KUMBUKKAN OYA CAVES

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Habitable, drip-ledged caves, some with rock inscriptions of the pre-Christian era (CEYLON TRAVELLER 1974: ?: 1983: 168) are ensconed in what appears to be a karst area in Miocene limestones where … large rock-outcrops of fanstastic shape rise from the flat terrain above the gently flowing waters of the Kumbukkan oya [note 1] that … contrasts with the surf of the sea coast that flanks Kumana to the east (see the –>Kumanu villu caves).Habitable, drip-ledged caves, some with rock inscriptions of the pre-Christian era (CEYLON TRAVELLER 1974: ?: 1983: 168) are ensconed in what appears to be a karst area in Miocene limestones where … large rock-outcrops of fanstastic shape rise from the flat terrain above the gently flowing waters of the Kumbukkan oya [note 1] that … contrasts with the surf of the sea coast that flanks Kumana to the east (see the –>Kumanu villu caves).