Horton Plains National Park As I Saw Last Sunday

I  visited Horton Plains National Park with  two of my colleagues and our families last Sunday, traveling from  Kurnegala to Kandy, then Nuwaraeliya and Horton Plains.

These are some glimpses of what you  can see on the way to the park's entrance.


Mount Sri Pada(Adam's Peak) viewed from distance
 

                                                       Kande Ela Lake

Inside the park, you get mainly get to see "pathana" grassland and montane rain forest , with a variety of interesting plants and animals.

                         

                                                        Chimney Pool

                                               

                                                         Baker's Falls

                                            


Flora And Fauna  

 

 

This plant is the endemic Maha-rath-mal (Rododendron arboreum ssp.zeylanicum)











And here are the animals I happened to  observe during this trip.

                   Sambar Deer(Rusa unicolor)

This particular fella used walk right up to the    travelers, looking for tidbits. I'm personally against feeding these wild animals. 

 

 

                                                                     These I couldn't identify

 

I'll try my best to pin identifications  on the plants and critters that I didn't name in this post, and be grateful if any of you folks could help me with it. Enjoy this video till then!


 

A Short Trip In Knuckles Conservation Forest, Riversturn, Pitawala Pathana And Thelagamu Oya

This is from our(my family and some of my workmates') trip to The Reversturn Peak of Knuckles mountain range on 06/06/2010.  We visited Reversturn, Pitawala pathana grassland, and Thelagamu Oya river, all within the premises of Knuckles conservation forest, which is mainly highland rain-forest, with relatively short trees, less underbrush and hardly any canopy.   As we had to make it a short one day trip, we didn't have much of a chance observing or studying its wildlife. My attempts to gather some info online have so far been fruitless. More images and video are available on my travel blog.