Welcome to Sinharaja Forest

About Sinharaja

   This tour is to world heritage rain forest of Sinharaja Sri Lanka from Main Road of Kalawana.   

Places to visit from Kudawa entrance 

   From Rathnapura district entrance of Sinharaja we can visit Sinhagala, Mulawlla and Wathurawa peaks and Specially Grant Nawada tree and various types of species who are endemic to Sri Lanka and some other beauties of Nature. Wathurawa is 2.5km from enterence and Mulawella 6.5km, Sinhagala which is mid point of the forest is 14.0km and Grant Nawada tree is 6.0km from enterence. 

Natural plants and endemic varieties

   Sinharaja is more famous for natural beauty and endemic varieties. Inside of the forest several endemic species and several beauties are hid. As a example for endemism of Sinharaja, There are 24 endemic birds are living in Sinharaja out of 26 in Sri Lanka. Other's ratios also same in Sinharaja and there is it becomes a world heritage forest.

Sinharaja Information Center

   In Kudawa Waddagala entrance Information center is available. Before the enter to core protected zone of the Sinharaja forest we have to request a guided man from  information center. And also any student or any person can get more information of Sinharaja forest from Sinharaja Information center.

Conservation and Bio Diversity of Sinharaja

   The Sinharaja forest reserve is composed of a core zone and a Buffer zone. The core zone is composed of Tropical rain forest means wet tropical evergreen forest. But the buffer zone shows a diversity of forest types since it extends along a large sector of land.

      The Sinharaja rain forest is gradients over to the south-western slope of central hills. Thus, the intermediate zone between the two zones composed of Wet, Lowland Montanez forests. Conservation current status of Sinharaja is in satisfied level.

Flora and Fauna of Sinharaja

  There are many floras we can find in Sinharaja forest. There are about 240000 plants species found per 1ha. There are 192 endemic timber species out of 340. 13 endemic flora species are recorded in Sinharaja forest.

Sinharaja is a paradise of endemic and other species of fauna. That is a thing that you wondered is over 50% of endemic species of fauna are living in Sinharaja Tropical rain forest. There are about 282 birds are recorded in Sinharaja out of 384 in Sri Lanka. It is 73%. Most of species who are endemic to Sri Lanka can be seen on Sinharaja. Butterflies, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals are major fauna types.  

Way to Sinharaja

  Way to Sinharaja forest from kudawa entrance as follows:

Aluthgama --> Mathugama --> Kalawana 
or
Rathnapura --> Kalawana

 Then come to Kudawa, Waddagala enterance from Kalawana.  

Contacting Persons

If you like to way to Sinharaja forest at Kalawana, Kudawa enterence. You can get more details from following person.

Sathiska : 0777989680
 

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