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Royal Botanic Gardens Sri Lanka’s Botanical Garden at Peradeniya have a long and proud history. It was formally established in 1843 with plants brought from Kew Garden, Slave Island, Colombo, and the Kalutara Garden in Kalutara. The Royal Botanic Garden, Peradeniya was made more independent and expanded under George Gardner as superintendent in 1844. The Garden came under the administration of the Department of Agriculture when it was established in 1912. Royal Botanical Garden, Peradeniya is located in close proximity to the city of Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. It is renowned for its collection of a variety of orchids. It includes more than 300 varieties of orchids, spices, medicinal plants and palms trees. Attached to it is the National Herbarium. The total area of the botanical garden is 147 acres (0.59 km2), at 460 meters above sea level, and with a 200 day annual rain fall. Over 1.4 million people visit Sri Lanka’s botanic gardens every year. And that is in addition to the 5% of the nation’s schoolchildren who visit annually. As a profit-making public institution, employing almost 450 people, the National Botanic Gardens are uniquely placed to educate by stealth, taking advantage of the pleasure and joy experienced by visitors to share, gradually, our growing knowledge and expertise in conservation, biodiversity, floriculture and sustainability.  Hot Air Ballooning Whale & Dolphin Watching Yapahuwa Mihintale Yala Turtle Hatchery Spice Gardens Sigiriya Royal Botanic Gardens Nuwara Eliya Negombo Minneriya Kaudulla Kandy Temple Kandy Horton Plains Galle Dambulla Badulla Colombo Polonnaruwa Anuradhpura
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