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Srilanka
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An island in the Indian Ocean off the southeast tip of India, Sri Lanka is about half the size of Alabama. Most of the land is flat and rolling; mountains in the south-central region rise to over 8,000 ft (2,438 m).
Government

Indo-Aryan emigration from India in the 5th century B.C. came to form the largest ethnic group on Sri Lanka today, the Sinhalese. Tamils, the second-largest ethnic group on the island, were originally from the Tamil region of India and emigrated between the 3rd century B.C. and A.D. 1200. Until colonial powers controlled Ceylon (the country's name until 1972), Sinhalese and Tamil rulers fought for dominance over the island. The Tamils, primarily Hindus, claimed the northern section of the island and the Sinhalese, who are predominantly Buddhist, controlled the south. In 1505 the Portuguese took possession of Ceylon until the Dutch India Company usurped control (1658–1796). The British took over in 1796, and Ceylon became an English Crown colony in 1802. The British developed coffee, tea, and rubber plantations. On Feb. 4, 1948, after pressure from Ceylonese nationalist leaders (which briefly unified the Tamil and Sinhalese), Ceylon became a self-governing dominion of the Commonwealth of Nations.

S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike became prime minister in 1956 and championed Sinhalese nationalism, making Sinhala the country's only official language and including state support of Buddhism, further marginalizing the Tamil minority. He was assassinated in 1959 by a Buddhist monk. His widow, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, became the world's first female prime minister in 1960. The name Ceylon was changed to Sri Lanka (“resplendent island”) on May 22, 1972.

The Tamil minority's mounting resentment toward the Sinhalese majority's monopoly on political and economic power, exacerbated by cultural and religious differences, erupted in bloody violence in 1983. Tamil rebel groups, the strongest of which were the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Tamil Tigers, began a civil war to fight for separate nation.

President Ranasinghe Premadasa was assassinated at a May Day political rally in 1993, when a Tamil rebel detonated explosives strapped to himself. Tamil extremists have frequently resorted to terrorist attacks against civilians. The next president, Chandrika Kumaratunga, vowed to restore peace to the country. In Dec. 1999, she was herself wounded in a terrorist attack. By early 2000, 18 years of war had claimed the lives of more than 64,000, mostly civilians.





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7 nights 8 days Hill Capital / Tea Plantations / Mountains / Yala Wild Life Safari
Reception on arrival at the Air Port and Transfer to Hotel in Colombo. (Palm Beach Hotel(2*), Mt.Lavinia - Grand Oriental Hotel (3*), Colombo – Galadari Hotel( 5*), Colombo) Colombo / Pinnawela / Kandy After break fast departure to Kandy the hill capital of ...
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14 Nights 15 days – Colombo / Ancient Cities / Hill Capital / Mountains / Yala Wild Life Safari / Be
Airport / Colombo or Mt.Lavinia Reception on arrival and transfer to Hotel at Colombo. Dinner and overnight. (Palm Beach Hotel(2*), Mt.Lavinia - Grand Oriental Hotel (3*), Colombo – Galadari Hotel( 5*), Colombo) Colombo / Anuradhapura or Kandalama After b'fa ...
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7 nights & 8 days) Colombo / Ancient Cities / Hill Capital / Mountains / Yala Wild Life Safari /
Airport / Colombo Reception on arrival and transfer to Hotel at Colombo/Mt.Lavinia. Dinner and overnight.(Palm Beach Hotel(2*), Mt.Lavinia - Grand Oriental Hotel (3*), Colombo – Galadari Hotel( 5*), Colombo) Colombo / Dambulla After breakfast proceed to Damb ...
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Colombo / Ancient Cities / Hill Capital / Mountains / Uda Walawe Wild Life Safari / Beach resort
Airport / Colombo or Mt.Lavinia Reception on arrival and transfer to Hotel at Colombo. Dinner and overnight. (Palm Beach Hotel(2*), Mt.Lavinia - Grand Oriental Hotel (3*), Colombo – Galadari Hotel( 5*), Colombo) Colombo / Dambulla After breakfast proceed to ...
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