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Elephant, about 300 wild Elephants, Wild Buffaloes, Wild Boar, Spotted Deer, Sloth Bear, Sambhurs,\u00a0<span class=\"citation-6 citation-end-6\">Leopards, Crocodiles, Jackals, 9 kinds of amphibians, 25 kinds of reptiles, 160 species of birds, 26 varieties of fishes, 78 varieties of<\/span>\u00a0butters are recorded from the Minneriya National Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":147,"template":"","class_list":["post-146","destination","type-destination","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minneriya national park - sands paradise<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eventme.lk\/sandparadise\/destination\/minneriya-national-park\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minneriya national park - sands paradise\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This National Park 8889 hectares in extent is famous for its\u00a0large population of Elephants\u00a0in herds of 100 to 150 roaming in the jungle and seen in the catchment area of the lake. 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