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DEHIWALA ZOO
 By
the standard of the developing world, the zoo, 10km
south of Fort, treats its animals well though the big
cats and monkeys are still rather squalidly housed.
It has its detractors, rather squalidly housed. It has
its detractors, however: 'a disgraceto mankind' is how
one visitor describe it. You wonder what they had have
to say about zoo in Dhaka. The major attraction is the
elephant show at 5:15pm, when elephant troops on stage
in ture trunk-to-tail fashion and perform a series of
feats elephantine agility. The zoo had a wide collection
of other creatures, including a fine range of birds
and an aquarium. There is a charge for bringing camera.
VIHARAMAHADEVI PARK
 This
is Colombo's biggest park, originally called Victoria
Park but renamed in the 1950s after the mother of King
Dutugemunu. It's notable for its superb flowering trees
in march, April and early May. Cuttin across the middle
of the park is the board Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawathy (Green
Path). Colombo's white-domed old town Hall or 'white House'
overlooks the park from the northeast. Working elephants
sometimes spend the night in the park, happily chomping
on plam branches.
CINNAMON GARDENS
 Cinnamon
Gardens, about 5 km south of Fort and 2km inland, is Colombo's
ritziest address, full of overgrown residences and embassies.
A century ago it was covered in cinnamon plantations.
Today, as well as elegant tree-lined streets and the posh
mansions of the wealthy and powerful, it contains the
city's biggest park, several sports grounds and a cluster
of museums and galleries.
THE FORT
 Originally
a fort during the Portuguese and Dutch periods but now
simply the commercial center of the country and the
site of most major offices, big hotels, some of the
better shops, airline offices, banks, main post office,
immigration office, travel agents and restaurants. Within
Fort are several places of tourist interest which can
be conveniently seen on foot. The colonial buildings
include the Presidential Secretariat, previously the
parliament house, the Grand Oriental Hotel, built in
the mid 19th century as barracks for soldiers, the Lighthouse
Clock Tower which along with being.
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