tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20588269025434001342024-02-21T06:24:14.826+08:00Nature TrailsA blog on Environment and Conservation of nature, mostly from Sri Lanka & TaiwanSuranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-64479839408398215172017-09-18T16:07:00.000+08:002017-09-18T16:08:09.393+08:00Natural Giants<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Native to the tropical regions of South America. Giant water lilies (<i>Victoria amazonica</i>) known for huge leaves which can grow up to 3 meters in diameter and can support heavy objects. Belongs to the plant family <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaeaceae">Nymphaeaceae</a> (family of water lilies) and accounted as the largest member of the family. This was taken at the Shuangxi Park (雙溪公園) of Taipei City, Taiwan. They hold an annual Floating Giant Water Lily Exhibition during the Lilly season. In promoting the annual event Taipei mayor was seen sitting on one of this giant lily. Visitors too can take a chance to sit on one of these and take a photo but need to register themselves priorly. </div>
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Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com0Shuangxi Park, No. 307, Fulin Road, Shilin District, Taipei City, Taiwan 11125.098493 121.53610830000002-3.3714614999999988 80.227514300000024 53.568447500000005 162.84470230000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-40644470264811749252016-09-02T15:11:00.000+08:002016-09-02T15:12:54.487+08:00Borders ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Taipei Botanical Garden is a nice little hideout from the buzzling urban city of Taipei. Although its relatively small in size they have arrange and managed it well. Its famous for the big louts pond. However, this is from just opposite to that pond... </div>
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Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com0Taipei Botanical Garden, No. 53, Nanhai Rd, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan 1006625.0322049 121.5098835-3.4382766000000018 80.2012895 53.5026864 162.8184775tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-17195002406978682992016-08-25T23:54:00.001+08:002016-08-25T23:59:34.808+08:00Time Lapse of Wufengchi Waterfalls* 五峰旗瀑布<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-15316507022765976902015-06-06T21:04:00.002+08:002015-06-06T21:04:43.308+08:00A thought in celebrating the World Environment Day...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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According to NASA, "perigee moon" is the scientific term for a super moon. It means the moon is at the point in its orbit that brings it closer to Earth. The result is that the world’s closest neighbor appears larger and brighter than usual – with breath-taking results.</div>
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I still have two more chances for this year, two other supermoons will appear later this summer on 10 August and 9 September. Let’s see how that goes. </div>
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Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com0Taipei City, Taiwan25.091075 121.5598344999999724.8597365 121.23573799999997 25.3224135 121.88393099999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-72276296869236170962014-07-11T13:01:00.000+08:002014-07-11T13:01:00.338+08:00Colombo to Taipei...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I just wanted to see the distance from Colombo to Taipei, the two capital cities of Sri Lanka and Taiwan respectively. I'm originally from Sri Lanka now in Taiwan, though I've been here for almost three years now didn't actually wanted to see how far actually I am away from my home. I had a rough figure around 3000kms and that seems to be a bad estimation, as it turned out to be actually around ~4800 km. The circumference of Earth at the equator is about 40,075 km. Well with compared to that, this is just 1/10 of it... </div>
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Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-25364389754508281992014-07-10T00:58:00.002+08:002014-07-10T00:58:52.158+08:00Sunsets to Nangang...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It was a beautiful view of the sunsets from my office room at the 11th floor at Academia Sinica over the Nangang Mountains. Reminds me of the panoramic sunsets that I used to have from my office at the Chinese Culture University in Yangmingshan.<br />
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Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com0Academia Sinica, No. 128, Section 2, Yanjiuyuan Road, Nangang District, Taipei City, Taiwan 11525.0421852 121.614547725.0349532 121.60441970000001 25.049417199999997 121.6246757tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-86144337984596469342014-02-01T01:36:00.000+08:002014-02-01T01:36:00.403+08:00"Long live our wetlands"...!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-21174075729684098592014-01-30T16:49:00.001+08:002014-01-30T16:50:06.934+08:00Happy Chinese New Year ... 祝您新年快樂。<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It has been no so good year in terms of the blog, but was a breakthrough and successful year in other terms. Anyway, here we are stepping in to the new Chinese New year 2014. </div>
