Sri Lanka’s international airport in Colombo is just a 1.5 hour flight away from Chennai and 2.5 hours from Mumbai, a duration short enough to theoretically qualify as a domestic flight. So if you live in India and want to take a foreign trip that doesn’t involve a long flight, Sri Lanka should be at the top of your list. (Read on to know more about the Sri Lanka visa for Indian citizens and others.)
Once the exclusive preserve of Sri Lankan royalty, Peradeniya Royal Botanical Garden in Kandy has cannonball trees lining certain sections of its pathways. While the garden is known more for its collection of orchids, some of which were very pretty…
I only stopped at Gregory Lake in Nuwara Eliya long enough to take a few pictures on the way up to Seetha Amman Temple. I could see locals enjoying rides on speed boats and ponies and it seemed like a…
Sri Lanka’s most revered temple and the No.1 attraction in Kandy, the Dalada Maligawa or Temple of the Tooth Relic, as the name suggests, houses a tooth of Lord Buddha. Kept in a casket, the tooth is believed to have…