My
footprints throughout SRI LANKA
Inviting Terrains
Of
Kadugannawa
Old Ambalama
Towards the hairpin bend &
bored rock
Anyone traveling to Kandy along the
Colombo-Kandy Road has to negotiate many bends - some of them hairpin bends -
as they go up the Kadugannawa incline. At the last and sharpest
of these bends, the road forks; and one goes through a tunnel, wide and high
enough for a bus or lorry to pass. The other road makes a wider bend and goes a
few feet over the rock
Dawson Tower
The road connecting Colombo and
Kandy is the first main road
constructed in Ceylon, construction
work began in 1820 under
the supervision of William Francis
Dawson assisted by Major
Skinner, during British rule.
Captain Dawson died before the
completion of the project and the
Dawson Tower was erected
in his memory in 1832. at Kadugannawa.
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