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According to the Chinese lunar calendar, this year will be the year of horse. It great that the Chinese people have an animal dedicated for each year. There is this mythical story about a race of these animals and the years were dedicated according to the winners list. Mouse comes first in the list (though this mouse did some cheating in the race, where he travel on the horns of the ox and jumped in to the winning line at the very end, to become the first) and the ox second and so on. The Dragon is to be the most preferred animal among the dozen of them in the Chinese community. Is so famous, where it leads even to a extend resulting, higher birth rates in a dragon year with compared to the rest of the years, everyone wants to have a dragon baby!</div>
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Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-23852229589333813552013-03-22T03:38:00.000+08:002013-03-22T03:43:02.759+08:00World Water Day | March 22<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">World Water Day is held annually
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">There were a couple of activities
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Winter this time. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka experienced some extreme rainfall events
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Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-20319670791166083082013-03-21T15:40:00.000+08:002013-03-21T15:44:57.753+08:00 International Day of Forests | March 21<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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United Nations General assembly has proclaimed 21 March the International Day
of Forests. From 2013, the day will be observed each year to celebrate and
raise awareness of the importance of forests and trees to all life on earth.</span></div>
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Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-53343451818651610342013-03-19T10:18:00.000+08:002013-03-19T10:18:31.859+08:00Sri Lanka featured in National Geographic Traveler<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">National Geographic Magazine once name Sri Lanka as one of their top destinations for this year. After the end
<span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct" ginger_sofatware_markguid="a7a7f8a7-f42c-4081-9eb1-ce2da42acad1" ginger_sofatware_uiphraseguid="efad6c12-97e8-4cf6-8393-65558eeea079" grcontextid="of:0">of</span> 30 years civil war, the country has become a peaceful and safe place for the
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Lanka. They have highlighted the country’s top 21 attractions for travelers in
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Central Formosa Toad - <i>Bufo <span class="GRnoSuggestion GRcorrect" grcontextid="bankorensis:0" grmarkguid="be809da2-bb1f-44aa-9951-62f5ed966d1b" gruiphraseguid="47a2c7d7-5be6-4152-b883-bf0e666c041c">bankorensis</span></i> (Bufonidae family) is a big toad species endemic to Taiwan. Very common toad in Taiwan. Habitat loss, collection for food and traditional medicine are common threats to this fork.</td></tr>
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Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com0Taiwan24.699886211701507 121.4219407812499922.853877711701507 118.84015378124998 26.545894711701507 124.00372778124999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-73368919930569356432013-01-31T14:55:00.000+08:002013-01-31T14:55:11.063+08:00The Beauty of Taiwan – In timelapse...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Canon DSLR’s over a period of two weeks covering Taiwan’s some most visited hot
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Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com0Taiwan23.69781 120.9605149999999916.256660500000002 110.6333665 31.1389595 131.28766349999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-59345165540924233932013-01-02T21:32:00.001+08:002013-01-02T21:32:41.596+08:00Wish you all a Happy New Year 2013!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-81998749120445641292012-09-19T11:06:00.000+08:002012-09-19T11:06:59.353+08:00Taiwan Birdathon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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along with Greater Tainan, are to hold a marathon-style bird-watching race for
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have herd of this before in central Taiwan’s Dasyueshan National Forest
Recreation Area earlier this year. It seems this time they
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have my doubts that this will be a good way of promoting so called ecotourism and raise
environmental awareness. We'll see who's the winner and the count this time as
