A visit to the Kurunduwatta village
Writing by kosala on Friday, 15 of September , 2006 at 4:43 pm
We started our journey at about 1.00p.m. Destination was a temple in Kurunduwatta. Kurunduwatta is about 15 km from Gampola and it’s a suburban area situated in the Dolosbage Mountains. Fore of us traveled in the etuktuk, Asanka the driver, Anil the program producer, Prasanna volunteer, and me. The road was hilly and we had to drive slowly. It took about 45 minutes to get to the temple.
It was their annual meeting of the village welfare society. The villagers had organized a small cultural show in the temple after the meeting. When we got there the meeting was about to start. Therefore we had to stay two more hours until the meeting end. We decided to leave the temple for the time being and come back in two hours.
Kurunduwatta area is a partly remote place. Public transportation is comparatively less. The terrain is covered with tea plantation at some areas. Paddy is a common site. Most people in the area travel to the nearby city ‘Gampola’ to work. Others do farming, day to day labor etc. Kurunduwatta town is a developing small town. Most basic facilities of the town are still under construction.
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