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Sri Lanka travel guides
18 complete guides covering 309 places in Sri Lanka, with honest pacing, maps, sources and advice for travelling with parents.
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- Anuradhapura12 placesSri Lanka's first great capital: giant white stupas, a 2,000-year-old sacred…
- Arugam Bay9 placesA surf town on Sri Lanka's east coast: warm water, elephant country inland and…
- Bentota18 placesA long south-west beach where a river meets the sea, with a famous…
- Colombo41 placesSri Lanka's commercial capital: a seafront promenade, Buddhist temples, a…
- Dambulla5 placesA dry-zone town built around a huge granite rock, with Sri Lanka's…
- Ella29 placesA small hill-country town at about 1,041 m, where tea slopes, a railway viaduct…
- Galle23 placesA Dutch-built sea fort you can walk end to end, with a lighthouse, old churches…
- Hikkaduwa11 placesA west-coast beach town with a protected coral reef, turtles, surf and sunsets…
- Jaffna21 placesThe Tamil heart of Sri Lanka: temple towers, a colonial fort, island ferries…
- Kandy24 placesSri Lanka's hill capital: a lake, a sacred tooth relic, tea country on its…
- Mirissa23 placesA small fishing-harbour town on Sri Lanka's south coast, known for a…
- Negombo20 placesA fishing town and lagoon on Sri Lanka's west coast, a few minutes from the…
- Nuwara Eliya25 placesTea slopes, a colonial lake town and cold, clear mornings at 1,868 metres: Sri…
- Polonnaruwa11 placesA medieval Sinhalese capital of brick stupas, stone relic houses and rock-cut…
- Sigiriya11 placesA granite rock rising from the forest, the ruins of a fifth-century palace on…
- Trincomalee12 placesA deep natural harbour on Sri Lanka's east coast, with an old Shiva temple on a…
- Udawalawe5 placesA small dry-zone town beside a large reservoir, built around jeep safaris to…
- Yala9 placesSri Lanka's best-known wildlife park, a dry southeastern lowland of scrub…