In the central highlands diyatalawa sri lanka that has served as weekend getaway for the local residents of Srilanka as well as tourists from across the globe. Diyatalawa houses the Diyatalawa Garrison of the Srilankan army including the military army. Diyatalawa in a nutshell is a place where most of the defense and service forces have their base or headquarters located. Officer training center of the army, ground combat training center of the Srilankan Air force, Sri Lankan police facilities center so on and so forth are all housed in Diyatalawa.
Diyatalwa has a lot of history related to the world wars. Both World War 1 and world war -2 left a severe impact on Duyaltalawa. The place had concentration camps where prisoners of the second Boer war were retained. From world war -2, German national residents along with several sailors were removed for flouting international law. Even Buddhist monks like Nyanaponika and GovindAnagarika were imprisoned for acquiring British citizenship.
Not everything about Diyatalawa is bloody and brutal. The region also served as a resting place for the Royal Navy after the war. The recreational facilities of Diyatalwa were used by the royal Navy often. It was in 1952 after Srilanka gained its independence in 1948, the Royal Air Force established Sri Lanka Air Force at Diyatalawa.
Events at Diyatalawa
You name Diyatalwa and the instant association is with a motor cross that is held here. This premier motor racing event is arranged by the Srilanka military academy that without a wink set Diyatalwa as the venue. Fox hill is a prominent destination in Diyatalawa. It received this interesting name after an image of fox was carved on a slope facing the railway station of Diyatalawa with several scattered rocks all over the hill.
There is also another hill-Stag hill. The hill gets the name in a similar fashion as fox hill does.
Diyatalawa climate
Located between the hill stationof Haputale and Bandarawela of central highlands, Diyatalawa offers relatively colder weather. The weather her is lot cooler compared the lowlands of Srilanka. During the Christmas it is highly recommended that you carrywarmers or thermals as the nights can get extremely colder. You might even get to see frost.Ambalangoda has interesting places worth visiting in your Srilanka tour package, especially the
