CULTURAL HERITAGE

CULTURAL HERITAGE

  Sri Lanka’s cultural depth is recognized by UNESCO, which has declared six archaeological World Heritage Sites in the country: The sacred city of Anuradhapura The ancient city of Polonnaruwa The golden temple of Dambulla The ancient city of Sigiriya The sacred...
PEOPLE

PEOPLE

Sri Lanka is a multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural society, a reflection of the island’s encounter with successive foreign immigrants. But it all began with indigenous people, the forest people, hunter-gathers who exist today. The main ethnic groups are...
DIVERSITY

DIVERSITY

  Sri Lanka is a small miracle partly due to the compact physical diversity of this pearl-shaped island – but, as we shall see, this diversity extends to virtually every aspect of life, fringed by variously-shaped sublime beaches, from straight expanse to rocky...