Sri Lanka, the ancient Taprobane, known until 1972 with the name of Ceylon is a splendid island nestled in the Indian ocean in south-east India. Island of spices, tea and coffee, but also of other agricultural products such as rice, vegetables, fruit and coconut palm products. Sri Lanka is a rich land with a wealth […]
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The fortress of Sigiriya: the Lion rock
Sigiriya the Lion rock is a natural inselberg rising from the jungle of central Sri Lanka. The caves and cavities of this spectacular rock were used in the third century as a refuge for Buddhist monks. A cobra-shaped rock stretches over the cobra cave, some Buddhist monks lived in this cave already in the 4th […]
Throughout Kandy it is as if the landscape had taken a bath of color and had come out decorated of such intense shades as to be blinding. The fruit in the markets, the Buddhist temple of Dalada Maligawa, the elephants decorated for the processions. All these things are a colorful vortex intertwined with the green […]
The island of Sri Lanka has an equatorial climate, with rather mild temperature ranges. Due to the influx of monsoons, the island has two distinct climatic seasons: a dry season and a wet season. A CLIMATE INFLUENCED BY MONSOONS Monsoons mainly affect the rain regime. The southwest monsoon brings rain on the central highlands and […]
Sri Lanka (Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka) is an island state in southern Asia, which occupies the entire island of Ceylon. This island is located in the Indian Ocean north of the equator and south of India. THE ANCIENT ISLAND OF CEYLON The Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar separate the island from […]