Dutch Canals

Actually, it was not the Dutch ve built the Dutch canal! This part of the city is split in two, with a perfectly straight line. The channel then heads south towards the capital city, Colombo. This city was around at the time of the Portuguese colonization, and it looks like perhaps it was around even before that, in ancient times and the rein of Parakrama Bahu, in the 15th Century, the Sinhalese had a channel as a means of communication and transportation of goods. But the Dutch continued and the path widened to Puttalam in the north of the country. Now that is no longer used for leisure and small