Divurumpola Temple

Divurumpola Raja Maha Viharaya sits about 4 kilometres from Welimada on the Nuwara Eliya-Badulla road, and its name, meaning 'place of oath' in Sinhala, points directly to its Ramayana association: this is where Sita is said to have undergone Agni Pariksha, walking into fire to prove her purity to Rama after her rescue from Ravana. The temple is an active Buddhist site with its own stupa and Buddha statues, but also holds statues of Rama, Sita, and Hanuman inside the complex, drawing both Buddhist and Hindu Ramayana Trail visitors. It sits on the same Nuwara Eliya-Badulla corridor as Hakgala Botanical Garden and Seetha Amman Kovil, making it easy to combine into one hill-country Ramayana-themed day. Remove footwear before entering the shrine rooms, as at any active Buddhist temple.