Welcome to Sri Lanka ! A Land Like No Other !

A Land like no other ! That is the best short discription that can be given of Sri Lanka. A Hybid mix of people, from the Native Veddah people, the Sinhala, Tamil, Moor, Malay, Java, Arab, the invading Europeans from Portugal, Holland and England, the influx of South Indians, all giving rise to the Proud nation state of Sri Lanka.

And, as I write today, it is a nation, a country that has got rid of the dreaded terrorists, which brainwashed the Tamil people and forced the ones that did not believe into fighting a separatist war that lasted for three very long decades.

It is the land where one can still see the Giant Squirrel, Giant Moths, Majestic Elephants, Boa Constrictors, Huge Crocodiles, Exquisite Peacocks and Painted Storks. It is the land where one is able to see the Flowers that Bloom at Midnight (Kadupul), flowers that resemble the Famous Kandyan Dancers, flowers that enshrine a Buddhist Pagoda (Sal Mal) and flowers that trap insects (Bandura).

It is the land where there are almost 200 waterfalls, ranging from 265 meters to just a few meters, leaping from their rocky mountains, the many rivers large and small flowing outwards to the ocean. The land of a Thousand and more man made lakes, used to irrigate the land and also to quench the thirst of the people, made more than Two Thousand Years ago and still being used today.

The Following articles have been written and submitted , some by visitors to our beautiful land and traveled in Sri Lanka using the services of Sri Lanka Tours and some by myself.
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1. The Veddah People
2. Ahuguntikayo -- The Gypsies of Sri Lanka
3. Devol Maduwa - Gam Maduwa
4.Festival of Kandy - The Esala Perahera
5.Cascading Diamonds - The Waterfalls of Sri Lanka