Ramayana Trail

The legend of Rama – Prince of Ayodhya unswervingly confronts and overcomes fearsome odds in the form of Ravana the mighty demon king of Lanka, has left behind a rich legacy of sites and temples in the county where the most significant events of this epic took place – Lankapura – Si Lanka.

Sri Lanka is the proud custodian of more that 50 Ramayana sites from the place of Seetha Devi’s captivity to the battle fields where vast enemies clashed, to the groves of exotic herbs dropped by the Monkey God Hanuman, to the ultimate theatre of war where Lord Rama slew King Ravana. People living in the areas where great events took place remember to this day the connection of their soil to the great epic. An oath taken taken at the spot where Seetha Devi undertook “Agni Pariksha” is still considered valid in village courts or Grama Sabhas. the color of the soil in those ancient battlefields are still red today and is still surrounded by lighter colored earth. one of the airports torched by Hanuman when he came looking for Seetha Devi still has a scorched-earth look.  Exotic Himalayan species are found suddenly amidst tropical Sri Lankan vegetation – the legacy of Hanuman’s heroic voyage carrying a mountain of life-restoring herbs.

Incredibly the names of places have come down to modern times unchanged, though great social, cultural and religious changes have since taken place in Sri Lanka. anybody wishing to sign-up for this tour which is more a pilgrimage (with self-organized bhajan by the devotees) will see the Sri Lankan Glimpses of this legacy and a glorious age whose events define and guide us to this day.