After experiencing 15 days of travel throughout Sri Lanka, today I sum up the experience when
traveling to Sri Lanka
you can easily track.
1.Introduction Sri Lanka
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Buddha in Sri Lanka |
- Sri Lanka is a Buddhist cultural center in
ancient, Sri Lanka
is famous for relics thousands of years old, as well as spectacular natural
scenery make up the charm hard to resist.
- Sri Lanka is an island nation located in the
South of India, how India
about 30km when traveling by sea and also a strategic bridge between West Asia
and South East Asia.
2. Means to Sri Lanka
- You should
travel by plane. The Sri Lankan Airlines to include: Malaysia Airlines, Cathay
Pacific, SriLankan Airlines. Since no direct flights to Sri Lanka, most
of all flights must serial, serial majority trip flights are convenient, not
too complicated.
- Transportation
system of Sri Lanka
is quite diverse, so you can choose the appropriate means of transport.
- Public transport : moving by train, bus
- Buses have two
kinds : big car with no air conditioning, and air-conditioned small car.
- Transfer by tuk
tuk : If you move at short distances, you can hire tuk tuk . you should go with
more people to save money. Also you can hire a taxi or the quality carmaker.
3.Selection motels, quality
hotel in Sri Lanka
- There are many major cities such
as Colombo, Galle,
Kandy has many
luxury 5-star hotel. There are also a number of tourist attractions with hotel
systems.
4. Sri Lanka Cuisine
- Sri Lanka 's
culinary mix of colonial dishes and foreign traders. Thus the traditional
dishes of Sri Lanka and
flavor similar to India.
- The dish is to add
ingredients as coconut milk. Sri
Lanka's traditional dishes are dishes Hopper.
Characteristic of the cuisine of Sri Lanka which is spicy. So the
cuisine of Sri Lanka
is considered the world's most spicy.
5. The famous attractions in Sri Lanka
5.1. Sacred city of Kandy :
- Here visitors can visit the beautiful
scenery of the Wat Buddha Tooth Dalada Maligawa .
- Natha Devale temples dating from the 14th
century, is the oldest temple in Kandy with
architecture, typical of south India.
- Lankatilaka
temple built in the 17th century architecture of traditional Sinhalese temple
with carved wooden door.
- Also you can
visit: Dambulla cave temple, the holy city of Anuradhapura,
the ancient capital Polonnaruwa, Galle ancient
city and fortress, central highlands of Sri Lanka, Sinharaja Forest Reserve.
- The ancient city
of Sigiriya : This is considered a tourist
destination to attract tourists to Sri Lanka 's largest and oldest.
And this is also a famous pilgrimage destination of tourists to Sri Lanka.
5.2 Some places you can not ignore
Tangalle Beach
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Tangalle Beach |
- Tangalle Beach
is located in Hambantota coast is one of the most beautiful southern coast of Sri Lanka, seawater green jade, white sand, coconut
trees, beach combing long. This beautiful beach is surrounded by colorful coral
reefs and is the best place in Sri
Lanka for surfing and diving.
Adam 's
Peak
- Adam 's Peak is the highest mountain in Sri Lanka, this is the highest mountain in terms
of spiritual, religious consciousness of the people of Sri Lanka. The
road from the foot of the mountain to the top of 18km long, is quite convenient
for the pilgrims, with 5,200 stone steps, there are some pretty steep and
slippery sections but systematic handrails.
Polonnaruwa
- Polonnaruwa is the ancient capital of Sri Lanka and is one of the important
places of Buddhist Sri Lanka, recognized by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage.
Here, tourists can visit lots of ancient relics, especially the Gal Vihara -
ancient stone temple, built in the twelfth century reign of King Parakramabahu
I.
- In addition to visiting the Buddha relics teachers,
visitors can also visit some other places here as Nissanka Malla king's palace,
statue of king Parakramabahu I, lake Topa Wewa, Polonnaruwa
Archaeological Museum,
...
6. Note when tourism
here
• Sri
Lanka a lot of mosquitoes, especially in the
mountains, if you can bring a bottle of insect repellent gel. I was pretty much
a mosquito bite, but luck was not affected.
• When invited to eat, after eating you should clean your
discs.
• You can ask to sleep in the temple, and remember donate
some money.
• When someone gives you something. especially while you go
hiking or near the temple, which has a natural person calling you back and tied
the rope on your wrist, then tell you to matriculate donation, you say " I
do not carry money." if in the temple, you can donate 20 or 50 rupees,
depending on you.
• Food in Sri
Lanka is quite easy to digest, you should
prepare the toilet paper roll. But eating is not suffering from colic, do not
worry.
• Bananas here very cheap, you should buy more, carrying
bananas to eat every day for quality and strength enough to go back.
• Sri
Lanka in eating, street food problems do not
worry about the price, they will not charge much. Coconut : 40-50rupee / fruit.
Food roti curry + 1-2 + More cake, costs about 110 rupees.
• Should you agree on a price with the driver richshaw,
because no clock richshaw car to charge.
• you should go sandals, because each time to the temple must
go barefoot, sandals are the most convenient, not to worry about dirty feet.
• Here though disagree, reject, or mean nothing, people of Sri Lanka
have shrugged and shook his head. So do not be surprised too, if you ask
problems seats or something, you ask it again for sure, or go elsewhere if they
have to call you back.
• the majority of them only eat chicken, fish, and beans, it
will be difficult if you want to eat other foods.
• Travelling Sri
Lanka how many days is enough : for me, 15
days is still missing. But you take it at least 1 week. Go 3.4 days will not go
many places.
• Limit walk the streets after 7:30 pm ( unless you are in Colombo or Kandy,
Nuwara Eliya ), because it is dangerous. It's about people moving all things
home, shops shut off the lights, it was very dark..
• Sri
Lanka people eating late hours, they can eat
lunch at 1:30 or 2 pm, when the evening had dinner 8-9 hours, so if you are
invited to eat well do not be surprised.
• Should you move by train if you travel from Colombo towards or away from Colombo, the first reason : the beautiful
scenery, the second reason : traffic is terrible.
• You should not ignore the
seafood.
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seafood good |
• On 15 monthly audio ( full moon ), the Sri Lanka will
be a holiday, and prohibits drinking , buying , selling and trading of wine and
beer. most stores will sell vegetarian food, you try to eat vegetarian food in Sri Lanka
because it is delicious.
• Remember to wear long pants or
skirts past the knee, but I think that the girls should wear trousers.
• Colombo residents speak English quite well
and fluently, do not be surprised to find a group to communicate in English.
Wish you a trip to Sri Lanka
and safe fun.