Kanneliya

Kanneliya is another rain forest is located close to the famous Sinharaja forest. It has almost the same climate and lot of similarities to the Sinharaja forest. We there on 31st March 2012 and 1st April 2012 and went to on 2 hikes. Our main mission was photography, so we were all prepared for the rain (which did not fell for our luck) and leeches.

Pol Mal Karawala (Golden Tree Snake)

Hump Nosed Lizard

A large Spider

Wooden Bridge near Anagimala Waterfall

A Monkey

Park near Waters Edge

Ever since the government took control of Waters Edge the only good thing happened to that (or around that area) is this new park.

Sailboat

Rowing

Footpath View-1

Lake View

Lights

Footpath View-2

A kind note to those who plan to visit this park: The Park is yet unpolluted and it's your responsibility maintaining it that way.

Stockholm

The capital of Sweden, probably more beautiful in the Summer but the beauty was not totally gone away in the Winter. Since Stockholm is near to the cost of the Baltic Sea it was covered with Snow in the winter of 2011/2012.

Stockholm has its own heritage and it’s filled with buildings with lovely ancient architecture and those are not only limited in the Old Town area. Stockholm is an untapped yet so modern city.

Guards of the Royal Palace (Kungliga Slottet)

Captain’s cabin of warship Vasa

A Statue in the Old Town

An old-style ship

Chinese Spring Festival

The Confucius Institute presented Chinese Spring Festival which is an event dedicated for Chinese Martial arts and Chinese Music. It was held at the Karlstad University on 17th February 2012.

Sword Performance

Performance of Chinese traditional weapons

Chinese Folk Musical Performance

Rally Sweden

The Swedish Rally for the WRC 2012 took place between 9th to 12th February 2012 in North Varmland. We went to see the races in the woods on 11th February 2012 and it was very different to Formula racing. The track was completely covered with snow and the drivers did an amazing job to stay in the track and race.

A Rally Car taking a turn on Snow

The famous jump in the Rally Sweden

The award ceremony was held on 12th February 2012 at the Karlstad City Center. The Winner of the 60th Swedish Rally was Jari-Matti Latvala while P. G. Anderson winning the SWRC event.

Jari-Matti Latvala celebrating the win

P. G. Anderson and the co-driver celebrating the SWRC win

Ice Hockey

Ice Hocky very special for the Swedes. I went to see the Ice Hocky game between the teams from Gothenburg and Karlstad (FBK) on 2nd February 2012 at the Löfbergs Lila Arena.

An Ice Hockey player's "Show Off"

After a failed attempt to score

The goal keeper entering the field

Skiing

Just like Ice Skating, Skiing was something new for me. Again I was only watching people Skiing and watching them was fun. Swedish kids are real pros in Skiing; there were some amazing Snowboarders too :)

A kid playing on Snow

Snowboarder

A kid Skiing