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BOOK REVIEW TITLE : Adventure Tours in Sri Lanka (Sri Lankavē Kriyadama Charikā) AUTHOR : SHAMINDA RANSHAN FERNANDO PUBLISHER : AN AUTHOR PUBLICATION Reviewed by Hemantha Situge
BOOK REVIEW
TITLE : Adventure Tours in Sri Lanka
(Sri Lankavē Kriyadama Charikā)
AUTHOR : SHAMINDA RANSHAN FERNANDO
PUBLISHER : AN AUTHOR PUBLICATION
Reviewed by Hemantha Situge
e-mail : hsituge@gmail.com
blog : Hemantha Situge@blogspot.com
The magnum opus entitled : Adventure Tours
in Sri Lanka (Sri Lankāve Kriyadama
Charikā) written in Sinhalese, published by the author Shaminda Ranshan
Fernando was released recently.
The book is replete
with hundred and twelve pages in glossy paper of pure bliss. These 'dare devil'
adventures comprises trekking of sixty waterfalls and twenty peaks experienced
by the author an intrepid nature enthusiast and two of his adventurist
colleagues Akila Dayaratne and Malith Ebenayzer. The book is dedicated to the
sensitive environmentalist who loves and protects flora, rivers and waterfalls,
peaks, and valleys, tunnels and caves.
Once you read this
book you will not leave it aside. You are bound to re-read it! The book is a
nature adventurist enthusiasts miscellany. I am always reminded of the fascinated
colonial writers often quoted epithet : "Ceylon the Adam's Garden,"
when I got engrossed in reading this thought provoking book.
Reading
"Adventure Tours in Sri Lanka -Sri
Lankavē Kriyadamā Charika" is neither another reclined armchair
adventure episode that any traveller could experience and a wayfarer could
observe nor a fascinating story like Jungle Tide by John Still ; 'Seeing Ceylon'
- 'Discovering Ceylon' by Dr. R. L. Brohier that lingers with a sense of
nostalgia - they are all unremitting expeditions persevered by these three youth.
The writer Shaminda Ranshan Fernando's sensitive eye has envisioned what
'angels fear to tread' and has explored the unseen, unheard and has carved a niché in the annals of nature adventure explorations.
In my quest for
reading his adventure's what I could glean is that first twenty six experiences
the author Shaminda and two of his adventurist friends have 'dared' except
number twenty one the Para Motoring tour experience in the area of club Bentota
Hotel located in the islet jutted out to the sea all are upcountry caves, peak
and waterfall adventure trekking. Once I perused his preface and the twenty
ninth chapter only I could realize that these adventures of the 'dare devil'
adventurist 'were not gained in a sudden flight', but was in a span of seven
years.
Shaminda Ranshan's
travelogue is not a fiction like Jules Verne's '20000 leagues under the sea'.
This compendium contains secret tips, snippets for an adventurist that would crave
to encounter, and quench once thirst for adventure sans any risks in once life.
I commend author Shaminda Ranshan Fernando altruism for imparting his knowledge
for the guidance of the future adventurist explorations.'
This handy opus would
serve as a vade maecum for the nature
lover who would seek recourse to spend once leisure in the salubrious climes to
the true sense of the word : "Pearl of the Indian Ocean." Shaminda
Ranshan Fernando book entitled : "Adventure Tours in Sri Lanka (Sri Lankavē Kriyadama Charikā)" is an adventurists enthusiasts guide for the Sri Lanka's exploration of the nature's
true spectacle".
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