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Lonely Planet Sri Lanka (Travel Guide)

By Lonely Planet & Stuart Butler

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Lonely Planet

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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet Sri Lanka is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Follow in the footsteps of Buddha and modern-day pilgrims to the summit of Adam's Peak, wander the crumbling ruins and lost cities of the cultural triangle in the heart of the island or explore undiscovered beaches on the recently reopened east coast; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Sri Lanka and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely Planet's Sri Lanka Travel Guide:

Colour maps and images throughout
Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices
Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - tea, cuisine, wildlife, history
More than 50 maps
Covers Colombo, Galle, South, West and East coasts, the hill country, Jaffna, the ancient cities and more

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Stuart Butler, Iain Stewart.

About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sri Lanka

By DK

EYEWITNESS
Released: 2016-09-20
Paperback (288 pages)

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EYEWITNESS

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sri Lanka is your in-depth guide to the very best of this beautiful and diverse country.

Explore Sri Lanka region-by-region, from Colombo and the beaches on its idyllic west coast to Kandy and the Hill Country to Jaffna and the north. Visit Yala National Park to see wildlife, play a game of cricket, and take a pilgrimage to Adam's Peak.

Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sri Lanka.

   • Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance.
   • Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights.
   • Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums.
   • Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area.
   • Area maps marked with sights.
   • Detailed city maps include street finder indexes for easy navigation.
   • Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights.
   • Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations.

With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sri Lanka truly shows you this country as no one else can.

Series Overview: For more than two decades, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides have helped travelers experience the world through the history, art, architecture, and culture of their destinations. Expert travel writers and researchers provide independent editorial advice, recommendations, and reviews. With guidebooks to hundreds of places around the globe available in print and digital formats, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides show travelers how they can discover more.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: the most maps, photographs, and illustrations of any guide.

The Rough Guide to Sri Lanka

By Rough Guides

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Released: 2015-11-03
Paperback (472 pages)

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Rough Guides Limited

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The Rough Guide to Sri Lanka is the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to exploring this fascinating island country. Each chapter includes thoroughly researched travel information, hotel and restaurant listings, and thoughtful background on the environment, politics, culture, music and history, and a practical language guide ensures you can interact with locals. The full-color design combines glorious images to whet your appetite with a practical layout and dozens of accessible and accurate maps to guide you from the urban centers to the jungle, beaches and mountains.

Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Sri Lanka.

Insight Guides: Explore Sri Lanka (Insight Explore Guides)

By Insight Guides

Insight Guides
Paperback (144 pages)

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The lure of golden sands entices visitors to Sri Lanka, but this Indian Ocean island is also home to ancient cities, diverse cultures and accessible wildlife. Insight Guide Explore Sri Lanka is the ideal pocket companion for your trip: a full-colour guide containing 12 easy-to-follow routes around the country, now a blockbuster travel destination.
Inside Explore Sri Lanka:
� Discover the bustling capital of Colombo and the tea terraces in the hill country, by way of charming Galle Fort and the cultural triangle's great Buddhist temples.
� Experience the country's mouthwatering rice and curry-based cuisine and a performance of Kandyan drumming.
� Insight's trademark cultural coverage sets the routes in context, with introductions to Sri Lanka's shopping, entertainment options, wealth of activities on offer and key historical dates.
� Our recommended places to eat and drink are highlighted in each route, with even more suggestions in the directory section, which also contains a wealth of useful practical informationincluding a range of carefully selected accommodation to suit all budgets.
� Pull-out map with useful plotted routes.
� Evocative photography captures Sri Lanka's highly-varied and stunning tropical island scenery.

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Travel Guide: 101 Coolest Things to Do in Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka Travel, Sri Lanka Holidays, Colombo, Kandy, Galle)

By 101 Coolest Things

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Paperback (52 pages)

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Congratulations! You've Found the Ultimate Guide to Sri Lanka Travel!
You are super lucky to be going to Sri Lanka, and this guide will let you know all of the coolest things to do, see, and eat around the country, in places like Colombo, Kandy, Galle, Ella, Tangalla, Mirissa, Utuwatuna, Jaffna, and more.

