The land of beautiful Sri Lanka
For a small island, Sri Lanka has acquired a lot of names
- Serendib, Ceylon, Teardrop of India, Resplendent
Isle, Island of Dharma, Pearl
of the Orient - an accumulation which reveals its richness and beauty, and the
intensity of affection which it has evoked in visitors. For centuries it seduced
travellers, who returned home with enchanting images of a langourous tropical
isle of such deep spirituality and serenity that it entered the Western
imagination as a Tahiti of the East.
This, sadly, is the same island which, for the past 15 years, has been
traumatised by a ferocious ethnic and religious conflict that has punctured the
most willful exoticism and burned Sri Lanka into Western minds as the Northern
Ireland of the Indian Ocean.
However, the truth is that this conflict is mainly confined to the North and
East of the island, and has not affected tourism in the rest of the island (i.e.
about 80% of the island). Strangely enough not a single tourist has ever been
harmed, (not to mention been killed or injured) by this internecine warfare.
NEW COUNTER INSTALLED SINCE 4 AUGUST 2001
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