Waskaduwa Trip Overview
Sinharaja Forest Reserve is best for seeing Endemic birds, mammals, reptilians, Amphibians to Sri Lanka. This rain-forest is second only to the Amazon and the Congo rain-forests. This is a forest that helps to bring life to every creature in Sri Lanka and around the world.
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Duration: 10 to 15 hours
Starts: Waskaduwa, Sri Lanka
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Day Trips
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Sinharaja Forest Reserve is best for seeing Endemic birds, mammals, reptilians, Amphibians to Sri Lanka. This rain-forest is second only to the Amazon and the Congo rain-forests. This is a forest that helps to bring life to every creature in Sri Lanka and around the world.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Tropical Rain Forest Sinharaja, Neluwa lankagama Road Nature exploration and conservation society society, lankagama ,Galle,Sri lanka, Neluwa 81526 Sri Lanka
Sinharaja Forest Reserve meaning ‘Lion Kingdom’ is the best known Rain Forest in the country and has been identified as important biodiversity hotspot. The Park was originally declared a forest reserve in 1875 and due to its international importance it was designated as a Biosphere Reserve in 1978 and a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1988.
The vegetation at Sinharaja is that of a tropical wet evergreen forest with large trees that grow to heights of 35m to 40m and even going up to 50m, believed to have unbelievable genetic potential, waiting to be tapped. Some families of Dipterocarpaceae show an endemism of over 90%, of the 211 woody trees and lianas, 66% or 139 of them are endemic to the forest reserve. The lower plants such as Ferns and epiphytes of the 25 endemic species 13 have been recorded within Sinharaja itself.
The forest reserve benefits from both monsoon rainfalls – the south-west between May-July and north-east between November-January each year. The average temperature recorded is between 18-27 degrees centigrade, with February being the only dry month experienced in the park.
Duration: 4 hours
