Colombo’s busiest bazaar district, a maze of market streets around the striking red-and-white Jami Ul-Alfar Mosque.
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Nuwara Eliya’s lakeside park, with boat rides, pony rides and walking paths, popular with local families.
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Sri Lanka’s oldest and largest museum, in a grand colonial building in Colombo 7, home to the throne of the Kandyan kings.
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One of the world’s great train rides, through tea plantations, tunnels and mountains. In 2026 it runs between Nanu Oya and Ella.
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Jaffna’s grandest Hindu temple, with a golden gopuram, daily pujas and a huge annual festival.
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Mirissa’s two famous viewpoints: a palm-covered headland and a little rock island off the beach.
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Sri Lanka’s most famous surf, with the long right-hander at Main Point and gentler waves at Whiskey Point and Baby Point.
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The 5th-century Lion Rock fortress, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with frescoes, a mirror wall and summit palace ruins.
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Five painted caves filled with Buddha statues, a UNESCO World Heritage Site high on a rock above Dambulla.
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A hidden cove and a hilltop peace pagoda on the Rumassala headland near Unawatuna.
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A protected marine national park off Nilaveli, with coral reefs, reef sharks and turtles in clear water.
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The south coast’s iconic stilt fishermen, perched on poles above the surf between Koggala and Ahangama.
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