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Chinese Tourist Arrivals To Sri Lanka On A Steady Rise

<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chinese tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka is on a steady rise, as the country has received 16,582 tourists during the first six months of this year, compared to 9,622 visitors received during the same period of last year. This is a 72.3-pct year on year growth. The latest jump shows encouraging signs as the Government of Sri Lanka is campaigning vigorously to capture a slice out of the growing Chinese outbound tourism market, which during the year 2012 stood at 83 million tourists.</span></span><br />
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Chinese Tourist Arrivals To Sri Lanka On A Steady Rise

Chinese tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka is on a steady rise, as the country has received 16,582 tourists during the first six months of this y...

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The Elephant Gathering At Minneriya National Park

<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Around August – September every year, the receding banks of the Minneriya Lake are covered by about 300 Asian elephants in search of food and water. This spectacular phenomenon known as ‘the Gathering’ is possibly the highest concentration of Asian elephants in a single location and ideal setting to observe and understand the social dynamics of elephants.</span></span><br />
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The Elephant Gathering At Minneriya National Park

Around August – September every year, the receding banks of the Minneriya Lake are covered by about 300 Asian elephants in search of food an...

8:51 AM

Sri Lankan Night At The “Third Rome”

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">The two week long “Mega Tourism Caravan” commenced its first phase on beginning of July in the capital city of Russia, Moscow. This promotional campaign which will be conducted in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Ufa and Yekaterinburg covering a distance of almost 4000 kilo meters on wheels is the follow up of the “Mega Tourism Road Show” held in March – April 2013, in the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Republic of Kazakhstan. This enormous task of organizing   weeks long tourism campaigns firstly in four major cities of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan and subsequently in four major cities in Russia for the second time would not have been a reality, if not for the resolute and untiring efforts of His Excellency Udayanga Weeratunga, the Ambassador of Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation.</span><br />
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Sri Lankan Night At The “Third Rome”

The two week long “Mega Tourism Caravan” commenced its first phase on beginning of July in the capital city of Russia, Moscow. This promotio...

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Sri Lankan Night At “Markin Square”, Nizhny Novgorod

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">On Monday, 8 July the “Mega Tourism Caravan” arrived at the fifth largest city of the Russian Federation. Nizhny Novgorod, colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with a population of 1,250,615, the fifth largest city in Russia and the Administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. From 1932 to 1990, it was known as Gorky after the writer Maxim Gorky who was born there. The city is an important economic, transportation and cultural center of Russia and the vast Volga - Vyatka economic region. Nizhny Novgorod is one of the centers of the IT Industry in Russia. It ranks among the leading Russian cities in terms of the quantity of software R and D providers. Intelhas a big software R&D center with more than 500 engineers in the city, as well as a major datacenter.</span><br />
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Sri Lankan Night At “Markin Square”, Nizhny Novgorod

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Pigeon Island National Park - In Sri Lanka

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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pigeon Island consists of two islands; large pigeon island and small pigeon island. The large pigeon island is fringed by a coral reef, and is about 200 m long and 100 m wide. Its highest point is 44.8 m above mean sea level. The small pigeon island is surrounded by rocky islets. The national park is situated within the dry zone of Sri Lanka. The mean annual temperature is around 27.0 °C (80.6 °F). The annual rainfall ranges between 1,000–1,700 millimetres (39–67 in) while most of the rain is received during the North-eastern monsoon season from October to March.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The large pigeon island's coral reef's vegetation is dominated by Acropora spp. with some Montipora spp. Faviidae, Mussidae and Poritidae species dominate the coral reef around the rocky islets. Areas with soft corals such as Sinularia, Lobophyton, and Sarcophyton can also be observed. The coral reef harbors many Vertebrates and Invertebrates. Many of the 100 species of corals and 300 coral reef fishes recorded around the Trincomalee area are found in the national park. Juvenile and adult Blacktip reef shark are seen around the shallow coral areas. Hawksbill turtle, Green turtle and Olive Ridley are the visiting sea turtles of the coral reef. The island is important breeding ground for the Rock Pigeon.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fishing and ornamental fish collection are the main economic usages of the coral reef. The pigeon island is also used as a scuba diving site. Uncontrolled tourism has resulted in reef degradation and loss of biodiversity and fish density. Scientific research was hindered due to the civil war in the past two decades. A proposed pier between the mainland coast and the island has attracted criticism.</span></div>
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