热带岛国斯里兰卡旧称锡兰，如同印度半岛的一滴眼泪，镶嵌在广阔的印度洋海面上。“斯里兰卡”在僧伽罗语中意为“乐土”或“光明富庶的土地”，有“宝石王国”、“印度洋上的明珠”的美称，被马可波罗认为是最美丽的岛屿，因为没有一个度假胜地能有与其媲美的海滨，无穷秘密的古城，丰富的自然遗产，以及独特迷人的文化。
斯国也被称为“红茶之国”。斯里兰卡以红茶闻名于世，始于1867年的红茶种植使她成为诸多顶级红茶的产地。
斯里兰卡风景优美，包括宗教圣山，美丽的海滩，荷兰殖民者留下的城堡，供奉着佛牙的宝塔，经历了几千年的古城，建立在巨大岩石上的宫殿，甚至有大象和豹等野生动物！除去这些，即便只是走在那里的街头，完全陌生的风情都能让人喜悦。而且斯里兰卡物价低廉，对中国游客很友好，非常适合度假。

Our Favourite Festivals

Virtually every week of the calendar there

热带岛国斯里兰卡旧称锡兰，如同印度半岛的一滴眼泪，镶嵌在广阔的印度洋海面上。“斯里兰卡”在僧伽罗语中意为“乐土”或“光明富庶的土地”，有“宝石王国”、“印度洋上的明珠”的美称，被马可波罗认为是最美丽的岛屿，因为没有一个度假胜地能有与其媲美的海滨，无穷秘密的古城，丰富的自然遗产，以及独特迷人的文化。
斯国也被称为“红茶之国”。斯里兰卡以红茶闻名于世，始于1867年的红茶种植使她成为诸多顶级红茶的产地。
斯里兰卡风景优美，包括宗教圣山，美丽的海滩，荷兰殖民者留下的城堡，供奉着佛牙的宝塔，经历了几千年的古城，建立在巨大岩石上的宫殿，甚至有大象和豹等野生动物！除去这些，即便只是走在那里的街头，完全陌生的风情都能让人喜悦。而且斯里兰卡物价低廉，对中国游客很友好，非常适合度假。

Our Favourite Festivals

Virtually every week of the calendar there’s a festival somewhere in Sri Lanka. The following list is our pick of the ones worth seeking out:

Navam Perahera, Colombo, February
Vesak Poya, throughout Sri Lanka, May
Kandy Esala Perahera, Kandy, July/August
Kataragama, Kataragama, July/August
Vel, Colombo and Jaffna, July/August

Best National Parks

With over a dozen national parks and forest reserves in Sri Lanka, you could spend months exploring them all. To help you prioritise, here’s our list of favourites based on accessibility, scenic beauty and presence of wildlife.

Yala National Park
Uda Walawe National Park
Minneriya National Park
Sinharaja Forest Reserve
Wilpattu National Park

Lie-Back-&-Relax Beaches

Sri Lanka’s east, south and lower west coasts are lined with bays, coves and beaches. Most structures along these coastlines experienced at least some damage during the 2004 tsunami, and many buildings were completely destroyed. The beaches themselves suffered least of all, although some are still being cleaned of rubble. Here are our favourite sand-and-sea getaways.

Kalkudah Bay Beach
Nilaveli
Unawatuna
Mirissa
Induruwa

Hill Country Scenery

Sri Lanka’s Hill Country covers a huge chunk of the island and almost all of it could be classed as ‘scenic’. For truly dramatic views, however, these are the top five.

Adam’s Peak
Ella
Horton Plains National Park
Knuckles Range
Haputale