Sources & Credits
This site was built as an academic web development assignment. Every photograph is sourced from Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons licence, and every geographic or historical fact was checked against publicly available reference sources at the time of writing. Credits are listed below in full, as required by the assignment brief.
Photograph Credits
All photographs are reproduced under their original Creative Commons licences (CC BY-SA 4.0 unless noted) and are hotlinked directly from Wikimedia Commons via its stable Special:FilePath address. No image files were copied, edited or redistributed as part of this project.
- Panoramic banner of Ella — photograph by A.Savin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 / FAL. View source
- Nine Arches Bridge — Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 4.0. View source
- Nine Arches Bridge (alternate view) — Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 4.0, submitted via Wiki Loves Earth 2020. View source
- Views from Little Adam's Peak (two photographs) — photographs by A.Savin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 / FAL. View source category
- Tea plantation pathways near Little Adam's Peak (two photographs) — photographs by A.Savin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 / FAL. View source category
- Summit of Ella Rock — Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA. View source category
- Ravana Falls — photograph by A.Savin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 / FAL. View source category
- Ravana Cave — photograph by A.Savin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 / FAL. View source category
- Ravana Temple — photograph by A.Savin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 / FAL. View source category
- Railway track between Kandy and Ella — Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 4.0, submitted via Wiki Loves Earth 2019. View source
- Ella Valley, mountains in cloud — photograph by Vyacheslav Argenberg, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. View source
- Ella Valley, cloud forest — photograph by Vyacheslav Argenberg, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. View source
- Morning view over Ella — Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 4.0. View source category
- Sri Lankan rice and curry — Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA. View source
If any attribution above needs correcting, please treat this page as a living document — for a real deployment, each file's individual Commons page (linked above) carries the authoritative licence and author statement.
Information Sources
Geographic, historical and practical travel information was cross-checked against the following types of public sources:
- Wikipedia articles on Ella, Sri Lanka; the Nine Arch Bridge; and Ravana Ella (Ravana Falls), for location, elevation and historical background.
- Sri Lanka Railways public timetable information, for general journey-time guidance on the Kandy–Ella line.
- General published hiking and travel guides to Little Adam's Peak and Ella Rock, for trail duration and difficulty guidance.
Travel times, prices and seasonal patterns change — always confirm current details with an official source before booking travel.
Technology Credits
- Typefaces: Fraunces and Work Sans, both released under the SIL Open Font Licence and served via Google Fonts.
- Map: embedded Google Maps view of Ella, Sri Lanka.
- Icons: hand-drawn inline SVG icons created for this project.
- Built with HTML5, CSS3 and vanilla JavaScript — no external frameworks or libraries.