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Sri Lanka, our 65,525 sq km. island lies to the south of India. The Gem of the Indian Ocean was recently dubbed the best tourist destination in the world. We couldn’t agree more.

Yet only a small number of tourists ever experience the real Sri Lanka … since life styles and culture are outside the confines of typical hotel-based run-of-the-mill tourism.

Sri Lanka is known for its wide and varied climates – from the highest peak of Piduruthalagala at 8200 ft. (2700 m) down to the world-famous beautiful sandy, sunny beaches.

Within this span it offers all kinds of wonderful and beautiful sites and scenes. Velvety green round- topped hills, gushing and cascading waterfalls, evergreen rainforests.

There are vast open lush green paddy fields, thousands of man-made lakes and tanks, silver lines of long rivers, scrub jungles, open sand plains and so much more to see.

Except for snow and ice, all kinds of climes and terrains encircle the central and southern hill countries.  Any place can be reached from any other place within a few hours.

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The mountains and the southwestern part of the country, known as the “wet zone,” receive ample rainfall – an annual average of 2500 millimeters.

  • Low Land
    • Athvalthota
    • Beraliya
    • Bodinigala
    • Bolgoda
    • Dellawa
    • Galle
    • Gampaha
    • Hiniduma
    • Hiyarae
    • Horogolla
    • Kalu Ganga
    • Kalugala
    • Kithulgala
    • Kosgoda
    • Madu Ganga
    • Malwana
    • Mathugama
    • Mirissa
    • Nahitikanda
    • Negombo
    • Pahiyangala
    • Kaneliya
    • Sinharaja Forest Reserve
    • Waulpane Caves
    • Yagirala
  • Hi Land
    • Adam’s Peak
    • Batadomba
    • Bomuru Ella
    • Haggala
    • Horton Plains National Park
    • Kande Ela
    • Kandy
    • Knuckles Mountain Range
    • Namunukula Mountain Range
    • Ohiya
    • Riverston
    • Thalawakele
    • Udawatte Kale
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The low-country dry zone occupies about three-quarters of the country. It receives between 25-75 inches of rain, most of which falls towards the end of the year. Elevation ranges from sea level to 500 feet above sea level. It is hot and dry for most of the year.

Rice is cultivated extensively under irrigation from man-made water reservoirs that are called tanks. Vegetables are also cultivated in this zone after the monsoonal rains. It does have some tracts of forest and scrub jungle, though vastly reduced from its former size due to new settlements. A high concentration of birds are found in this zone. 

  • Northern
    • Anuradhapura
    • Dambana
    • Dambulla
    • Digampathana
    • Giant’s Tank
    • Kalpitiya
    • Kaudulla National  Park
    • Maduru Oya
    • Minneriya National Park
    • Padaviya
    • Peogan’s Island
    • Polonnaruwa
    • Ritigala
    • Sigiriya
    • Somawathie National Park
    • Tabbowa
    • Wasgamuwa National Park
    • Wilpattu National Park
  • Southern
    • Arugambay
    • Bundala National Park
    • Dambana(Lokgal Ara)
    • Gal Oya National Park
    • Kalametiya
    • Kumana (Yala East ) National Park
    • Lahugala Kithulana National Park
    • Lunugamvehera National Park
    • Nilgala
    • Rekawa
    • Yala National Park
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This is a transitional zone between the plains and the hills and often has considerable species overlap. The intermediate zone is much wetter in the north west than in the south east.

  • Embilipitiya
  • Meemure
  • Udawalawe National Park
  • Ella
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