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Wildlife safari, Udawalawe national park |
Wildlife safari, Udawalawe national park |
<ul>Udawalawe national park is famous for its large herd of the Asian elephant and water buffaloes, situated 165 km from Colombo in the southeastern part of the country. The park is covered with open grassland and thorny – shrub jungle which remembering the Game Parks in Africa. Due to this landscape, Udawalawe is the best park to watch and photograph a large herd of wild Asian elephants.<br>
<br>The large scattered areas of grasslands and thorny-shrubs while tall trees close to Walawe River most favours for birdlife where Large prinia, White-browed prinia, Ashy prinia, Franklins prinia, Yellow-eyed babbler, White-throated babbler, White-rumped shama, Brown-capped babbler, Black-fronted babbler, Common & Marshall’s Iora, Ceylon grey hornbill, Blue-faced malkoha, White-necked Stork, Lesser Adjutant Stork, Blyth’s Pipit, Ceylon Jungle Fowl, etc. are common. </ul> |
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Hummanaya, the natural blowhole |
Hummanaya, the natural blowhole |
<ul><p>The natural blowhole in Kudawella is locally known as “Hummanaya”, located 11 km away from Tangalle. Hummanaya has considered the second largest blowhole in the world. The water ejection scene is created by the upward ejection of a jet of seawater spray into the air through a crevice in the rock.<br>The spray is reaching 25 to 30 m in height.</p><p><br></p><p>Read more on Hummanaya Blowhole:</p><p><a href="https://www.fantasiatours.com/blogs/view-blog/hummanaya-the-second-largest-blowhole-in-the-world" target="_blank">https://www.fantasiatours.com/blogs/view-blog/hummanaya-the-second-largest-blowhole-in-the-world</a></p><p> </p></ul> |
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Ussangoda, Ramayana site |
Ussangoda, Ramayana site |
<ul>Ussangoda is a pre-historic archaeological site as well as a National Park located 28 km from Tangalle. The earth of the Ussangoda area is dark red. It is due to the high concentration of Ferric oxide on the earth in that area. The vegetation comprises moss, short grass, and bush. At the coast, cliffs are hangover a sandy beach.</br>
<br>Ussangoda has a connection with the Indian Epic “Ramayana”. According to that Ussangoda was one airport used by King Ravana to land his peacock chariot. The legend monkey God “Hanuman” decided to test the strength of King Ravana’s Army. In the event, Hanuman was unfolded and the tail of hanuman was set on fire by King Ravana’s army. Then he managed to touch some parts of King Ravana’s empire which get fired. Ussangoda is a part of King Ravan’s empire and that’s how the soil of the area gets red in colour according to the legend. |
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Temple paintings, Mulkirigala temple |
Temple paintings, Mulkirigala temple |
<ul>Mulkirigala temple is located 20 km away from Tangalle. It is a rock temple with 7 caves in different altitudes up to 206 m. This was built in the 3rd century AD and the present Buddha images and paintings were belong to the Kandyan Period. The well-preserved sculptures and paintings depicting Jataka stories and the life of Lord Buddha are a masterwork of the Kandyan era's southern tradition Sri Lankan art. </ul> |
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Buddha statue, Wewrukannala temple |
Buddha statue, Wewrukannala temple |
<ul>The largest seated Buddha image in Sri Lanka is situated at Wewrukannala Buduraja Maha Viharaya near Dickwella. It is about 17 km away from Tangalle. The 18th-century image house with sculptures and paintings, demonstration of "Hell", and the gigantic seated Buddha statue are the highlights of this temple. </ul> |
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Weligama beach |
Weligama beach |
<ul>Weligama literally “Sandy Village”, also referred as ‘Red Bay’ due to its rose-red cliffs is the stunning stretch of the bay beach around the island of Taprobane located 144 km south of Colombo.</br>
<br>Taprobane island is the most striking feature of the Weligama bay beach. It is located just offshore with a covering of luxuriant trees. The eastern part of Weligama beach favours for surfing. |
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Bird Park, Hambantota |
Bird Park, Hambantota |
Birds Park, Hambantota is located 48km northeast of Tangalle. It is considered to be Asia's largest Birds Park and Research Centre with around 3200 birds in 180 different varieties. |
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Colonial Buildings, Colombo |
Colonial Buildings, Colombo |
<ul><p>Few Dutch architecture and British architecture style buildings remain in Colombo. </p><p><br></p><p>Among them, Wolvendaal Church built-in 1749, St. Lucia's Cathedral Kotahena built-in 1782, Old Colombo Dutch hospital built-in 1681, and Colombo Dutch Museum (Dutch Governors' office built-in 1656) are the remaining Dutch architecture style buildings in Colombo.</p><p><br>
Galle Face Hotel, GOH hotel, Townhall Colombo, General Post Office Colombo, Colombo National Museum, Old Parliament building are some of the iconic British architecture style buildings in Colombo. </p></ul> |
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Udawalawe elephant transit home |