Why You Need 101 Coolest Things to Do in Sri Lanka
This Sri Lanka guide will give you the lowdown on:

the very best things to shove in your pie hole, from comfort food like Sri Lankan chicken curry through to the best seafood restaurants to get a taste of the Indian ocean
incredible festivals, whether you would like to party on the beach or discover Colombo’s burgeoning arts scene
the coolest historical and cultural sights that you simply cannot afford to miss like monasteries hidden away in caves or museums that can teach you about the history of Buddhism in the country
the most incredible outdoor adventures, whether you want to have a canyoning adventure on the Kelani river or you’d like to try deep sea fishing
and tonnes more coolness besides!

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Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka (Vintage Departures)

By John Gimlette

VINTAGE
Released: 2017-03-21
Paperback (444 pages)

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VINTAGE

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“Brilliant.” —The Daily Telegraph

No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo, Gimlette ventures out in all directions: to the dry zones where the island’s 5,800 wild elephants congregate around ancient reservoirs; through cinnamon country with its Portuguese forts; to the “Bible Belt” of Buddhism; then up into Kandy, the country’s eccentric, aristocratic Shangri-la. In the course of his journey, Gimlette meets farmers, war heroes, cricketers, terrorists, a former president, survivors of great massacres—and perhaps some of their perpetrators. That’s to say nothing of the island’s beguiling fauna: elephants, crocodiles, snakes, storks, and the greatest concentration of leopards on Earth. Here is a land of beauty and devastation, a place at once heavenly and hellish—all brought to vibrant, fascinating life here on the page.

LUXE Sri Lanka (LUXE City Guides)

By LUXE City Guides

Luxe Limited
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he Resplendent Isle, Serendib, Ceylon, Sri Lanka... whatever you call it, Sri Lanka is spangled with exquisitely designed luxury villas, gorgeously renovated classic old hotels, amazing shops and bespoke services erupting all over the South. So, why not slip into something floaty, and let LUXE lead you astray... Think it s all lumpy mattresses and tea-planters pillows? Think again. We ve scoured the island to bring you a delicious range of stunning properties to stay in, as well as adventures from surfing to ballooning over the ravishing countryside, to leopard spotting and whitewater rafting, or arriving for a romantic picnic in a stunning old vintage car. Looking for the finest gems and the opportunity to customise or design your own jewellery? How about shelves full of amazing and unique homeware, decor and design, or stashes of lovely old Jaffna doors and original Dutch colonial antiques? Well, what are you waiting for?

The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The World Readers)

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Duke University Press

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The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India. The island’s recorded history of more than two and a half millennia encompasses waves of immigration from the South Asian subcontinent, the formation of Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu civilizations, the arrival of Arab Muslim traders, and European colonization by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, and finally the British. Selected texts depict perceptions of the country’s multiple linguistic and religious communities, as well as its political travails after independence in 1948, especially the ethnic violence that recurred from the 1950s until 2009, when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were defeated by the Sri Lankan government’s armed forces. This wide-ranging anthology covers the aboriginal Veddhas, the earliest known inhabitants of the island; the Kings of Kandy, Sri Lanka’s last indigenous dynasty; twenty-first-century women who leave the island to work as housemaids in the Middle East; the forty thousand Sri Lankans killed by the tsunami in December 2004; and, through cutting-edge journalism and heart-wrenching poetry, the protracted violence that has scarred the country’s contemporary political history. Along with fifty-four images of paintings, sculptures, and architecture, The Sri Lanka Reader includes more than ninety classic and contemporary texts written by Sri Lankans and foreigners.

Insight Guides: Sri Lanka

By Insight Guides

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Paperback (328 pages)

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Insight Guides

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Insight Guides: Inspiring your next adventure

The lure of golden sands entices visitors to Sri Lanka, but this Indian Ocean island is also home to ancient cities, diverse cultures, and accessible wildlife. Be inspired to visit by the new edition of Insight Guide Sri Lanka, a comprehensive full-color guide, and discover all that this beguiling tropical isle has to offer.

Inside Insight Guide Sri Lanka:

A fully-updated edition by our expert Sri Lanka author.

Stunning, specially-commissioned photography that brings this beautiful country and its people to life.

Highlights of the country's top attractions, including the old world charms of Galle Fort and the dramatic rock-fortress of Sigiriya, in our Best of Sri Lanka.

Descriptive region-by-region accounts cover the whole country from bustling capital Colombo to the lush tea plantations of the Hill Country and beaches of the south.

Detailed, high-quality maps throughout will help you get around and travel tips give you all the essential information for planning a memorable trip, including our independent selection of the best restaurants.

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers’ needs. Insight Guides’ unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

‘Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.’ - Wanderlust Magazine

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