If talking about Shaoguan city, people won’t forget Danxia mountain and Nanhua monastery temple. If you are from Dongguan or Shenzhen, you just need to take a bullet train (CRH) to GZ east station. There you can buy a ticket to Shao’guan train station, which the trip takes 2.5 hours. After exiting the train station, [...]
Rambutan is some kind of an Asian tropical fruit which belongs to the family Sapindaceae. It is native to Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and elsewhere in south east Asia. Today from Exinkai, I’m going to tell you about the rambutan fruit in Sri Lanka. At the present, where I live in Sri [...]
Today from the Exinkai news, I have something very good to let you know. Now we have a facebook fan page for our blog. This is something that we hadn’t over the last several months after we started Exinkai travel blog for the first time in February 2011. At the present, majority of online websites, [...]
There is a liveliness in the cool, salt tinged breeze, the soft rustling of leaves and the effervescence of foam upon the beach, that blends with the distant call of a wild peacock, the trumpeting of elephants or the belling of an exited sambhur. Their harmony gives character and enchantment to the national parks of [...]
Nuwara Eliya – the city of light is one of the most beautiful cities in Sri Lanka which is located in the central part of the country. This place is famous for tea estates, mountains, vegetable and fruit farms and for its climate. Today with this post, I’m going to tell you something rare for [...]
Kumana, a magical name to all Sri Lankans, was alive again. The month of May heralds the breeding season and the tranquillity of this 600 acre mangrove swamp is shattered by the grating voices of the stork family, easily the most unmelodious of bird noises. Worse is the fact that it is augmented only by [...]
If elephants are the pride of Yala, then leopards weave a magical spell in Wilpattu. If in Yala they were furtive or distant, here their composure borders on suavity and visitors have not felt the pulse of this big park who were not lucky enough to see at least one leopard. For they walk long [...]
The topography of this comparatively new park bears little resemblance to the other two parks in Sri Lanka. It lies deep in the interior of the country in the lower foothills of the Uva province. It is 99 sq. miles in extent. Of course it has not sea frontage, lagoons or large waterholes but is [...]
Konark sun temple situated in the north eastern corner of Puri (Orissa) is a prime spot for the tourists and pilgrims in India. The Konark sun temple has derived its name from two Sanskrit words, Kona means corner and Arka means sun. It is dedicated to the God of Sun. At the present, even after [...]
Today is the January 1st of 2012. So at first, I wish you a happy new year. As a new year gift, today I’m going to tell you about a fruit. This fruit is not common in everywhere. I travelled to several countries, but couldn’t find this fruit except in Sri Lanka. I even don’t know [...]
