Gal Oya National Park -Gal-oya special*

After the successful entry of “Nilgala”, the sanchare team visited “Gal-oya National park” for this week programme. Gal Oya National Park in Sri Lanka was established in 1954 with an area of 25,900 hectare surrounded by Senanayake Samudra. The park serves as the main catchment area for Senanayake Samudraya. Senanayake Samudraya was built under the Gal Oya development project by damming the Gal Oya at Inginiyagala in 1950

From Galloya

The specialty in *gal-oya special* is crossing the SAFARI through senanayake samudraya by boating or safari jeeps also could be used for accessing the park. Bird’s Island in the reservoir is an island used by birds for nesting. Where Gal Oya falls to the reservoir, water flows in a natural tunnel known as Makara Kata (Sinhalese for Dragon's mouth) or simply Makara.
Park wardon Mr. Buddhika recommends that the Best time to visit Gal Oya National Park is between Jan and April. The park is popular for Elephant watching. Anyone can enjoy the beauty of Gal Oya National park by either Boat or Jeep safaris. The boat safari is worthwhile and interesting as the reservoir has many small islands and it does not disturb the animals, you can have a closer look of the wild life and could see the swimming elephants one to the other islands. If you are doing a boat safari you will come across the “Bird Island” which is full with bird species. The jeep safaris consist of two tracks (one 5 km and other about 13 km). It is ideal for elephant, leopard watching and photographing.
There are 3 camping sites at gal-oya national park and one at lok-gal-oya, if you need to reserve please contact the wild life bungalow offices at Colombo or Ampara. In addition you could also get details of the 18 KM boat safari from Ga-oya bunt to Makare.
specially for catholic devotees :
Catholic could also visit Mother Mary’s church in the national park which is Similarly to Madu Shrine.
*gal oya special is a mostly spreaded arrack brand in Sri Lanka from Hingurana Sugar Copmany*



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Gal Oya National Park -Gal-oya special*

After the successful entry of “Nilgala”, the sanchare team visited “Gal-oya National park” for this week programme. Gal Oya National Park in Sri Lanka was established in 1954 with an area of 25,900 hectare surrounded by Senanayake Samudra. The park serves as the main catchment area for Senanayake Samudraya. Senanayake Samudraya was built under the Gal Oya development project by damming the Gal Oya at Inginiyagala in 1950

From Galloya

The specialty in *gal-oya special* is crossing the SAFARI through senanayake samudraya by boating or safari jeeps also could be used for accessing the park. Bird’s Island in the reservoir is an island used by birds for nesting. Where Gal Oya falls to the reservoir, water flows in a natural tunnel known as Makara Kata (Sinhalese for Dragon's mouth) or simply Makara.
Park wardon Mr. Buddhika recommends that the Best time to visit Gal Oya National Park is between Jan and April. The park is popular for Elephant watching. Anyone can enjoy the beauty of Gal Oya National park by either Boat or Jeep safaris. The boat safari is worthwhile and interesting as the reservoir has many small islands and it does not disturb the animals, you can have a closer look of the wild life and could see the swimming elephants one to the other islands. If you are doing a boat safari you will come across the “Bird Island” which is full with bird species. The jeep safaris consist of two tracks (one 5 km and other about 13 km). It is ideal for elephant, leopard watching and photographing.
There are 3 camping sites at gal-oya national park and one at lok-gal-oya, if you need to reserve please contact the wild life bungalow offices at Colombo or Ampara. In addition you could also get details of the 18 KM boat safari from Ga-oya bunt to Makare.
specially for catholic devotees :
Catholic could also visit Mother Mary’s church in the national park which is Similarly to Madu Shrine.
*gal oya special is a mostly spreaded arrack brand in Sri Lanka from Hingurana Sugar Copmany*


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Nilgala

Nilgala park which is in the Uva provinces of Sri Lanka is now open for the general public. The forest spreads over 26000 hectares and administered by both forest and wildlife conservation departments of Sri Lankan government. The park can be approached either from Colombo-Kandy-Bibila, on Bibila-Inginiyagala road or on Bibila- Batticoloa road.
Gal oya is the longest and largest river in nilgala national park.It is very beautiful and valuable river situated in this park. The dam in Senanayaka samudraya has built across this river When you travel through 16 KM in the forest level, you will meet the white pan are available for camping site. You also come across with the oldest stoneway where king dutegemunu travelled through

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Nilgala sfari trek -buiupitiya 2 makare
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Polonaruwa-පොලොන්නරුව

Polonnaruwa period is the most prosperous era sri lanka ever had in its annuls. Polonnaruwa replaced Anuradhapura as the capital city of Sri Lanka, Because of the invasion of south India. It was the capital of Sri Lanka from 11 AD to 13
Today the ancient city of Polonnaruwa remains one of the best planned Archeological relic sites in the country. During the 11th – 13th AD, number of 7'and 16 story buildings were put up and also rice the main agricultural product was exported to foreign countries either.
The sanchare team was able to cover gal vihara of polonnaruwa, the hidden ruins, suwasthika pond thiwanka pilimage, and incredible buildings without foundation, shiiva devalaya and etc. A whole lot of photo graphs are displayed in this site and if you wish to view our album please click on the slides displayed on the top of the page.
The best time to visit polonnaruwa is the period after the monsoon, while the greenery season turned on.

ලංකාවේ සශීර ගොකව සහ සමෘද්ධිමත්ම යුගය ලෙස සැලකිය හැකි පොලොන්නරුව යුගයේ නටඹුන් අතර සැරිසැරීම ද අපට අමුතු ආශ්වාදයක් ගෙන දෙයි. පොලොන්නරු පුරා විද්යා් භූමියේ නිරන්තරයෙන් නෙත ගැටෙන ගල් විහාරය පරාකර්නරම සමුද්රහය හැරුණු කොට අපේ නෙත නොගැටෙන විශ්මය දනවන නටඹුන් බොහොමයකි. ඒ අතර අංක දෙක ශිව දේවාලය ස්වස්ථික පොකුණ පදනමක් නැතුව නතා ඇති දැවැන්ත තිවංක පිළිම ගෙය වැනි බොහෝ දෑ වේ. මෙහි ඇති වෙල්ලක්කාර සෙල් ලිපිය අපේ ජනවාර්ගික සහෝදරත්වයේ පැරණි නටඹුන් ද අපට මතු කර පෙන්වයි. අප රටේ සමෘද්ධිමත් යුගයේදී ගොඩ නැ`ගුනු තට්ටු හතේ සහ තට්ටු දහසයේ ගොඩනැ`.sලි අද ද විශ්මය දනවන සු`ථය

From Polonnaruwa

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