Dalhousie, Sri Lanka

picture info	Dalhousie, Sri Lanka Dalhousie, Nallathanniya or Delhousie is a village in Nuwara Eliya District, Sri Lanka. The village is two hours from Hatton city and situated en route to Adam's Peak. The village borrowed its name from a nearby tea estate. See also Locations in Sri Lanka with a Scottish name This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been given to parts of Sri Lanka by Scottish planters. Almost without exception Scottish place names in Sri Lanka occur either in the Hill Country plantations or in Colombo. As the ... References Populated places in Nuwara Eliya District {{NuwaraEliyaDistrict-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Along The Way To Sri Pada From Dalhousie Along may refer to: * Along, Arunachal Pradesh, a town in India * Along Airport, an airport in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India * Along people, a Chinese ethnic group See also * Hạ Long Bay Hạ Long Bay or Halong Bay (, ) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and popular travel destination in Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam. The name Hạ Long means "descending dragon". Administratively, the bay belongs to Hạ Long city, Cẩm Phả c ... , a UNESCO World Heritage Site and popular travel destination in Quảng Ninh Province, Vietnam; commonly called ''baie d'Along'' by Francophones {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Nuwara Eliya District Nuwara Eliya District (; ) is a district in Central Province, Sri Lanka, centered on the tourist city of Nuwara Eliya. Demographics According to the 2001 census of Sri Lanka, population of Nuwara Eliya district is 703,610, of which 50.57% are Tamils of Indian origin, 40.17% Sinhalese, 6.55% native Sri Lankan Tamils and 2.35% Sri Lankan Moors. In terms of religion, 51.04% of the population are Hindu, 39.67% Buddhists, 4.98% Roman Catholics, 2.71% Muslims Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ... and 1.53% belong to non-catholic Christian denominations.Department of Census and Statistics official government website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and India in the northwest. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital of Sri Lanka, while the largest city, Colombo, is the administrative and judicial capital which is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Kandy is the second-largest urban area and also the capital of the last native kingdom of Sri Lanka. The most spoken language Sinhala language, Sinhala, is spoken by the majority of the population (approximately 17 million). Tamil language, Tamil is also spoken by approximately five million people, making it the second most-spoken language in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has a population of appr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Adam's Peak Adam's Peak is a conical sacred mountain located in central Sri Lanka.Capper, Daniel (2022), ''Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World,'' Cornell University Press. It is well known for the ''Sri Pada'' (; ), a rock formation near the summit whose name is also used for the mountain itself. In Buddhist tradition the print is held to be the footprint of the Buddha, in Sri Lankan Hindu tradition that of Hanuman or Shiva (its Tamil name, , ''Sivanolipaathamalai'', means 'Mountain of Shiva's Light'), and in some Islamic and Christian traditions that of Adam or St Thomas the Apostle. The mountain is also known as Mount Malaya in Buddhist sources, particularly the Mahayana ''Lankavatara Sutra'', which states that the Buddha preached this ''sutra'' on top of the mountain. According to this ''sutra'', the mountain was the abode of Ravana, overlord of the Rakshasas and ruler of Lanka. Other names in Sanskrit sources include Mount Lanka, Ratnagiri ("Mountain of Gems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Locations In Sri Lanka With A Scottish Name This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been given to parts of Sri Lanka by Scottish planters. Almost without exception Scottish place names in Sri Lanka occur either in the Hill Country plantations or in Colombo. As the Scottish coffee and tea planters, including Sri Lanka's first tea planter James Taylor, settled in the country, they named their plantations after their home towns in Scotland.Charles Hay Cameron and his sons named their estates after Lochiel and Erroll their ancestral peerages, as well as Moray, Forres, Glencairn and St Regulus. In Colombo, places were named after Sri Lanka's British governors including Thomas Maitland. Hill Country * Abbey Craig * Aberdeen Falls Senanayake 2004: 1 * Argyle * Arthur's Seat * Balmoral * Banff * Barcaple * Blair Atholl * Blinkbonney * Braemore * Braemar * Caledonia * Camnethan * Caskieben * Clydesdale * Craig * Craigie Lea * Cullen * Dalhousie * Dunbar * Dunsinane * Dunkeld * Edinburgh * Elgin - name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]