Explore Sri Lanka Magazine - October 1987

In this issue

Sri Lanka hangs like a pendant a little beyond the southern tip of India. It is a country with a multiplicity of peoples and faiths. A blend of traditions. A country and people who have absorbed the successive wave of influence from Vedic teachers to Aryan settlers and Buddhist reformers.
For its residents and visitors, Nuwara Eliya offers most in April when the season is in. Large numbers from Colombo and the coastal suburbs decamp for the hills in a tradition set by the Colonial British, talking in the air and then doing the rounds of horticultural shows, hill climbing in motor cars, pony races, bridge parties, and generously rubbing shoulders with the important.
Of all the memorable sights Sri Lanka has to offer the culture enthusiast, none is perhaps quite so haunting as the rock fortress of Sigiriya, meaning Lion Rock - a 500-foot monolith rising magnificently out of the dry central plain.
The elegance and exquisiteness of her handicrafts has earned Sri Lanka the reputation for fine craftsmanship.