Sri Lanka - A Small Miracle

There are true beauties of Sri Lanka, a calm and serene countryside with smiling people matched by an enticingly simple way of life. Legends as well as history records that Sri Lanka has always delighted visitor to its shores. For countless centuries it’s fragrant spices, priceless gems and pearls, legendry beauty, sublime culture and friendly people captivated princes, poets, traders, empire-builders and admires. The island’s beauty, abundance and culture earned for it much praise and many admiring names. Ancient Moorish merchants called Sri Lanka the “Island of Delight” To early Arab traders it was ‘Serandib’, the land of happy surprises, and to the medieval explorer Marko Polo, ‘the finest island in all the world’. American novelist Mark Twain called it ‘beautiful, and most sumptuously tropical’. Mahathma Gandhi was convinced that Sri Lanka’s natural beauty was ‘unsurpassed on the face of the earth’.
Today too, this beauty, abundance and variety, magic and magnetism enchants visitors. A small tropical island set in the sunlit surf on the Indian Ocean, high elevations in its central highlands produce sudden, surprising and delightful geographical contrasts and variety. Thus 160 km. From the very tropical seaport commercial capital Colombo, the hill-resort of Nuwara Eliya often has hoarfrost on chilly nights.

The total land area is 65,610 Square Kilometers and the entire population is approximately twenty one million and comprised with Sinhalese (major inhabitants), Tamils, Muslims, Burger, Malay and a small portion of other nationals. And also indigenous people, forest dwelling Veddahs live in their habitats in the central foot-hills of the country. This multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural society, a reflection of successive waves of foreign immigrants. 
No wonder, Sri Lanka is a small miracle