WATER FALLS IN SRI LANKA
The mountains of Sri Lanka abound with waterfalls of exquisite beauty. Numbering more than hundred and many of them are virtually unknown, hidden away in forest or approached by steps and remote tea plantation tracks. In fact for it's size Sri Lanka has recorded water falls than another country.
Sri Lanka's numerous rivers, fed by two half – yearly monsoons, with topography of high and steeply scarped peneplains, and river beds of hard erosion-resistant metamorphic rock, all provide ideal ingredient for the formation of waterfalls.