Corrosion Allowance

Have you ever been to the summit in Sri Pada?? Or have you ever seen the sun rise in the eastern horizon? Sri Pada, one of the best destinations in Sri Lanka where locals’ pilgrim to worship religious foot print and tourists come to see the sun rise through horizon. Lucky for me I have two times experienced the summit. But this is not about how my journey end up with, but this is about the mountain shadow phenomenon in Sri Pada which is more famous among foreigners though I was recently known about. Let’s get to the story. We started climbing mountain at 10.30 p.m. night from Nallathanniya and reached to the summit by 2.30 a.m. dawn and we waited there until morning to see the sun rise. The sun rises momentarily came around 6.22 a.m. in the morning and we all waited with pressure due to lack of space in the temple. Sooner seeing the sun rays I moved back letting others to see it and fortunately I saw the triangular shadow of Sri Pada in the western sky and it was a curious to...