Karu della: the Buddhist architectural history's first hollow tower

Every time I go to the south, we drove to the driver to Sri Lanka in about an hour's drive from the local, make no reply to stop, to the donation box under the bodhi tree put into a few coins, as several Yi, then continue on the road. This is the local custom, not only our driver, the other drivers are so. For a long time, this just know, originally Karu della this place has a very famous stupa. This pagoda, the unique Karu della (Kalutara) is the first city of Colombo south, 42 kilometers away from colombo. There is a river, called the Karoo River (KaluGanga), city in the Karoo River, hence the name.

When the car to the Karu della bridge, a shining silverWhite Pagoda, immediately attract people's attention. That is Gen Gatirak pagoda (Gangatileka), a landmark in Karu della. That tower, is also a temple. The ancient tower, mostly solid, with soil or bricks, leiqi. The tower is a hollow, built in the 60's of the last century.

The tower has a big round, which is unique in the history of Buddhism architecture world. The interior has a small pagoda, small pagodas around four statue of Buddha enshrined as beautiful decoration. Surrounded by a wall mural, the Buddha 72 body phase, that is before the birth of Shakya Muni the reincarnation of the 72 story. A small window fresco below, through the small window can watch the Karoo River and the panorama of the city. Karu della was a Portuguese rubber production base,HollandPeople andBritainOne of the most important spice trade center. Can now see Holland residence Holland castle ruins and Karu della a backstreet walls shade under the shade. But the Spice Garden in the early days of British rule has become a rubber plantation. See these, kaxrud people, especially the elderly can easily recall the colonial past.

Karu della is now the country's largest production base of rubber. From Karu della to walk a few kilometers, can see the rubber forest tracts, tapping workers in the tree tapping, rubber labor scene. Near the rubber factory, where, can see the rubber juice into process of rubber sheet. Karu della to produce tropical fruit mangosteen (mangosteens) famous, "after the village, not the store", in just this one. Other parts of the mangosteen are here wholesale. This fruit is not well preserved, time of year 5 - July mangosteen ripe, here on both sides of the road filled with stalls, attracted many customers to taste, to buy. This thing, a bit like Litchi Litchi, not so sweet, but taste particularly good, eat not to get angry. If you meet, don't miss oh.

The landscape here the achievements of the two artists Karu della scenery the achievements of the two women. They were once the residents here. Julia Margaret Cameron (JuliaMargaret, Cameron) in 1863, when she was 48 years old, started in photography, the first use of softfocus for portrait photography, soon became the central figure in the field of new media. She made many portraits of celebrities, including a portrait of Charles Darwin, there are landscapes. She also filmed some of the women of Karu della portrait, inLondonThe National Portrait gallery. Marianne North (MarianneNorth) is a very famous botanical artists, in 1877, and Cameron together. Here has created many art works, including the Karu della painting from Cameron's balcony overlooking, London KewGardens. Karu della out of the two artists, although not the people, but the people here talk about them, always with some pride.