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Welcome to Dickwella

Dickwella is situated 180 km from the international airport, Most international flights arrive late evening or early morning and guests have an option of taking a vehicle or Air Taxi direct toDickwella Resort or stay overnight in Colombo.

The advantage of transferring by vehicle late evening or early morning is that the roads are quieter and the drive will take about 3 to 4 hours. Dikwella,which means

long bridge, is an unprepossessing coastal town 22km east of Matara. It is not mentioned in any of the old guide books, because it only started to attract foreign visitors in recent decades after guesthouses and a hotel sprung up along the beach. Buddhist pilgrims have also started to frequent Dikwella in the last thirty years, for about 2km from the town on the road towards Beliatte is their real destination, the Wewurukannala Vihara, the location of the tallest Buddha statue in Sri Lanka.

This is a seated image 50 metres high, which was completed in 1970. There is an eight-storey building behind that emphasizes the size of the statue. Inside is a staircase from which can be viewed comic strip paintings of the Buddha's life. 6km east of Dikwella at Kudawela there is a turning to the right that leads to a cliff where the only known blow-hole in Sri Lanka - and only one of a small number worldwide - is located.

This spectacular natural phenomenon is known as "Hoo-maniya" which is a rendering of the sound that it makes just before the water shoots up into the air. sometimes to a height of 20 metres or more. The fountain of water assumes a mushroom shape at its apex anddescends in a spray that drenches onlookers.

R. L. Brohier (in surprisingly recent times) was the first to describe this blow - hole in Seeing Ceylon (1965). The hoarse gurgling roar gathers in volume - then suddenly, a pillar of water churned to a dazzling whiteness gushes out somewhere up the cliff and for the moment you stand aghast Up, up it rushes, attaining even as much as 60 feet in height, then, standing vertically poised for a split second, it falls back in a glistening veil of spray.

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