Meethotamulla garbage mountain aftermath from Google Earth

It’s less than a year after the Meethotamulla garbage mountain collapsed. After the usual media flare, the tragedy has faded from the public minds-cape. Yet Mount Meethotamulla is still in the landscape refusing to go away. Post collapse Google Earth screen grab below show the post collapse spread. Which smothered communities and lives. The landslide …

Sri Lanka’s political circus from Google Earth

Lipton Circus in Colombo is a frequent staging area for the theatrics of political demonstrations. Perhaps one of the few things we Sri Lankans are consistently good at. Colombo has very few public spaces such as Times or Tiananmen square. As you can see from the google earth screen shot in this post, the circus …

Updated: Satellite images of northern Sri Lanka

Google has updated its satellite imagery for parts of Sri Lanka. Pictured below is one of the revelations of this update: the largest runway constructed by the LTTE terrorists. It is located near Mulativu. It is possibly the largest air strip ever build by a terrorist group. The Youtube video at the end of this …

Google Earth Sri Lanka posts: 1000+ days later

According to my trusty day counter its been well over a 1000 days since I started my rather eccentric "tradition" of posting Google Earth images of Sri Lanka. For the big picture, there's the recently updated archive page. According to a poll I "conducted" a while back, a majority of respondents thought favourably of the …

Kirigalpoththa Mountain from Google Earth

Kirigalpoththa is Sri Lanka's second highest mountain. I learnt that from Sri Lankan hiking blog with the same name that I introduced a while back. Along with giving boots on the trail accounts of hiking in Sri Lanka Kirigalpoththa the blogger tends to put up photos of some stunning places in Sri Lanka that awe …