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SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL EXPERT THINKS SRI LANKA IS A WONDERFULLY GENTLE COUNTRY HAVING GREAT VARIETY OF LANDSCAPES AND EXPERIENCES

By Walter Jayawardhana

United Kingdom’s national daily the Times in its online travel section thinks Sri Lanka is a wonderfully gentle country and in a week you can enjoy a great variety of landscapes and experiences.

Writing an advisory the newspaper’s Sunday edition travel expert Richard Green said, “Sri Lanka is a wonderfully gentle country and in a week you can enjoy a great variety of landscapes and experiences. Mind you, if you can stretch to it, a nice tonic after the sightseeing and driving is a few days at one of the country's fine beaches.”

Greene further said in his recommendation for intended visitors, “I'd say your best route is a clockwise circle around the south and west of the island. Begin in Colombo, where all international flights arrive, then drive up past the Pinnawela elephant orphanage before spending say three nights near to Sigiriya for the magnificent rock fortress there, the wondrous Buddhist caves at Dambulla, and the ancient city of stupas at Polonnaruwa.

“From here, drive to the lovely town of Kandy for a couple of nights; long enough to visit the sacred temple where a tooth of the Buddha is housed, enjoy the bustle of the historic colonial area markets, and join the locals in an evening stroll around the lakeside promenade.

“Head south from here and climb up through the delicately terraced hillsides of tea country, where it's easy to call in at a working plantation, before staying the night in the misty little hill station of Nuwara Eliya. If you can, stay choose to stay at the Tea Factory Hotel, which is a brilliant conversion of an old processing plant. The outside is all corrugation and tin; while inside the rooms are super cosy with wooden floors, and tea making facilities.

“All of the good tailor made specialists will be able to help plan a tour; the cost will be mainly affected by the standard of hotels that you prefer.”

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