Diyaluma Falls

With its impressive heigt of 220m, Diyaluma is the 2nd highest waterfall in Sri Lanka and is often mistaken to be the highest. It is located 6 km away from Koslanda in Badulla District and flows towards KirindiOya underneath a bridge on the highway from Beragala to Wellawaya. The name in Sinhalese language means “rapid flow of water” and it lives up to its name specially in the rainy season. According to a local legend, Gods, seeing the heartbreak of a prince whose runaway romance ended in the death of his sweetheart whom he had tried to haul over the Diyaluma precipice, created this beautiful cascade to weep forever in the wilderness. The top of the fall is famous as a camping site.