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Sri Lanka: The Pearl of the Indian Ocean |
Monday, 07 January 2008 | ||||
Five centuries before Christ, Sri Lanka was a land throbbing with vitality and a well-ordered civilization. Cities, palaces, reservoirs, parks, temples, monasteries, monuments and works of art bore testament to the character, imagination, culture, philosophy and faith of the people of Sri Lanka, the Resplendent Land. Vestiges of this ancient civilization are abundantly extant today.
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (Sinhalese, Tamil: known as Ceylon before 1972) is an island nation in South Asia, located about 31 kilometers (19.3 mi) off the southern coast of India. Popularly referred to as the Pearl of the Indian Ocean, it is home to around twenty million people. The island was renamed Sri Lanka, meaning "resplendent land" in Sanskrit, in 1972, before which it was known by a variety of names: Serendib, Ceylon, Teardrop of India, Resplendent Isle, Island of Dharma, Pearl of the Orient. This colorful collection reveals its richness and beauty, and the intensity of the affection it evokes in its visitors.
Even in the evening crowds are rarities. Exotic fish and marine plants are found on the reef close to the south coast. Swimming, diving and sunbathing are favorite activities of foreign visitors. The latter two activities have never caught on with Sri Lankans. Surf-boards are hard to come by in Sri Lanka. But many of the better resort hotels will be able to provide you with one. A former hippie destination and still one of the most popular south coast locations Unawatuna is best known for its golden beaches, and the reef that runs very close to it. But it is also the home of the Buena Vista hills, which is supposedly a part of the Himalayas. The beaches at Unawatuna are a breeding ground for turtles, with many making the hard trek through the sands to lay their eggs.
Colombo is the exotic commercial capital. It has a great collection of 5-star hotels on the beach-front. The place is very relaxed but there are lots of clubs and casinos where the night never ends.
Aukana.
There are many stories about who lived in this palace and why it was built, but however attractive they may be the fact is that no-one really knows why this place was built.
Sigiriya has it all - a blood-stained history full of intrigue, astonishing frescos of bare-breasted maidens painted 15 centuries ago, a wall covered in graffiti that is more than 1,000 years old and, to top it all, Asia's oldest surviving landscape garden.
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