Udawalawe elephant transit home |
<ul>Udawalawe elephant transit home, located bordering Udawalawa reservoir within the Udawalawe national park is an orphanage for refuge baby elephants who are destitute, wounded, or motherless. It provides shelter, food, and security until the elephants are big and strong enough to be released back to the wilderness to start their normal life.</br>
<br>Milk feeding for the little calves is a fascinating scene to watch. That is happening every 3 hours daily. Visitors can see the baby elephant feeding at 9.00 am, 12.00 noon, 3.00 pm, and 6.00 pm. |
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Sinharaja forest reserve, World heritage site |
Sinharaja forest reserve, World heritage site |
<ul>Sinharaja forest reserve has been nominated as a Biosphere reserve and a World heritage site by UNESCO due to its’ biodiversity importance. It is located 73 km west of Udawalawe, 77 km east of Galle, and 78 km north of Tangalle.<br>
<br>This last extensive patch of virgin rainforest in Sri Lanka has covered 8,864 ha. It is only 21 km from east to west and a maximum of 7 km from north to south. However, the endemism of this small forest patch is extremely high. The bird endemism is the highest, 29 endemic birds in Sri Lanka out of 34 have been recorded in Sinharaja. Endemism among amphibians, mammals, and butterflies is also greater than 50%. The endemic reptiles of green pit viper and hump-nosed vipers can be found in this forest reserve. There are few elephants (3-4) and about 15 Leopards have recorded in the forest reserve but due to dense vegetation, wildlife is not easy to trace. However, the endemic mammal purple-faced langur can be seen commonly in the reserve. The inevitable leeches are common in the Sinharaja forest reserve.<br>
<br>Sinharaja forest receives between 3000-6000 mm of rain and has between 18-27° C mean temperature throughout the year and the humidity is between 75% - 90%. All these conditions favours Sinharaja to have a wild profusion of flora. The top canopy trees layer has a height up to 45 m and the next layer down topping 30m. Out of 217 woody trees and lianas in Sinharaja 139 are endemic.<br>
<br>Sinharaja has an intricate network of streams. The Napola Dola and Koskulana Ganga from the north, Maha Dola, and Gin Ganga from the south-west and the Kalukandawa Ela and Kudawa Ganga from the west crisscrossed each other. These waterways are formed beautiful waterfalls in Snharaja. Some of them are Duwili Ella, Kekuna Ella, Thattu Ella, Pathanoya Ella, Malmora Ella, Brahmana Ella, Uran Wetuna Ella, and Galdoruwa Ella. Among them, Duwili Ella would be the most beautiful.
The forest reserve has a rolling terrain that encompasses a series of ridges and valleys spread over a broad elevation range from 300 m to 1150m. Hinipitigala (1150 m), Tibbottagala (904m), Kosgulana (797m), Dotalugala (769m), Moulawella (760m), Sinhagala (742m), and Kohilearambe (575m) are the significant ridges in Sinharaja.<br>
<br>The lifetime experience of the real beauty of nature catch with a glimpse of rare flora and fauna can only be accessible by trekking inside the Sinharaja with an excellent guide. You will be able to explore the mystery of the virgin rainforest and indulge in once-in-a-lifetime photography. That may avoid the strain uncounted in challenging trails.</ul> |
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Colombo sightseeing |
Colombo sightseeing |
<ul>Colombo city tour has planned to explore Colombo (Galbokka Point) Lighthouse, the lighthouse with clock tower, Wolvendall Church, Dutch Museum, Maritime Museum, National Museum, Galle faces Green, Colombo Townhall, Gangarama temple, a Hindu temple, a garden, a shopping mall and many more that expose the vibrant Sri Lankan culture heritage and travellers most want to capture by their camera.</br>
<br>The tour could be on open deck city sightseeing or by Tuk-Tuk, the most frequent transport mode use in Asia and it will full-day, half a day, or night tour, both depending on your interest.</ul> |
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Bird watching, Sinharaja forest reserve |
Bird watching, Sinharaja forest reserve |
<ul>The mixed-species feeding flocks are common in rainforests. The Sinharaja rainforest mixed-species feeding flocks of birds are been studied since 1981. This longest-running field study of the world has revealed that Sinharaja mixed bird species flocks are the largest in the world with an average attendance of 41 individuals. They have observed 59 individuals belongs to 21 species participate in feeding flocks. Around 20 of the 33 endemic birds of Sri Lanka can be seen in Sinharaja and sometimes 6 of them are in feeding flocks.</br>
<br>The birds can be seen in a flock including species such as the Ceylon Hanging-parrot, Green-billed Coucal, Red-faced Malkoha, Yellow-fronted Barbet, Ashy-headed Laughingthrush, Ceylon Rufous Babbler, White-faced Starling, Ceylon Crested Drongo, Ceylon Blue Magpie, Rufous Babbler, Spot-winged Thrush, Ceylon Hill Myna, Yellow-fronted Barbet, Scaly Thrush, Ceylon Jungle Fowl, Ceylon Spurfowl, Crimson Backed woodpecker, Ceylon Crested Drongo, Layard’s Parakeet, Ceylon Green Pigeon, Ceylon Lorikeet, and many more.</ul> |
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