Waterfalls are a recurrent sight in the central highlands of Sri Lanka. I was born in a house facing the Alupola water falls in Rathnapura. Its soothing rumble was the melody I heard throughout my childhood. For a foreigner apart from their beauty, they generate strange reactions.
While working as a Consultant Surgeon at the National Hospital, Sri Lanka (NHSL), we had a batch of trainee nurses from the Maldives, attached to the Operating theater where I did my surgery. They were quite sociable. They did a weekend trip to the Central Highlands capital, Nuwara Eliya. They were wonder struck by the scenery. One question kept nagging their minds. The query was ' Where does all that water in the water falls come from?' Coming from Maldives a country of Islands with no hills, it was understandable.
