Gal Oya City
Gal Oya is a region in Sri Lanka known for the Gal Oya National Park, established in 1954. The park features the Senanayake Samudraya, the country's largest reservoir, and diverse wildlife, including elephants. It offers boat safaris, showcasing the park's natural beauty and biodiversity.
Monkey Mountain
The Gal Oya area is resplendent with forest and lush with vegetation. Totally off-the-beaten-track and off-limits during the war, the area has avoided much development and the landscape is mostly unspoiled. Living within the deep forests surrounding the national park are the Veddas – Sri Lanka’s dwindling indigenous community, a mostly unheard of tribe who claim that this particular area has an unusually high density of medicinal plants that can cure any disease. This sense of mystery and mystique seems to be intrinsically linked with the landscape. From above one can’t see a thing through the thick bowers of the forest, cloaking the area in secrecy. But it is not only a rich range of plant life that you will find in these forests. Thirty-two types of mammals have been recorded in this area, as well as a notably wide variety of birds and reptiles. You are unlikely to see the larger mammals, but you will definitely come across some interesting birds, butterflies and reptiles. Climb to the top of Monkey Mountain for panoramic views of the surrounding forest.
About Ampara District
Ampara is belongs to the Eastern Province. of Sri Lanka It is a remote city on the East Coast of Sri Lanka, about 360 km from the capital city of Colombo.Ampara is the largest paddy harvesting province in the country, and has the Indian Ocean on the east coast of Sri Lanka as a fisheries resource. Most of the civilians are Sinhala, while Tamils and Moors also live in the coastal parts of the district.
About Eastern Province
The Eastern Province is one of the 9 provinces of Sri Lanka. The provinces have existed since the 19th century but they didn't have any legal status until 1987 when the 13th Amendment to the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka established provincial councils. Between 1988 and 2006 the province was temporarily merged with the Northern Province to form the North-East Province. The capital of the province is Trincomalee. The Eastern province's population was 1,460,939 in 2007. The province is the most diverse in Sri Lanka, both ethnically and religiously.
Eastern province has an area of 9,996 square kilometers (3,859.5 sq mi).The province is surrounded by the Northern Province to the north, the Bay of Bengal to the east, the Southern Province to the south, and the Uva, Central and North Central provinces to the west. The province's coast is dominated by lagoons, the largest being Batticaloa lagoon, Kokkilai lagoon, Upaar Lagoon and Ullackalie Lagoon.