The Rough Guide to Sri Lanka by Rough Guides

Author:Rough Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Sri Lanka
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2018-09-21T13:33:41+00:00

Royal Palm Avenue and the Great Lawn

Running from the entrance, the principal thoroughfare, stately Royal Palm Avenue, bisects the gardens, heading in an arrow-straight line north to the Mahaweli Ganga. At the southern end of the avenue, the Great Lawn is home to Peradeniya’s most majestic sight: a huge Javan fig whose sprawling roots and branches create a remarkable natural pavilion. (There’s also an overpriced restaurant near here, and cheaper drinks in a kiosk next door.)

Running along the southern side of the Great Lawn, Double Coconut Palm Avenue is flanked with a cluster of stumpy coco de mer trees, native to the Seychelles, whose massively swollen coconuts – the heaviest ever recorded weighed 42kg – hold the record for the world’s largest wild fruit. There are also a few stunning kauri pines here from Queensland (they’re actually broadleaved trees, not pines), while a long line of strangely twisted Cook’s pines, looking rather like oversized pipe-cleaners, flank the east side of the lawn.

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