Sri Lanka travel experience

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

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

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.

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.