Lover’s Leap waterfall is a 98-foot falls located just outside the Nuwara Eliya town and is a popular attraction for those visiting the town. Its source is the many streams that runoff from the country’s tallest mountain, Pidurutalagala, which stands like a sentinel over the town of Nuwara Eliya. The legend behind the name lover’s leap waterfall. States that once a prince was lost while out hunting and was rescued by a damsel whom he fell in love with. Realizing that the relationship would never last due to its unpopularity of it amongst his subjects, the amorous couple leaped to their death off the cliff at the head of the falls.

Written by Jonathan Roelofsz for Travel Lanka Compass