Hikkaduwa City
Famous for its long sandy beach, west-coast Hikkaduwa also boasts good waves for surfers, reefs for snorkelers and divers, plus sand-side hotels, restaurants, and bars. Add an island temple, tsunami museum, and turtle sanctuary, and you have one of Sri Lanka’s best beach-holiday haunts.
ペラリヤ仏像
ヒッカドゥワの北 3.5 km にあるこの荒れ果てた私設博物館は、2004 年にインド洋の津波がヒッカドゥワとスリランカを襲ったあの恐ろしい日の様子を写真や新聞の特集を通じて伝えています。すべての照明が非常に悪く表示されていますが、ここにある画像を見ると沈黙してしまうので、それは問題ではありません。
コミュニティ津波博物館で、2004 年の津波の歴史を巡る感動の旅に出かけましょう。この博物館は、多くの命を奪った 2004 年の悲劇を追悼するとともに、津波の危険性について地域社会に教育しています。ツアーは地質学的説明から始まり、津波がどのように発生するか、どのように測定されるか、そして津波が襲来したときに被害を最小限に抑えるために警報システムが何をできるかについて説明します。引き続き、津波後の地域の写真を見て、災害がスリランカにどのような影響を与えたか、そして人々が島全体の被害を修復するためにどのように団結したかを感じてください。生き残った人々の話を読んで、この悲劇の本当の恐怖を感じてください。コミュニティ津波博物館。
About Galle District
Galle is a city situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, 119 km from Colombo. Galle is the best example of a fortified city built by Europeans in south and Southeast Asia, showing the interaction between European architectural styles and south Asian traditions. The Galle fort is a world heritage site and the largest remaining fortress in Asia built by European occupiers.
Galle is a sizeable town, by Sri Lankan standards, and has a population of 91,000, the majority of whom are of Sinhalese ethnicity. There is also a large Sri Lankan Moor minority, particularly in the fort area, which descend from Arab merchants that settled in the ancient port of Galle.
About Southern Province
The Southern Province of Sri Lanka is a small geographic area consisting of the districts of Galle, Matara and Hambantota. Subsistence farming and fishing is the main source of income for the vast majority of the people of this region.
Important landmarks of the Southern Province include the wildlife sanctuaries of the Yala and Udawalawe National Parks, the holy city of Kataragama, and the ancient cities of Tissamaharama, Kirinda and Galle. (Although Galle is an ancient city, almost nothing survives from before the Portuguese invasion.) During the Portuguese period there were two famous Sinhalese poets called Andare who was from Dickwella and Gajaman Nona who was from Denipitiya in Matara District, composing poems on common man.