Insight Guides: Sri Lanka
Language: English
Pages: 328
ISBN: 1780053231
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The lure of golden sands entices visitors to Sri Lanka, but this Indian Ocean island is also home to ancient cities, diverse cultures, and accessible wildlife. Be inspired to visit by the new edition of Insight Guide Sri Lanka, a comprehensive full-color guide, and discover all that this beguiling tropical isle has to offer.
Inside Insight Guide Sri Lanka:
- A fully-updated edition by our expert Sri Lanka author.
- Stunning, specially-commissioned photography that brings this beautiful country and its people to life.
- Highlights of the country's top attractions, including the old world charms of Galle Fort and the dramatic rock-fortress of Sigiriya, in our Best of Sri Lanka.
- Descriptive region-by-region accounts cover the whole country from bustling capital Colombo to the lush tea plantations of the Hill Country and beaches of the south.
- Detailed, high-quality maps throughout will help you get around and travel tips give you all the essential information for planning a memorable trip, including our independent selection of the best restaurants.
About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers’ needs. Insight Guides’ unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.
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that Kandyan officials had snatched some betel nuts from Moorish traders and refused to pay for them or give them back. Bugles echoed round the army base in Colombo and a battalion of the 51st Foot marched out “with the countenances of the soldiers full of cheerfulness and joy”. Some 6.4km (4 miles) out of town, a halt was called so that the officers could join friends for supper at the Cocoa-Nut Club overlooking the Kelani River. Reality took on a sterner complexion when the column entered the
Publications Hinduism The complex and disparate collection of beliefs known generically as Hinduism has been long established alongside Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Buddhism was born from Hinduism, and the two religions share many assumptions about the world: that we are born over and over again; that our present deeds and accumulated karma determine the course of our future lives; and that we may one day hope to escape the endless cycle of rebirths, a longed-for deliverance which Hindus call moksha.
include sweet-tasting star apples, red cherry-like lovi-lovi, and the strange wood apple, covered in an indestructible woody shell and usually served with honey to soften the taste of its bitter bright-red, pulpy flesh. Then there is the maverick durian, a huge green fruit whose smell, often compared to a blocked drain, usually puts people off sampling its delicious, nougat-flavoured flesh – although its popular reputation as an aphrodisiac assures it a loyal local following. Even bigger than
attracted by thoughtlessly dumped litter). The Gathering One of Sri Lanka’s – and indeed Asia’s – most spectacular natural sights is the so-called Gathering of the Elephants. During the dry season, more than 300 elephants converge on the retreating waters of the Minneriya Tank in Minneriya National Park – the largest such gathering of elephants anywhere in Asia. Small family herds of elephants congregate from all across the northeastern plains, walking 80km (50 miles) or more along traditional
cloaked in mythology and legend. The Ramayana also talks of the ancient mountain Aristha – thought to be Ritigala – from which Hanuman took a great leap to India to convey the news to Lord Rama that his wife Sita had been captured by Ravana, the demon king of Lanka. Forest monastery ruins at Ritigala. Getty Images Ritigala North of Habarana, the mysterious and seldom visited remains of the forest monastery of Ritigala ! [map] (daily 8am–6pm; charge) lie scattered around the lower flanks of