Mirissa

                 While travelling along Galle road there can be seen a small fishing village called Mirissa  5km  to matara  from Weligama. Major occupation of villagers is fishing, as so the village posses the largest fishing harbor in the area. I’m very proudly say that Mirissa is my hometown.

                      Tourism also take a major role in the villagers income earning process. Giragala , Garanduwa lagoon, ancient weheragalla temple(Buddhist) , and the breathtaking beach attract foreigners. Mirissa is world famous as it’s a best place to watch Whales, and a paradise for wave surfing.

             
                           Year 2004 was a very fruitfull one to the villagers as lots of foreigners came to the village but the happy which they earned in 2004 couldn’t be able to continue to the next year. At 9.20 am of 24^th December in 2004 the tsunami wave hit the village and carried out thousands of villagers and tourisms who were in the beach at that time. Hundreds of buildings were vanished within one minute.

               It says that the tsunami wave had come to a hight of fifteen feet, anyhow nature couldn’t break down the villagers will though it broken all physical assets. Within one year period Mirissa was built as the morning which it was in 24^th December before the wave come.

                       

                               Now all are in happy they don’t even feel they were affected by the cruelty of the nature. Protecting the name of down south Mirissa contributes to the National Income……………………..