Rumassala Mountain Rumassala is a hilly peninsula which lies between Unawatuna beach & Magalle bay. Rumassala, known to some as Buona Vista( pleasant view), is the subject of many legends. It features in the Ramayana, as the home of the beautiful Queen Sita, hidden in the jungle nearby. According to the Ramayana,during the battle between the Indian King Rama & Ravana of Sri Lanka, the monkey God, Hanuman was sent to the Himalayas to fetch a medicinal plant for the wounded Lakshman( Rama's brother). The herbs were namely Mritasanjeevani, Bidhalayakarani, Suvarnakarani & Sandhani. But he was unable to find the plant, so he removed a plant of the Himalayan Mountain on which the plant was said to grow. He dropped a chunk at Unawatuna ("here it fell") to from the Rumassala headland. Many medicinal plants still grow on Rumassala , popular amongst ayurvedic doctors and meficine - men. Rumassala hill gives you a beauti...
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