Hikkaduwa city Sri Lanka is a sleepy town at a 3 hours distance by train from the capital city of Colombo. The city is perfect for holidays with exciting opportunities to holiday for weekends. The city is popular for excellent opportunities for surfing and turtles where one comes across turtles everywhere in the water.These beautiful sceneric coral areas can be visited in Hikkaduwa sea area by glass fitted boats. In this area stones with the shape of butterfly and other flying insects also can be found. Around Sri Lanka 183 coral rocks are identified in the coastal belts. Out of these around 170 can be found in Hikkaduwa Stone flower garden. Out of this stone garden 25 are special verities which belong to only Hikkaduwa area. Unawatuna coral rock is identified by two names Depadrus and thotatus. It is the only coral rock identified by two names. These types of corals were introduced to world by a Portugees aquantic resource scientist. There are around 200 types of star fish also living in this area.
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