Kitulgala
Sign in to saveKitulgala is a small town in the west of Sri Lanka. The Academy Award-winning The Bridge on the River Kwai was filmed on the Kelani River near Kitulgala, although nothing remains now except the concrete foundations for the bridge. Kitulgala is also a base for white-water rafting, which starts a few kilometres upstream and also popular as a location for adventure based training programs.
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- Locality
- Pelenda
- Region
- Western Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Located in
- Sabaragamuwa Province
- Elevation
- 830
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Image
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- Kitulgala
- postal code
- 71720
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- Scene creation of the movie ''The Bridge on the River Kwai''
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Kitulgala is a small town in the west of Sri Lanka. The Academy Award-winning The Bridge on the River Kwai was filmed on the Kelani River near Kitulgala, although nothing remains now except the concrete foundations for the bridge. Kitulgala is also a base for white-water rafting, which starts a few kilometres upstream and also popular as a location for adventure based training programs.
==Features== thumb|left|Crossing the river The Kelani river is wide at Kitulgala, but it is shallow apart from a deep channel near the opposite bank, so in the drier months it provides a safe and attractive place to swim, wash and play.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kitulgala” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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