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Travel to Sri Lanka travel
With expansive sandy beaches, wildlife safari and underwater adventures, Sri Lanka is an wonderful holiday destination for people of all tastes and preferences. Never-ending beaches, ageless ruins, friendly people, loads of elephants, rolling surf, economical prices, enjoyable trains, renowned tea and tasty food make Sri Lanka appealing. If you are scheduling to go somewhere, Sri Lanka should be your pick among the best destinations to travel around the earth. Sri Lanka is chock-full with world heritage sites that you should make time to visit if possible. You'll go wild for the food, which has been formed by its vibrant historical and cultural past.
Diving in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is a wonderful dive destination. The waters of Sri Lanka are home to an incredible variety of marine creatures from huge blue whales all the way through to small nudibranch. Sri Lanka has loads of great sites to discover including great wreck dives which are scattered off the coast. Many of the wrecks are covered in marine life, soft corals, macro critters and huge aggregations of schooling fish. Barracuda Reef is a great dive site and it never disappoints. The reef provides shelter for a wide range of marine creatures including lionfish, rays and nudibranch. Situated off the coast of Mount Lavinia near Colombo, this is a famous dive site.
Diving regions in Sri Lanka (3)
Great Basses Reef
A remote offshore reef about 12 km off Sri Lanka's south coast, marked by a historic lighthouse and famous for the 18th-century Great Basses shipwreck.
Trincomalee
A northeast coastal region around Sri Lanka's Trincomalee natural harbour, combining historic shipwrecks, coral reefs, and offshore whale encounters.
