#central province

[wouldyourathervisit]

Would you rather visit

Cape St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 🇨🇦

Pig Beach, Big Major Cay, Bahamas 🇧🇸

Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia 🇦🇺

Kasanka National Park, Central Province, Zambia 🇿🇲

Monarch Butterfly Grove, Pismo Beach, California, USA 🇺🇸

Elephant Nature Park, Kuet Chang, Thailand 🇹🇭

Remaining time: 4 days 6 hours

[thebeastsofindia]

Indian Brown Mongoose (Urva fusca), family Herpestidae, order Carnivora, Central Province, Sri Lanka

Photo by Andrew Kruger

[famousinuniverse]

Kokoda Track, Papua New Guinea: The Kokoda Track or Trail is a single-file foot thoroughfare that runs 96 kilometres overland – 60 kilometres in a straight line – through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea. Wikipedia

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Wreck of MS World Discoverer, Solomon Islands: MS World Discoverer was a cruise ship designed for and built by Schichau Unterweser, Germany in 1974. During construction called BEWA Discoverer, the ship was completed in Bremerhaven, Germany. In 2000, the ship struck an underwater obstacle and was damaged; it was subsequently grounded – to prevent sinking – and abandoned in the Solomon Islands. World Discoverer still sits in Roderick Bay of the Nggela Islands with a 46° list.  Wikipedia

[travel-in-pictures]

Central Province, Sri Lanka 

by Oliver O. from Germany 

Source | Google Maps

[bautyofworld]

Sigiriya, Dambulla, Fortress in Sri Lanka: Sigiriya or Sinhagiri is an ancient rock fortress located in the northern Matale District near the town of Dambulla in the Central Province, Sri Lanka. It is a site of historical and archaeological significance that is dominated by a massive column of granite approximately 180 m high. Wikipedia

[thebeastsofindia]

Indian Jungle Crow (Corvus macrorhynchos culminatus or Corvus culminatus), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Central Province, Sri Lanka

It is debated whether this is merely a subspecies of the widespread Large Billed Crow (Corvus macrorhynchos) or its own species.

Photo by Chris Burney

[thebeastsofindia]

Sri Lankan Blackbird (Turdus simillimus kinnissi), male, family Turdidae, order Passeriformes, Central Province, Sri Lanka

Formerly the Indian Blackbird, Chinese Blackbird (Turdus mandarinus), Tibetan Blackbird (Turdus maximus), and European Blackbird (Turdus merula), were all classified as one species (Turdus merula), but this grouping was found to be polyphyletic; that is, these various lineages were not all closely related to each other

Male Indian blackbirds may be all black, or have a black cap on a greyish brown body

Photo by Frank Hawkins