Sri Lanka

Treasure island

A teardrop-shaped island 30-miles from India, Sri Lanka is where the village and beach life of today stands shoulder to shoulder with 2,500 years of recorded history. The island is home to no fewer than seven World Heritage Sites which makes it one of the richest treasure troves of natural and man-made wonders in the world. And when you learn that this is also the oldest continually Buddhist country on earth, it's little wonder that such an insignificant dot in the ocean still holds the international traveller in thrall.