Planning your trip to Sri Lanka?
What to see in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s superb beaches lie all along its coastline, with sandy coves and estuaries and long palm-fringed stretches. They vary greatly in character. Beaches on the west coast of the island, conveniently close to Colombo and the airport, tend to be the most crowded, but offer opportunities for water […]
CINNAMON IN SRI LANKA
One of Sri Lanka’s most attractive commodities, in the eyes of the Portuguese and Dutch, was the plentiful Cinnamon which grew along the west coast of Sri Lanka. Today Sri Lanka is still producing over 90% of the world’s cinnamon. Cinnamon — “the bride around whom they danced” — grew wild in the jungles and […]
About Sri Lanka – Why travel to Sri Lanka?
This is a brief guide to the entire island of Sri Lanka, with principal sites and why you should visit Sri Lanka. This is our island of paradise, in the heart of the turquoise blue Indian Ocean. A personal representative of the pope who arrived in Sri Lanka over six centuries ago wrote that “From […]