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Colombo City - Pettha Ariel View Kandy Lake and Dhalada Maligava

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Arugambay Sigiriya Dutch port - Galle Whale Watching

vicinity, a beautiful botanical gardens. somebody realized that the deep blue salty air. The result is an enchanting old
In case you need further blessings was home to more than just a few little town that has recently become home
from the gods, there’s also a series of fish. It turns out that the waters off Sri to dozens of art galleries, quirky shops,
fascinating ancient temples. Lanka are home to the planet’s biggest boutique cafes and guesthouses. For
creature, the blue whale (not to mention tourists, it’s without doubt the number-
HORTON PLAINS & the slightly smaller sperm whale). Now, one urban attraction in the country.
WORLD’S END
SURFING AT ARUGAM BAY SHOPPING IN COLOMBO
The wild, windswept Horton Plains,
You’ll need to wrap up warm (a morning The heart of Sri Lanka’s nascent Part of the magic of Colombo - yes,
frost isn’t uncommon) for the dawn surf scene, the long right break at you read that right - is going on a retail
hike across these bleak moorlands; it’s the southern end of Arugam Bay is binge. Even as parts of the world race to
one of the most enjoyable walks in the considered Sri Lanka’s best. From a big-box future, Colombo’s markets in
country. And then, suddenly, out of the April to September you’ll find surfers Pettah heave and hurl with goods and
mist come the end of the world; and riding the waves; stragglers catch the offers, and just general chaos.
a view over what seems like half of Sri random good days as late as November.
Lanka. Horton Plains from World’s End Throughout the year JAFFNA & THE REDISCOVERED

VISITING A TEA PLANTATION RICHLY SPICED FOOD NORTH
& WATER FALLS Venture into the entertaining In Jaffna, everything seems different,
pandemonium of a large Sri Lankan especially the language: the rapid
It wasn’t really all that long ago that market, such as those found in Colombo
Sri Lanka’s Hill Country was largely and Kandy, and you’ll soon see and fire staccato of spoken Tamil is a real
a wild and ragged sweep of Jungle smell the rich diversity of foods and change from singsong Sinhala. So too
clad Mountains; but then along came flavors that come from the fertile land. the cuisine: singularly spiced and, in
the British and they felt in need of a An average Sri Lankan cook spends season, complemented by legendary
nice cup of tea. Sri Lankan tea is now hours each day tirelessly roasting and mangoes. And perhaps even the light:
famous across the world, and visiting a grinding spices, while mincing, slicing it has a distinctive quality, reflected as
tea estate and seeing how the world’s and dicing all manner of foods. deep garden greens in Jaffna’s suburbs.
favorite cuppa is produced is absolutely
fascinating. BELOVED GALLE FORT COLONIAL LEGACY
WHALE WATCHING AT Man and nature have joined forces in The Brits were chased out at
MIRISSA Galle Fort to produce an architectural independence in 1948, but their legacy
work of art. The Dutch built the streets lives on in much more than an often
People once visited the beaches of and buildings, the Sri Lankans added impenetrable bureaucracy addicted to
southern Sri Lanka to laze under palm the color and style, and then nature forms. Colombo has wide, tree-shaded
trees and maybe go and peer at a few got busy covering it in a gentle layer streets where you’ll see the structures of
little fish on a diving excursion. Then of tropical vegetation, humidity and the empire at its most magnificent.

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