Sri Lanka, the 65,525sq km small island lies to the south of India, the gem of the Indian Ocean, is now dubbed as the best tourist destination in the world. Yet, only a fraction of the tourists ever experience the real Sri Lanka as the values of life styles, the culture, adventure etc are outside the confines of the artificial hotel based tourism tanneries which presents only a glimpse of Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is known for its wide and varied climes that varies from the highest peak of Piduruthalagala at 8200ft (2700m approximately) down to the world famous beautiful sandy beaches. Within this span it offers all kinds of wonderful and beautiful sites and scenes.  The velvety green round-topped hills, gushing and cascading waterfalls, evergreen rainforests, other forests of all types, vast open lush green paddy fields, thousands of man made lakes and tanks, silver lines of long rivers, scrub jungles, open sand plains. Except for snow and ice, all kinds of climes and terrains are woven encircling the central and southern hill countries.  The beauty of this situation is that, any of these places can be reached from any other within a short span of few hours.

Area : 65,610 sq. km (25,332 sq mi )
Location : Southern Asia
Government : Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
President : Mahinda Rajapakshe.
Currency : Sri Lankan Rupees (1 US$ = approx 104 rupees)
Time : Sri Lanka Standard Time Zone (UTC+5:30)
Capital : Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte (6°54′N 79°54′E)