{"id":12248,"date":"2022-12-21T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T08:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilankatravelphotography.com\/?p=12248"},"modified":"2023-06-05T11:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:36:39","slug":"minneriya-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilankatravelphotography.com\/?p=12248","title":{"rendered":"Minneriya National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">Minneriya National Park is located in north central province of Sri Lanka in close proximity to the world heritage sites of Sigiriya Fortress, Dambulla Rock Temple and picturesque Pidurangala rock.\u00a0 Also the park is located in between the Two ancient capitals, Anuradhapura and Polonnnaruwa.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">The heart of national park is the ancient Minneriya tank and a large number of Sri Lankan elephants gather to the grass fields on the edges of the catchment area in the evenings.\u00a0 During the dry season the gathering of wild elephants could be as big as 300, which is believed to be the largest gathering of elephants in the world<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wasgamuwa and Kaudulla national parks are the other parks near Minneriya, and among these three parks,\u00a0 Minneriya is the\u00a0 dominant place for elephant gathering especially in dry season.\u00a0\u00a0 It is also a prominent bird watching site in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;\">The entrance of the park is situated 182 kms North from Colombo<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wild-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/srilankatravelphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Elephant-Mather-and-Baby.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srilankatravelphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srilankatravelphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srilankatravelphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srilankatravelphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srilankatravelphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/srilankatravelphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srilankatravelphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srilankatravelphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srilankatravelphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srilankatravelphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}