Walapane
Walapane is a town located in Nuwara Eliya District of Sri Lanka.
Walapane is a town located in Nuwara Eliya District of Sri Lanka. It is a high country area with many green mountains. It was called Wathtumulla in the past. The name Watumulla derived from the former tea factory which was located in the heart of the Walapane town and now demolished since the production of Wattumulla Plantation declined. Walapane is administered by the government of *Sri Lanka through *Walapane Divisional Secretariat.
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Getting to Walapane
- Airports
- Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 97 km · Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 111 km · Jaffna (JAF), 283 km
- Colombo → Walapane113 km · quickest by road, 4h 17m · Rs1,650–2,210
- Jaffna → Walapane301 km · quickest by road, 9h 4m · Rs3,540–4,730
- Thiruvananthapuram → Walapane458 km · quickest by air, 9h 30m · ₹16,760–25,550
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No local-transport research exists yet for Walapane
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Walapane. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSigiriya Airport () has scheduled helicopter and light aircraft flights from Colombo (mostly), Hambantota and Trincomalee.
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