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Sri Lanka is an island in the
Indian Ocean, located to the south of Indian Subcontinent.
Sprawling over the area of 65, 610 square kilometers, Sri Lanka
with its tear-dropped shape is dominated by the astonishingly
varied features of topography....Three zones can be divided by its
distinguished elevation: the Central Highland, the plains, and the
coastal belt.
Sri Lanka is the land of
multi-ethnic groups distinctively divided by two main
characteristics: language and religion which consequently
intersect to create four principal ethnic groups.
Sri Lankan society is
multi-ethnic and multi-religious since the pre-historic times;
each group is mainly characterized by their religions. The
majority ethnic group is the Sinhalese who practice Buddhism. The
second-largest group is the Tamils who are adherent to Hinduism.
As Sri Lankan population is
composed with multi-ethnic group, the religion in Sri Lanka is
inevitably diverse. Various communities in Sri Lanka recognize
four of the world's major religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam,
and Christianity....
It can be said that Sri Lanka
parliamentary democratic system was benefited by the establishment
of the Colonial Office during the British Rule from the 18th
century to the 20th century. When the country achieved the
independence in 1948, it established a parliamentary system
modeled on that of Britain....
Sri Lanka has enjoyed both
subsistence and commercial agriculture for centuries. Most of
agricultural products were exchanged in trades with India, its
closest neighboring country and European countries when the
Portuguese and the Dutch dominated the maritime trade those times.
Since Sri Lanka endows a
diversity of ethnic groups, language spoken in the country is
various. The two major ones widely used are, however, Sinhala
language spoken by the Sinhalese majority and Tamil language used
by the Tamils.
Owing to its long, rich history,
Sri Lanka endows exquisite arts evolving through the course of
time which has refined its culture to be unique and precious
heritage of the nation. Sri Lanka. Its pivotal position on the
ancient Silk Route made Sri Lanka a crossroad of cultural and
trade exchange of the West and the East.
Sri Lanka is one of the countries
that are never free form lively festival a whole year round.
Visitors will have an exceptional experience for witness its
bright and colorful tradition of Sri Lanka if they stumble on the
festive period. Most festivals in Sri Lanka are related to
religion and depend on the lunar calendar,....
Rice and curry,
boiled rice with curried vegetable, shaped with spices is the
typical Sri Lankan food. It can be served as lunch and dinner or
sometimes as breakfast as well. Sri Lankan curries are usually hot
and spicy, but demands for softening its taste can be done to
cater tourists' palates, especially the Westerners.
Being healthy is absolutely an
essential qualification of travelers, and be well-prepared for
your health before traveling is a good idea to do. Risks and
dangers in different places you visit are always possible to be
encountered; it is then even better to be ready to encounter that
kind of things which probably ruin your trip and undoubtedly
you.
Visitors coming to Sri Lanka
should have a valid passport. Seventy nationalities are exempt
from visa fee (only for tourist visa) for a period of 30 days on
arrival at Colombo Airport as following:
Telecommunication network and
services have considerably developed during the 1980s in Sri Lanka
and has been upgraded in 1990s with a new international exchange
and digital earth satellite system. Further investment is planed
to open investment market to foreign country.
The only international airport in
Sri Lanka is the Bandaranaike International Airport situated
at Katunayake, 30 kilometers from Colombo; it is reachable
by taxi or bus running regularly between the city and the airport
every 30 minutes. Train can be caught to the airport as well....
Country name: Conventional
long form: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka - Conventional short form:
Sri Lanka
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