Have you picked on island paradise Sri Lanka as a tour destination?

The island of Sri Lanka is shaped like a teardrop in the heart of the Indian Ocean and is the world's famous producer of Ceylonese Tea, known for its restorative qualities and spirit-reviving ability to de-stress and detoxify. A unique blend of varied culture, crafts and cuisine makes Sri Lanka an exciting and adventurous bid for a tour destination, especially for the nature lovers that global tourists need be. Earlier referred to as Ceylon, long-remembered for being the location of the radio station belting out golden oldies and clever commentary by the host of the program, Sri Lanka is today a multicultural and metropolitan mix of modern and tradition lifestyles.

Sri Lanka as a tour destination: what it offers the modern tourist today, socially and culturally.

A unification of various cultures and languages, Sri Lanka also affords an openness and genuine acceptability to all its citizens and visitors in terms of reverence for secular beliefs. Different religions co-mingle with Buddhism and Islam, Christianity and Hinduism receive equal veneration from the state, as do the different tongues spoken here; predominant ones being Sinhalese, Tamil and English.

Sri Lanka as a tour destination: a quick guide to popular hotspots

Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital affords a glimpse into the country's evolving strength as a modern and proudly-true-to-its-culture civilization and so, is a must visit spot; while other hotspots of tourist interest include Kandy, Galle, Sigiriya, Trincomalee, Hikkaduwa, Nuwara Eliya and Jaffna!

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