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16.Feeling The Healing Ayurveda

If you start to feel the burden of the centuries while in Sri Lanka you might appreciate an irony while you feel the tensions melt out of your body in an Ayurvedic sauna the design is more than 2500 years old. Ayurveda is an ancient practise and its devotees claim enormous benefits from its therapies and treatments. Herbs, spices,oils and more are used on and in the body body to produce balance. Some people go on multi week regimens in clinics others enjoy a pampering afternoon at a luxury spa.

17.Richly Spiced Food

Venture in to the entertaining pandemonium of a large Sri Lankan market such as those found in Colombo and Kandy and you'll soon see and smell the rich diversity of foods and flavours that come from the fertile land. An average Sri Lankan cook spends hours each day tirelessly roasting and grinding spices while mincing slicing and dicing all manner of foods. A seemingly humble rice and curry can consist of dozens of intricately prepared dishes each redolent of a rice and yes at times fiery goodness.

18.Horton Plains & World's End

The wild windswept Horton Plains high up in Sri Lanka's Hill Country are utterly unexpected in this country of tropical greens and blues but there are far from unwelcome You'll need to wrap up warm (a morning frost isn't uncommon) for the dawn hike across these bleak moorlands it's one of the most enjoyable walks in the country. And then suddenly out of the mist comes the end of the world and a view over what seems like half of Sri Lanka.

19.Visiting A Tea Plantation

It wasn't really all that long ago that Sri Lanka's Hill Country was largely a wild and ragged sweep of jungle clad mountains but then along came the British and they felt in need of a nice cup of tea. So they chopped down all the jungle and turned the Hill Country into one giant tea estate and you know what? The result is mighty pretty! Sri Lankan tea is now famous across the world and visiting a tea estate and seeing how the world's favourite cuppa is produced is absolutely fascinating.

20.Colonial Legacy

Yes the Brits were chased out at independence in 1948 but their legacy lives on in much more than an often impenetrable bureaucracy addicted to forms. Colombo has wide tree shaded streets where you'll see the structures of the empire at its most magnificent. The National Museum building is redolent with empire. Look around a little and you'ii find the colonial legacies of the Dutch and Portuguese as well. Just head to Fort and wander a bit. pausing at the new sensation the restored Old Dutch Hospital