Saturday Sep 21, 2024
Saturday Sep 21, 2024
Friday, 20 December 2019 00:00 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}}
The magnum opus entitled ‘Adventure Tours in Sri Lanka (Sri Lankawe Kriyadama Charika) Part Two’ written in Sinhalese, published by the author Shaminda Ranshan Fernando, was released recently.
 |
Author: Shaminda
|
 |
The book is replete with 180 pages in glossy paper of pure bliss. These ‘dare devil’ adventures comprise trekking of about 40 waterfalls, 50 peaks and a few caves and more hidden attractions experienced by the author an intrepid nature enthusiast and four of his adventurist colleagues.
The book is dedicated to the sensitive environmentalist who loves and protects flora, rivers and waterfalls, peaks, and valleys, tunnels and caves.
Once you read this book you will not leave it aside. You are bound to re-read it! The book is a nature adventurist enthusiast’s miscellany. I am always reminded of the fascinated colonial writers often quoted epithet ‘Ceylon the Adam’s Garden,’ when I got engrossed in reading this thought provoking book.
Reading ‘Adventure Tours in Sri Lanka – Sri Lankawe Kriyadama Charika -Part Two” is neither another reclined armchair adventure episode that any traveler could experience and a wayfarer could observe nor a fascinating story like ‘Jungle Tide’ by John Still; ‘Seeing Ceylon – Discovering Ceylon’ by Dr. R. L. Brohier that lingers with a sense of nostalgia – they are all unremitting expeditions persevered by these three youth.
The writer Shaminda Ranshan Fernando’s sensitive eye has envisioned what angels fear to tread and has explored the unseen, unheard and has carved a niche in the annals of nature adventure explorations.
In my quest for reading his adventures what I could glean is that all 50 articles experiences the author Shaminda and two of his adventurist friends have ‘dared’ except the hot air ballooning tour experience in the area of Kandalama Lake located in the islet jutted out to the equipped tour all are upcountry caves, peak and waterfall adventure trekking.
Once I perused his preface and the some chapters only I could realise that these adventures of the dare devil adventurist were not gained in a sudden flight but was in a span of nine years. Because of there were few newest findings such as the highest peak of Uva Province, Kirigalpotta peak in Knuckles, virgin Bumara Fall chain and Haritha Kanda.
Shaminda Ranshan’s travelogue is not a fiction like Jules Verne’s ‘4000 leagues under the sea’. This compendium contains secret tips, snippets for an adventurist that would crave to encounter, and quench once thirst for adventure sans any risks in once life. I commend author Shaminda Ranshan Fernando’s altruism for imparting his knowledge for the guidance of the future adventurist explorations.
This handy opus would serve as a vade mecum for the nature lover who would seek recourse to spend once leisure in the salubrious climes to the true sense of the word ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’. Shaminda Ranshan Fernando’s book entitled ‘Adventure Tours in Sri Lanka (Sri Lankawe Kriyadama Charika) Part Two’ is an adventure enthusiast’s guide for the Sri Lanka’s exploration of the nature’s true spectacle.
This amazing guide book printed in art paper full colour includes comprehensive articles about adventure attractions for more than 100 places in Sri Lanka. Those articles are including of all the information about the trek, guide details, special land marks, GPS coordination and Google digital map with many colour photos.
Further this book also has special articles about the dozens of Mini World’s Ends in Sri Lanka and the GPS coordination for 180 waterfalls with dividing to 15 major routes and an article about handling offline Google maps for navigating purposes.
– Hemantha Situge
