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The
Ramboda Falls is one of many waterfalls in the
Sri Lanka highlands. It is situated in
Ramboda in Pusswllawa of Sri Lanka. Ramboda is located 3200 ft above sea level. The air is wet with moisture from the falls. Rambodde Falls comprise several waterfalls fed by small brooks that flow into the Panna Oya, a tributary of the Kotmale Oya. These falls are situated on the A5 road as it makes its tortuous way through the steep Rambodde Pass.
When you came to Ramboda place please stop your vehicle and visit go along the footpath at down side of the
Ramboda bridge and visit the Ramboda waterfall. The fall is located 1.5km from the highway at this point. It is 10km from Pusselawa Resthouse. upper Kotmale hydro-power project .
Near the Ramboda there is
longest road tunnel of Sri Lanka. It is made in 2006 -2007 years and also In Ramboda you can visit the Kothmale Valley and Kothmala Mahaweli Pagoda as well.
James Emerson Tennent writes of the road and the falls in Ceylon (1859): The road from Pussellawa winds through the valley skirting the bases of the hills, till it reaches an apparently insurmountable barrier of mountains in the glen of Rambodde. Here the acclivities that bound the ravine are overcome by a series of terraced windings, cut out of the almost precipitous hill; and so narrow is the gorge that the road enters between two cataracts that descend on either side of the pass.
Tennent refers to the biggest of the Rambodde Falls, the 109-metre high twin-fall, which flows over the rock ledge north of the A5. This, incidentally, is the 10th highest fall in Sri Lanka. There is a smaller fall of 30 metres that crosses the A5 at Rambodde village.
Tennent goes on to describe some of the remarkable insects to be found by these falls: In the damp shade near these waterfalls the delicate spectre butterfly is seen in unusual numbers, its broad and limber wings undulating as if unequal to sustain its weight, and over the streams the brilliant dragon-fly dashes from place to place, on wings that flash like sliced emeralds set in gold.