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Sri Lanka is a popular tourist destination. Tourism is a key industry that attracts international tourists yearly. Foreigners visit Sri Lanka to see nature, wildlife, historical monuments, and indigenous culture. In 2018, tourist arrivals peaked at 2.5 million, who spent a total of US$5.6 billion in the country.
Religious buildings and structures in Central Province, Sri Lanka (6 C) Pages in category "Tourist attractions in Central Province, Sri Lanka" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Sri Lanka ratified the convention on 6 June 1980. [3] As of 2022, Sri Lanka has eight sites on the list. The first three sites, the Ancient City of Polonnaruwa, the Ancient City of Sigiriya, and the Sacred City of Anuradhapura, were listed in 1982. The most recent site, the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka, was listed in 2010
The original name of the area was Maha Eliya Thenna (මහ එළිය තැන්න - "great open plain"). But in the British period the plains were renamed after Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, the British governor of Ceylon from 1831 to 1837, who travelled to the area to meet the Ratemahatmaya of Sabaragamuwa in 1836, [4] in 1834 by Lt William Fisher of the 78th Regiment and Lt. Albert Watson ...
Mountaineering and other types of adventure tourism and ecotourism are important attractions for visitors. The world heritage site Lumbini , birthplace of Gautama Buddha, is located in southern Nepal, and there are other important religious pilgrimage sites throughout the country.
There are number of theories as to the origin of the shrine. According to Heinz Bechert [7] and Paul Younger, [8] the mode of veneration and rituals connected with Kataragama deviyo is a survival of indigenous Vedda mode of veneration that preceded the arrival of Buddhist and Indo-Aryan cultural influences from North India in Sri Lanka in the last centuries BCE, although Hindus, Buddhists and ...