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Luxury Sri Lanka Holidays

Falling like a teardrop from the Indian subcontinent, this lush paradise has an abundance of attractions. Verdant jungles drape over exaggerated mountains, white sand beaches glisten, ancient cities lay forgotten, traditional dances intoxicate the senses and locals exude a genuine, hospitable warmth.

Sri Lanka, a small island in the Indian ocean

Sri Lanka, is a small island in the Indian ocean. Despite being so small the country has a wide range of geographic features and is rich in natural beauty.

Large parts of Sri Lanka is covered in tropical forests, with hundreds of rivers flowing through them, often cascading in awesome waterfalls.

It's easy to go on and on about the natural beauty of Sri Lanka,

The southern and western regions have only two seasons, wet and wetter. Despite being a tropical island some parts of the country can almost be mistaken for deserts. Other regions experience rainy and dry seasons. The dry zone looks really wonderful just as the rains start to ease. People appear.

Most of the The country's 18.5 million population speak Sinhala, Tamil or English. Sinhala is the most widely spoken language and the Sinhala people make up the largest ethnic group. Interestingly this language is not spoken anywhere else in the world, other than by a few traders in Chennai India!.

A good twenty percent of the population lives in the westen province which is the home of capital Colombo. (Strictly speaking Sri Jayawardanapura is the political capital of Sri Lanka and Colombo the Commercial center. But Sri Jayawardanapura is a miniature city within Colombo).