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Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com2Jalan Benteng, City Centre, 50050 Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia3.1453153929752977 101.694774627685553.0818978929752978 101.61581062768555 3.2087328929752976 101.77373862768555tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-35693559412386026642012-07-21T00:36:00.000+08:002012-07-21T00:37:57.811+08:00Taiwan's Yin-Yang Sea...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yin – yang (陰陽) is a concept comes in Chinese philosophy
which literally meaning "dark and light", is used to describe how
polar opposites or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and
interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in
turn in relation to each other. I guess this name for this particular place
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As you travel along the coastal highway No 02 you will see a
strange scene in the sea - a bay where the color of the sea is a mix of yellow
and blue a two contrasting color sea. This is called the Yin-yang Sea. It was
initially believed that the sea color was the result of pollution from Taiwan
Metal Mining Corp’s smelting activities but, over 10 years after the company
stopped its activities, Yin-yang Sea still exists The geology here contains large
amount of pyrite which has formed Fe3+ the course for the yellow / orange color
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The No.2 Provincial Route is the main connection between
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<a href="http://srilanka-naturetrails.blogspot.tw/2012/07/the-golden-waterfall-in-taiwan.html" target="_blank">Golden Waterfall</a> and the Jiufen old mining town. I have seen the runoff mixing
with sea in Sri Lanka as well but it’s not like this and it does not occur for
such a long period like this. Taiwan got many unique things to see, I believe
that’s one of the reason for the saying “Taiwan touch your heart”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gold Waterfall or golden waterfall is located near Zihciang
Bridge and Changren Mining Area, Rueifang District, Keelung, Northern Taiwan. Water of this particular waterfall comes from
the upstream of the Jingua Stone area which flows through the copper and iron
ores of the area, which brings the pigments to form the golden waterfall. Its much beautiful in the evenings where the sun sets to the waterfall. The contrasting colors of yellow/orange with the vegetation patches of green gives a spectacular view. No wonder this area is one of the most popular spot for wedding photography in
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Near by the Golden Waterfall, you can also see the Yin-Yang
Sea (two colored sea) where the sediment runoff from the old mining sites with
a yellow/orange color meets with the blue sea water, and the place called “Thirteen
Level”, Ruins of a copper smelter built along the hillside where this area once
the prime site of gold, copper and iron mining in Taiwan. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The government of Sri Lanka has released a long
awaited language tool for the Sri Lankans a Tri lingual
dictionary. The official languages of the country are Sinhala, Tamil and
English. But unfortunately there only few people who can handle all three of
them well. Unfortunately I'm not among them, my Tamil knowledge is minimal should be shamed of myself. Hope this tool will develop more in the future and the people will use
this tool effectively for the betterment of the country.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Sunsets very nice at the Chinese Culture University which is overlooking the Taipei basin.... A different experience than from Sri Lanka where we hardly get the chance to see the sun sets this close from the mountain like in Yangmingshan. </div>Suranjithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09327652420604831671noreply@blogger.com0No. 55, Huágāng Rd, Shihlin District, Taipei City, Taiwan 11125.137747789157636 121.5410184860229525.134154289157635 121.53608298602295 25.141341289157637 121.54595398602295tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2058826902543400134.post-23264071493681304242012-06-26T04:33:00.000+08:002012-06-26T04:33:03.270+08:00Dragon Boat Festival 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Last weekend we visited one of the famous Dragon Boat Festival in Taiwan. This comes in every year 5th day of the 5th Month according to the Lunar calendar, so it falls onto 23rd June 2012 for this year. On this particular day the dragon boat races are held on the rivers and lakes in Taiwan. However, in addition to the boat races there are many other traditions, rituals and special food for this particular festival. </span> <div>
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Provincial Highway No. 9 in Taiwan, starting at Su-<span class="GRcorrect" grphrase="65da40ba534d469200dc25e62aca2933a5cf4bc3" grtype="null" id="GRmark_65da40ba534d469200dc25e62aca2933a5cf4bc3_ao:0">ao</span> Township, Yilan and
ending at Hualien City, Hualien. With a portion built alongside very steep
cliffs high above the Pacific Ocean, it is a dangerous yet scenic drive. Famous
tourist stops include the Chingshui Cliffs and Tarako national park (close to
Hualien end) is along the highway. This road connects the northern part of
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