Insight Guides: Sri Lanka

Insight Guides This fully updated new edition features illuminating text written by Sri Lanka"s expert, local writers, alongside inspiring full-colour photography, including outstanding double page spreads. The top attractions are highlighted to help you plan your trip priorities, whether they be to explore Kandy, Sri Lanka"s cultural capital, or the Elephant Orphanage at Pinnawela. A brand new "Editor"s Choice" section reveals the author"s inside take on quirky and interesting things see and to do, including the best locations to see the island"s wildlife and stunning scenery. "History" and "Features" sections provide an insightful background to the country"s rich and interesting heritage, as well as its current culture. An in-depth "Places" section covers the entire country, region by region, with all the principal sites such as Polonnaruwa and Anuradhapura cross-referenced by number to accompanying full-colour maps. Additional maps inside the front and back covers enable instant orientation and...