Sri Lanka is a country of spectacular beauty and gentle, gracious people. There's tremendous diversity in topography and scenery. Its diversity varies from the famous sandy beaches to the game reserves in the bush country to the unbelievable highlands and the tea plantations to the lush forests and jungles.
Sri Lanka's nature consists of mountains, plains, water falls, national parks, sea, beaches, rocks, paddy fields, tea plantations, rain forests and rivers. The highest mountain is Pidurutalagala at 2,524 meters. Most of the island's surface consists of plains between 30 and 200 meters above sea level. In the southwest, ridges and valleys rise gradually to merge with the Central Highlands, giving a dissected appearance to the plain. A coastal belt about thirty meters above sea level surrounds the island. Much of the coast consists of sandy beaches indented by coastal lagoons. There are sixteen principal rivers longer than 100 kilometers in length. The longest rivers are the Mahaweli Ganga (335 kilometers) and the Aruvi Aru (170 kilometers).
Sri Lanka is a Nature's wonder. the little island 270 km by 140 km in size has everything a nature lover will look for. The highly diversified island differs from city to city, district to district and province to province.
Apart from sunny beaches Sri Lanka is known for its beautiful nature and wildlife reserves. Most of the nature reserves are found in the dry zone. Sri Lanka has 86 species of mammals from which 16 are indigenous to the island. From the 427 recorded species of birds 250 are resident and 27 are indigenous to the country. Some of the popular nature reserves are Sinharaja forest, Udawalawe reserve, Yala National Park and the Wilpattu National Park . One of the main species of mammals that could be found in almost all the nature reserves are the majestic elephants
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