Sri Lanka, A country for a dream vacation

Before Travelling to any country in the world, it is better to understand the basics about the country ,
this will help the tourist to get a better picture of what they are going to face inside the country.
It doesn’t matter it takes little time to study as long as it helps to have apeaceful holiday

The 65610 sq.Km tear drop shaped island which is situated in the Indian ocean close to south of India, was well known in the past, for quality Blue Saphires and other varieties of quality gems, quality spices , ivory and best quality Tea., Arab sea merchants named it as SERENDIB and English planters named is as CEYLON. People who visited this small island from the past, gave a special name PARADISE ISLAND, because, it is very rich in everything, like a paradise on this earth. Only thing, what, they did not found was snow. Later in the 20th Century this was renamed as SRI LANKA.

Though it is small, Sri Lanka is one of the major Buddhist countries in the world from the very ancient time.Buddhists believe that the left jaw tooth relic of buddha is in the beautiful temple in Kandy,the capital city of hill country.People in the country are ever smiling, well educated friendly and like hospitality. They are very helpful for tourists. Most people are farmers cultivating rice vegetables and spices. and fisherman are in the coastal area. In the hill country mostly Indian originated Tamils work in tea plantations. also milk production is high in hill country.During the fruiting season country has more than 50 varieties of eddible tropical fruits and more than 30 varieties of fresh vegetables.Main foriegn exchange earner is expatriates to middle east and southest asian countries,secondly Garment export,Tea and Precious stone exports,Rubber and coconut exports.

Education and Health

Both Education and health facilities are freely provided by the government for the people.90% of males and 82 % of females can read or write, most people either understand or speak English. Country maintains a very good health standard. Most rural people maintain their health, with the help of Ayurveda, a 5000 years old, natural science of Life, which was developed by Indian yogi meditators in Himalaya to maintain good health with the help of nature. It’s amazing to understand how nature helps the well being of people. Please visit the Ayurveda page on this website for more details.Influence of Buddhism has given most people the cool quiet life with a rich culture and a history which is continuously recorded for 2500 years in palm leaf books and on stone.There are evidents that there had been inhabitants in this small island even before 29000 years.Still the archeological ruins are vissible of ancient Hospitals, Temples, and Man made large tanks with irrigation systems and Buildings which are from 2500 years giving evidence of a very rich ancient cultural heritage which cannot compared with the modern culture..

Since 2500 years in the past upto 1815 nearly 250 Kings ruled this country.After that three times the country was a colony, frst under Portugese in 1505 second under dutch 1640 and third under british 1815 -1948.
At present the country is ruled by a President elected by the people with the members of parliament leaded by a prime minister who is answerable to the President. President has full Executive powers . Sri Lanka had the first woman prime Minister in the political history of the world .She was Mrs. Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranayake. Her Husband was the earlier prime minister who was assassinated and the present President is, her daughter Mrs.Chandrika Bandaranayake Kumaranatunge.Present prime minister is Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse. There are 225 seats in the Parliament and more than 50 political parties which are symbolised by colours and logos. The main two parties which had the power since Independancy from British are United National Party which is symbolised by green colour elephant and Sri Lanka Freedom Party which is symbolises by blue hand.. Threre are many minor communist parties symbolised by red and different logos. For administration purposes country is devided into 9 provinces 25 Districts.100 Electorates. People over 18 years have the voting power.

Climate and landscape

There was a disturbance recently with recent tsunami on the 26th of December 2004,most of the coastal area was hit by the tsunami tidal wave, but by now everything has come to normal. Now there is no danger, because there are alarming systems, and also through experience, people can predict earlier, if there is danger. People are aware of such dangers and are constantly watching such dangers. Inotherwords it is more protected than earlier. These are accidents, accidents can happen anywhere in the world. There is no place in the world which is 100% safe. People who take the risk with courage, mostly win.