Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 9 Week 6 - My Trip My Adventure

Hello, my dear friends, as a family, we like to take many trips across the country. This time we traveled with our siblings and their families by hiring a 35-seater bus. Do you want to travel with me? If so, let's get going.

We traveled to Ella which is a very famous tourist destination in Sri Lanka. On the way to the Ella via Kandy and Nuwara Eliya we met this place. This location is known as Sita Amman Temple or Kovil. This place was close to Nuwara Eliya City, about a kilometer before the Haggala Botanical Garden.

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The Sitha Amman Temple is the only Hindu temple in Sri Lanka that is dedicated to Princess Sitha. This is one of the main Ramayana-related spots in Sri Lanka. When we saw this lovely place, we got off the bus and went there. In addition, this location had good parking slot. We observed that the soil in that area was different from ours. That was black in colour.

Because we stopped there early in the morning, the entire area was being cleaned using yellow water, at the time we entered there. In my group, I was the one who entered the temple first. Without realizing it, I entered the temple wearing shoes. One of the priests who were there, asked me to take them off my shoes and come back.🥱🥱 I then went back to the entrance and told others to follow me. After taking off our shoes, we all entered the temple. At that time, there weren't a lot of crowds. Being Buddhists, we had no idea how to act in that circumstance. But I kept my back to the temple tower and watched what other people were doing.

Later, we spoke with a temple priest and inquired about the significance of that location. He said it was mentioned in the legend that Hanumanjin had burned that area before departing Sri Lanka. He claimed that people believed that this is the reason for the black color of the soil. Whether it is believed or not, that is left to you. He also mentioned that it was believed by the tamils in that area, that King Ravavan put in prison Sitha Devi here. There were four separate temples for Rama, Sitha Devi, Lakshmana, and Hanuman.

We then moved on to the back side of the temple, where there were many stunning views to be watched. A lovely stream flowed behind the temple, and that area was absolutely beautiful. The water in the stream was very clear. It was breath taking to watch as the water flowed down the hill and into the stream to form a waterfall. A location where Rama was thought to have hidden Sitha was located beyond the stream.

After spending many hours admiring the beauty of that location and taking pictures, we left the area in order to travel to Haggala Botinical Garden.

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