Soora Saradiyel back at alive - උතුවන්කන්දේ සූර සරදියෙල් ගම්මානය
The local Robin Hood or Soora Saradiyel of Uthuwankanda is a great character over centuries providing basement for tons of legends. Uthuwana / Uthuwankanda area nearby Mawanella town has evidences for all of these stories. There is a great attraction of Local and Foreign tourists Uthuwan kanda called Saradiyel Village recreating these legends and bring back them alive.
Saradiyel Village is located about 2Km away from Colombo - Kandy highway near by Mawanella. About 6Acre area has been utilized to create this 19th century traditional village. Everything built in cement amazingly to feel they are really live. There's also a tour guide doing excellent job by explaining each and every indecent of Saradiyel story and major attractions of a 19th century village in Sri Lanka.
Entrance fee is 100Rs for a local visitor and it's a really reasonable rate when comparing with the service they provide. It does take about 1 - 2 hour to complete the trail including all explanations. Monument shop is also full with traditional equipment and foods.
The whole Soora Saradiiyel village is still under construction and will be completed soon. Access road is little bit hard and steep but easily could reach with a car. It's highly recommended to visit there if you are passing Mawanella and having little spare time.
For us an my children this is a valuable treat specially as Saradiel is one one connected as a story of the Golden lion family tree. Ranasinghe Arachchige Don Manuel & Mary Perera (R.A.D. Manuel)-Proprietor Don Manuel & Company-COACH BUILDERS Located at now Rowlands Garage Colpetty) had 13 children consisting 3 sets of twins - only 7 Children survived. R.A.D. Manual was a Coach Builder by profession and owned horses and carriages. He was also a Renter (which means - he owned Taverns.) The oldest story we have on record is the f ...more
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ReplyDeleteNot about the concert work but about the service we got.
ReplyDeleteThis is the review I posted on Google.
I attached the photos. Are the officers aware of these expensive toilets? Honestly!
Saradiel Home Stay from Mawanella responded. This is not the one in MAwanella.
The place we visited-
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Sorry, there is no star below one.
We booked a room and went a bit earlier. None took any notice, not even to take our stuff in. I waited for more than one hour in the reception area. There was a customer lounge. Nobody ever looked at us. Finally, I asked for a glass of water. The woman waitress tossed her head, asking me to go to the rear area and serve myself. So dumb, never seen a smile.
There were rooms with easy accessibility. But we were sent to a 150m high hilly and rocky area where the dirtiest rooms were. We were never given a helping hand to carry our luggage. Monsters. They charged us service charges too.
The room was dirty. Poor maintenance. One example is the toilet seat cover, which was never changed after Saradiel's demise. Dirty, brownish, with stool remnants, it smells like hell. The room given to us was in
bushland with no facilities. No tea or anything. We drank dirty, rusty, pipe-born water. Nothing at all for a visitor. But the housekeeper was trying to allure our son to get some (illegal, locally made -kasippu- ) liquor.
During our entire stay, they never changed the bedding or cleaned the room, bathroom, or toilet.
This is a shame for a nice country like Sri Lanka. I am sending the photos and challenging them to prove I am wrong. There is a Rs100,000 bet.