Ecotourism
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Sri Lanka is one of the 25 Biodiversity hot spots of the world. The country has the highest Biodiversity per 10,000 square km in Asia. Fifteen (15) distinct bioregions in an area of 62,500 square km each offering different landscapes and wildlife oppertunities - with an ancient civilization contemporary to that of the Greeks and Romans and numerous cultural sites of antiquity, including six world heritage sites - Sri Lanka has an exotic and vibrant resource base of Ecotourism.
Sinharaja world heritage forest
Singharaja
Forest Reserve is the most famous rainforest of the country. This tropical
rain forest is a living heritage. Bio diversity of the forest is very high
and a large proportion of the flora in this forest is endemic to the country
and some endemic to the Singharaja Forest itself. Sinharaja trail map
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Wild Life Sactuaries and Natioanal Parks
The jungles
of Sri Lanka abound in a variety of wildlife, which is suprising for an
island of its size in the tropics
Horton
Plains NP
Yala NP
Uda Walawe NP
Wasgomuwa NP
Minneriya-Giritale NP
Peak Wilderness S
Kaalle Pallekele S
Hakgala Strict Nature Reserve
Ritigala SNR
Sinharaja World Heritage site
Kithulgala Forest Reserve
Knuckles forest range
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Bird Sactuaries and other sites of interest
Bird
Sanctuaries
Bundala
Kumana
Bellanwila-Attidiya
Kegalle _ Kurulu-kele Vegetation
Waterfalls
Wetlands
Muthurajawela
Negombo
Bolgoda Lake
Botanical
Gardens
Peradeniya
Hakgala
Gampaha
Zoological
Gardens
Dehiwala
Museums
National Museum, Colombo 7
Natural History Musuem, Colombo 7
Elephant
orphanages
Pinnawela