Tuesday, November 18, 2014












Mannar  formerly spelled Manar,  Mannar District,Northern Province, Sri Lanka, governed by an Urban Council. It is located on  Gulf of Mannar. It is home to the historic Ketheeswaram temple.
Mannar is known for its baobab trees and for its fort, built by the Portuguese in 1560 and taken by the Dutch in 1658 and rebuilt; its ramparts and bastions are intact, though the interior is largely destroyed. Formerly the town was renowned as a center of pearl fishing, mentioned in the 2nd-century CE Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.Visually, the modern town is dominated by its Hindu temples, mosques and churches.

Ketheeswaram temple.


baobab tree

 mannar fort






If golden beaches, rising waves, misty mountains, mighty elephants, stealthy leopards, giant whales, a majestic past, lovely tea and warm smiles could sum up a country, that would be Sri Lanka.
With many sites and scenes bottled up in to a small island, a traveller could be riding the waves in the dawn and admiring the green carpeted mountains by dusk. Travel destinations in Sri Lanka provide an array of holiday experience from sun kissed beach holidays to a marathon of wildlife watching, adrenaline pumping adventure sports and pilgrimage to some of the oldest cities in the world.
The smiles and hospitality of Sri Lanka id world famous and so are its spicy food, exotic fruits and array of sweetmeats found nowhere in the world. With so many cultures living next to each other life in Sri Lanka continues among a series of festivities throughout the year, an ideal recipe for fun and leisure.
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in the northern Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia.


  1. Capitals: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Colombo
  2. Dialing code: +94
  3. President: Mahinda Rajapaksa
  4. Prime minister: D. M. Jayaratne
  5. Official languages: Sinhala, Tamil

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