Sri Lanka

fort

Bay of Bengal as seen from Galle fort in Sri Lanka. One can see a light house which is surrounded by some coconut trees.

Sri Lankan Man gives food to fishes. He gives white rice to them. The rate of commercial fish farming in Sri Lanka is increasing rapidly. Because fish and fish products has a huge demand in market.

birds · wildlife

The Brown-headed Barbet is an inhabitant breeder in India and Sri Lanka. It is an arboreal species which eats fruit and insects. It lays two to four eggs and nests in a tree hole.

farmland

Masks are turned out from the timber of a tree locally known as "Kaduru". This tree grows in marshy lands bordering paddy fields. Its stem is covered with a bark which sheds amilky liquid like latex. Its wood is soft and easy to cut.

wildlife · forest

The Asian or Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus) is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed in Southeast Asia from India in the west to Borneo in the east.

Worker cuts the metal sheet into small pieces then he heats small metal piece into the fire using a bushy flame to give it a shape Usually the metal is heated to soften it and to obtain a desired shape.

flowers

The Indian star tortoise scientifically known as Geochelone elegans, belongs to a species of tortoise found in semi-arid grassland and scrub forest of India and Sri Lanka.

farmland · dance

Artisans make traditional masks in Sri Lanka. Masks are turned out from the timber of a tree locally known as "Kaduru". This tree grows in marshy lands bordering paddy fields.

village

To get off the beaten track and experience the true rural Sri Lanka, the Morawaka Tea Estate is the place to be! Untouched by tourism, here you can really see how an every-day Sri Lankan tea-estate life passes by at its laid-back rural pace…

industry

Employees work inside a tea producing factory at Morawaka Tea Factory in Sri Lanka captured in slow motion. The tea growing regions of Sri Lanka are Morawaka, Kandy, Uva, Uda Pussellawa, Dimbulla, Sabaragamuwa and Ruhuna.

river · lake

Koggala Lake is a yet another place to be visited in Sri Lankan tourism. Koggala Lake is a un- spoiled lake located about few kilometers away from Galle.

bazaar

Customers come to fish market to buy fresh fishes. Different varieties of fish, prawns, shrimps, crabs etc. are for sale in local market of Galle in Sri Lanka.

industry

Employees work inside a tea producing factory at Morawaka Tea Factory in Sri Lanka. Morawaka Tea Estate, located in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka---once known as Ceylon---in the Ruhuna tea-producing region, the only in Sri Lanka that t…

flowers

The Indian star tortoise scientifically known as Geochelone elegans, belongs to a species of tortoise found in semi-arid grassland and scrub forest of India and Sri Lanka.

flowers

The Indian star tortoise scientifically known as Geochelone elegans, belongs to a species of tortoise found in semi-arid grassland and scrub forest of India and Sri Lanka.

flowers

The Indian star tortoise scientifically known as Geochelone elegans, belongs to a species of tortoise found in semi-arid grassland and scrub forest of India and Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in the northern Indian Ocean off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia.

flowers · industry

Calotropis gigantea (Crown flower) is a species of Calotropis native to Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and China. It is a large shrub growing to 4 m tall.

wildlife · birds

The Great Stone-curlew or Great Thick-knee (Esacus recurvirostris) is a large wader which is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka into South-east Asia.

birds

The Stork-billed Kingfisher (Pelargopsis capensis) (formerly Halcyon capensis), is a tree kingfisher which is widely but sparsely distributed in the tropical Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India and Sri Lanka to Indonesia.

Sri Lankan man is polishing gem stone in a traditional style.