Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Welcome to Sri Lanka

Natural Beauty Sri Lanka

Wasgamuwa National Park
situated approximately 200 km. away from Colombo, Wasgomuwa National Park is in the Central North region of the country, which is 37,000 hectares in extent. This Tropical intermediate dry mixed evergreen forest predominates its environment with many varieties of animals like wild elephant, deer, sloth bear, monkey, wild boar and crocodile.
Udawalawa National Park
Uda Walawe National Park is situated 170 Km South East of Colombo and is approximately 30,800 hectares in extent. This Park is located in the dry zone of Sri Lanka and act as the catchments to the Uda Walawe Reservoir. With abundant sources of water and rich and lush vegetation, this park is home for nearly 400 wild elephants besides many species of deer, wild boar, water buffalo, and the jackal too is found in this park
Yala National Park
Yala is the more popular and well-established wild life park in Sri Lanka. It is situated 309 km south of Colombo and approximately 129,700 hectares in extent. This Park consists of thorny scrub forest somewhat similar to the African bush, which provides visitors good visibility. The vegetation ranges from open parkland to dense jungle. Yala abounds with elephants besides the other varieties of animals such as sloth bears, leopards, buffaloes, wild boar, deer, samba and large crocodiles too, which are relatively common.
Bundala National Park
Bundala National Park is 260 km. away from Colombo and 6300 hectares in extent. All species of water birds resident in the country and the migrant birds inhabit this Park. This has five large brackish water lagoons, which make this place to be a home for the migratory birds that flock to these wetlands during the winter months.
Gal Oya National Park
Situated at Inginiyagala, the Gal Oya National Park is most renowned for its elephant population.
Horton Plains
Horton Plains National Park is the only national park situated in the hill country. It falls within the Nuwara Eliya District . The panoramic beauty of the hill country is witnessed within the park. Endemic slender loris and purple monkeys are among the animal species that can be seen. In addition there are lot of Sri Lankan Stags there and they are more friendly than other places. In horton plains there is an amazing place, the "World's End".
About 16km (10 miles) west of Pottuvil, Lahugala was designated as a national park mainly to provide a protected corridor for elephant groups moving between the larger reserves of Ruhuna (Yala), to the south, and Gal Oya, to the north. In the dry season this small park is reputed to have more elephants than any other part of the country, attracted by the grazing around the reservoirs within the park
The male peafowl is known as Peacock and female is known as Peahen. Peacock has a extravagant tail, which it displays as part of courtship Peacock is designated as National Bird of India. There are two species of peafowl, Indian Peafowl and a green Peafowl. Indian peafowls are usually found in India, Pakistan and Sri lanka while Green Peafowls are found in Myanmar. The Indian male peafowl has beautiful iridescent blue-green or green coloured plumage. The so-called "tail" of the peacock, also termed the "train", is not the tail quill feathers but highly elongated upper tail coverts. The train feathers have a series of eyes that are best seen when the tail is fanned. The Indian female peafowl has a mixture of dull green, brown, and grey in her plumage. She lacks the long upper tail coverts of the male but has a crest. The green Peafowl has a more green and even gold plumage than the Indian Peafowl and even more brilliant color. The wings are black with a sheen of blue. The crest is of a very different shape and is tufted. The head is usually greenish in color but blue in many other species.