix well.
Bake at 180 °C in a per-heated oven for 25 – 35 minutes.
On our trip to Bandarawela, we stayed at Banadarawela hotel which you can see in this image.
It situated in the middle bandarawela town and you can't miss it by any chance.
Bandarawela Hotel built in 1873, has been well maintained (rooms are clean and I give 5 star for that but I think they didn't maintain the garden well) yet not modernized,
retaining the original architecture and interior decoration.(Actually when we arrive there we were extremely surprised with the interior. They gt huge tall bed which we hardly climb up. They gt there wash basin in the room. Entree to the balcony in the bathroom. Huge bath tub, but we didn't use it because we thought it's a waste of water.)
Bandarwela Hotel
is belongs to the Aitken Spence Group of Companies in Sri Lanka.
You can definitely have some kind of a unique experience there.
Tips:
Room are cold when the whether outside is cold (They may be give heaters but we didn't ask, so we can't confirm that.)
Sound from the mosque could be a disturbance, better ask for an upstairs room.
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