Rock Climbing & Caving

Some of the island.s caves date back 500 million years, so this activity provides a trip into the past! Try the Beli Lena Caves that are five kilometres up a mountain road just outside Kitulgala, between the 38 and 39km posts. It is here that a head and many bones were found of Balangoda Man, including a child dating back over 30,000 years.

Rock-climbing is a relatively new activity in Sri Lanka. The rugged terrain of the Knuckles Mountain Range offers some advantageous locations for this sport, and scaling the rock-face of Bambarakanda waterfall, Sri Lanka's highest, is exhilarating. Sri Lanka has many caves, which has given rise to the activity of caving.

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