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The landmark Cargills building in the Colombo Fort area was built in the early 1900s. It was originally the residence of a Dutch military commander and later was taken over by the first British governor of Ceylon, as Sri Lanka was known during colonialism. It’s now a department store you can get almost anything there.
FOREIGN POLICY (ISSN 0015-7228) January/February 2017, issue number 222.
Minneriya National Park is a national park in North Central Province of Sri Lanka. The area was designated as a national park on 12 August 1997, having been originally declared as a wildlife sanctuary in 1938. The reason for declaring the area as protected is to protect the catchment of Minneriya tank and the wildlife of the surrounding area. The tank is of historical importance, having been built by King Mahasen in third century AD. The park is a dry season feeding ground for the elephant population dwelling in forests of Matale, Polonnaruwa, and Trincomalee districts. The park earned revenue of Rs. 10.7 millions in the six months ending in August 2009. Along with Kaudulla and Girithale, Minneriya forms one of the 70 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) of Sri Lanka. The park is situated 182 kilometres (113 mi) from Colombo.
I love tea. When I drink tea I think of tea pluckers. They earn US$3 per day (two-thirds the minimum wage for government employees) and they must pick a minimum of 20kg of leaves per day...
I love tea. When I drink tea I think of tea pluckers. They earn US$3 per day (two-thirds the minimum wage for government employees) and they must pick a minimum of 20kg of leaves per day...
Ceylon Lacewing butterfly - Shot in a split second when it landed on this wild flower near Singharaja forest in Sri Lanka.
Ceylon Jungle Fowl (Gallus lafeyetti) is an endemic resident of Sri Lanka. An adult male. Belongs to Phasianidae family. Clicked at Wilpattu National Park, Sri Lanka
I think this might be red ginger (alpinia purpurata) in the garden at "Brief", the bungalow and garden built by the eccentric former soldier and landscape artist, Bevis Bawa, inland from Bentota in southern Sri Lanka.
Royal Botanical Garden, Peradeniya is about 5.5 km to the west from the city of Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. It attracts 2 million visitors annually. It is near the Mahaweli River (the longest in Sri Lanka). It is renowned for its collection of orchids. The garden includes more than 4000 species of plants, including orchids, spices, medicinal plants and palm trees Attached to it is the National Herbarium of Sri Lanka. The total area of the botanical garden is 147 acres (0.59 km2), at 460 meters above sea level, and with a 200-day annual rainfall. It is managed by the Division of National Botanic Gardens of the Department of Agriculture.
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Yep he is sitting on a the Trendmasters newby version of himself ! Now the vintage Mattel gets a lot of flack for not having the screen accurate body. Because they just recolored the Captain Lazer body. But the head is everything for this. The sculpt made for this figure. And a pretty good likeness ! Back in the day, I would've loved to have got the big Ceylon !
This photo won't be winning any awards, but it's a Ceylon Scaly Thrush, a nightmare to find, but eventually located skulking in the thickest, darkest depths of the leech-infested Sinharaja rainforest!
Sri Lankan families waiting for the start of the Kandy Esala Day Perahera in Sri Lanka, August 2015.
National butterfly of sri lanka
(Troides darsius)
ශ්රී ලංකා පරිසර සහ ස්වාභාවික සම්පත් අමාත්යංශය විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජාතික සමනළයා ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකා මහකුරුළු පිය පැපිලියා නම් සමනළ විශේෂය ප්රකාශයට පත්කලා.
මහකුරුළු පිය පැපිලියා – Sri Lanka Birdwing – Troides Darsius ශ්රී ලංකාවේ විශාලතම සමනළ විශේෂය වන අතර, මෙරට බහුලව දක්නට ලැබෙන ශ්රී ලංකාවට ආවේණික සමනළ විශේෂයක්.
දර්ශනීය බාහිර රූපකායක් සහිත මෙම සමනළයාගේ ඉදිරි තටු කළු පැහැතිය. කළු පැහැති දාර වලින් යුතු පසුපස තටු රන්වන් කහ පැහැතිය.
කිසියම් රටක් විසින් ජීවී විශේෂ තම ජාතික අනන්යතාවය ලෙස ප්රකාශයට පත් කිරීමේ අරමුණ වන්නේ එම සත්ව විශේෂ සංරක්ෂණය සඳහා වැඩි අවධානයක් ලබා ගැනීමයි.
මෙම සමනළ කාණ්ඩය තර්ජනයට ලක්වූ ගණයට අයත් නොවූවත් සමස්තයක් වශයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ආවේණික සමනළ විශේෂ මිනිස් ක්රියාකාරකම් නිසා සිදුවන පරිසර වෙනස්කම් හේතුවෙන් තර්ජනයට ලක්වී තිබෙනවා.
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Medium: albumen print
Size: 10 in x 8 in
Location: Ceylon
Object No. 2011.308
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Class……………………………Fiji-class Cruiser
Builder……………………….. Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Govan
Yard number……………….569
Laid down..………………….27 Apr 1939
Launched….…………………30 Jul 1942
Completed.………………….13 Jul 1943
Propulsion.…………………..4 shafts : 4 sets of Parsons SR geared steam turbines manufactured by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Govan : Steam supplied by 4 Admiralty 3-drun oil fired boilers
Speed..…………………………33 knots
Range…………………………..5850 / 2180 nm at 16 / 30 knots
History
1943-45: Home and Eastern Fleets.
1946-54: Far East and East Indies Fleets. Took part in Korean War Operations. Refitted in mid-1950s.
1954-59:Mediterranean and Home Fleets.
1959: Decommissioning
1960: Transferred to the Peruvian Navy in 1960 and renamed CORONEL BOLOGNESI
1982: Decommissioned
1985: Towed to Kaohsiung in Aug 1985 to be broken up.
HMS CEYLON was allocated the following pennant numbers.
30……………………….1943 – 1948
C165……………………1945 – 1946 (British Pacific Fleet)
C30………………………1948 - 1959
Perahera fire-dancers take a break during the spectacular Kandy Esala Perahera in Sri Lanka, August 2015.
Swimming pool and Castlereagh reservoir from Summerville Bungalow, part of Ceylon Tea Trails hotel estate.
Trincomalee schoolgirls, two years ago.
This is how I want to remember Sri Lanka...
See you from Bangkok!
Original Orton process in Color
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