The highlight of our tour was Kandy, which is the second capital in Sri Lanka.end-ofTags: sri lanka, travel, tourism, sirimavo bandernaike international airport, colombo, kandy, nuwera elia, bentota, ramayanaRelated StoriesFIFA World China High Purity Titanium Tubes manufacturers Cup 2018: Everything to know if you are travelling to RussiaSelf-drive travel gaining popularity in India. The government should encourage the businesses to open at night time.As you take the inter-city roads to the nearby urban centres like Colombo or Kandy, you realise how pollution free is the atmosphere, how disciplined are people and vehicles on the streets. He has been earlier the Dean of Symbiosis.

Amity and Whistling Woods, and is an avid traveler, having travelled on business or leisure to 41 nations till date.Indian tourists mainly come to Sri Lanka during the month of May due to the summer holidays. The other important highlights of the survey shows that, 45 per cent Indians come home with a memory of Sri Lanka being a beautiful tropical country; 30 per cent say that the people of Sri Lanka are nice and hospitable; 24 per cent talk about the pristine beaches with golden sand. It was here that Ravana's wife Mandodari visited her and that Hanuman met her for the first time, identifying himself with the finger ring of Rama. For us, we loved the diverse attractions. It was the last capital of the ancient kings' era of Sri Lanka.

However, the high-point of Bentota was the private sea-beach of Eden Resort where we stayed, and the tree-houses and designer swimming pool where one could have a drink or dinner even while floating. And the week-long journey across four cities of the nation and in this order, Kandy, Nuwera Elia, Bentota and Colombo, driven by the handsome smiling young man, Jaanaka of Red Apple Travels, taught me many a thing, like the entire journey from garden to cup of tea, moods and colours of hills and beaches, the preservation of Sita-Hanuman memories of the Ramayana times, and how the island-nation is dependent on and possessive of its 2 million strong tourist industry which contributes to one fourth of its annual revenue. However, I went during a non-peak time and enjoyed the quietude of the country-side.

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