Travel to Sri Lanka
Travel to Sri Lanka will surprise you. There you will find comfortable and moderate climate, rich biodiversity of flora and fauna, tropical rainforest and botanical gardens, add its varied land forms, with mountains, valleys, lakes and waterfalls contrasting with sandy, palm-fringed beaches and blue seas with coral reefs to explore.
Travel to Sri Lanka will reveal evidence of the island’s 2300 year old hydraulic civilization through manmade reservoirs remain alongside ruins of ancient cities that have been declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites. These include Anuradhapura (which flourished from the 5th century BC to the 10th century); Sigiriya (5th century); Polonnaruwa (9th to 14th centuries); and Kandy (16th to 19th centuries.
This pearl-shaped island country in South Asia, which is 31 kilometers off the southern coast of India, has a population of about 20 million inhabitants in all of its 65,610 sq. km. acreage. Sri Lanka is an epitome of rich variety in its physical compactness – a collective variety which stamps an indelible signature in virtually all areas of Sri Lankan lifetime. From the awesome geographical features like wetlands, lagoons, tropical rain forests and rivers, copiously enclosed by a wide expanse of scenic beaches and crystal-clear waters at the fringes; towards varied indigenous plants and creatures; and obviously, for the rich cultural variety of the persons – a perfectly assimilated mix of ethnicity, religion, festivals, customs and traditions, and food, descriptive of the island’s continuous encounter with foreign traders and immigrants all through its colored history.
What to do when you travel to Sri Lanka
If you travel to Sri Lanka, you will learn that Sri Lanka may be the residence of six Archeological Planet Heritage Sites from the UNESCO that characterize effectively the country’s deep cultural heritage, namely:
The ancient town of Sigiriya
The sacred city of Anuradhapura
The ancient metropolis of Polonnaruwa
The golden temple of Dambulla
The old town of Galle and its fortifications
The sacred metropolis of Kandy
There is in addition a seventh World Heritage Web site – the Sinharaja Forest reserve, that is accordingly designated as an Ecological Planet Heritage Web page by the UNESCO.
Travel to Sri Lanka can be glorious
The island’s glorious and sometimes turbulent past is represented by hundreds of dagobas, temples, monasteries and gardens, and paintings, sculptures, carvings ancient as well as colonial architecture, such as World Heritage Site of Galle Fort. Religious and cultural festivals are living monuments to be seen alongside more modern rituals, such as cricket, rugby matches, horse racing and billiard tournaments. These are but a few ideas of what it is like to travel to Sri Lanka.
