Touring Holidays in Sri Lanka
Touring Sri Lanka with a personal chauffer is a very popular way of visiting this wonderful holiday destination which offers a richness in scenery, with a great variance between the beaches and inland, of historical and archaeological sites, of peoples and cultures.
The island, which lies off the south-east tip of India, is fringed by classic Indian Ocean beaches of long stretches of sand, lapped by blue ocean and fringed by coconut palms. Inland the countryside offers verdant tea-clad hills, streams and waterfalls near Nuwara Eliya, known as ‘Little England’ and highland areas of rhododendron, tropical rain forest of teak and ebony, and national parks of scrub and lagoons, home to abundant wildlife from birds to leopards and of course, elephants.
Sri Lanka has some outstanding Buddhist cultural and archaeological sites of which the Dambulla cave temples and the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy are world-famous. Pilgrimage centres and religious festivals are very important to the people with several sites being sacred to Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims alike. It must not be forgotten that it was the spices of this island that attracted the Europeans and today are not only the spices prevalent in Sri Lankan cuisine but the influences of the Portuguese, Dutch and most recently the British can be seen in the country. Sri Lanka is really a land waiting to be discovered by people who will appreciate not only the variety; the scenery, the wildlife, the culture and the history but also the inherent quality of this country and its people.