Country Info
- Colombo
- Capital
- Sri Lanka Rupee (LKR)
- Currency
- 19,408,635
- Population
- LK
- Country Code
Sri Lanka Slideshow
Top Hotels in Sri Lanka
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Isolabella Ayurvedic Hotel Dikwella
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Talalla Retreat Matara
61 reviews -
Palm Village Colombo
64 reviews -
Wunderbar Beach Club Hotel Bentota
159 reviews
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Catamaran Beach Hotel Negombo
10 reviews -
Golden Star Beach Hotel Negombo
68 reviews -
Drifters Hotel and Beach Restaurant Hikkaduwa
99 reviews -
Morgan's Jaffna
3 reviews
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The Mansion Kandy
142 reviews
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Tangalla Bay Hotel
39 reviews
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Hotel Blue Sapphire Kaluwamodara
8 reviews
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Aquarius Sports Resort Marawila
2 reviews
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Dickwella Village Dikwella
9 reviews
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Surya Lanka Matara
2 reviews
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Club Palm Garden Hotel Colombo
203 reviews
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Susantha's Bentota
31 reviews
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The Palace Negombo
2 reviews
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Hikkaduwa Beach Hotel
25 reviews
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Nature Lanka Health Resort Tangalla
11 reviews
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Plantation Hotel Kitulgala
22 reviews
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Sanmali Beach Hotel Marawila
17 reviews
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Flower Garden Hotel Unawatuna
245 reviews
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Hotel Omega Inn Wellawatta
11 reviews
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Aida Ayurveda & Holistic Health Resort Bentota
19 reviews
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Bentota Beach Club
5 reviews
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Paradise Beach Hotel Negombo
294 reviews
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Nippon Villa Beach Resort Hikkaduwa
22 reviews
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Kandy View Hotel
165 reviews
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Hotel Sudu Araliya Polonnaruwa
39 reviews
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Nilaveli Beach Hotel Trincomalee
72 reviews
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Alpine Hotel Nuwara Eliya
33 reviews
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Peacock Beach Hotel Yala National Park
40 reviews
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Neptune-Bay Hotel Unawatuna
23 reviews
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The Palms Hotel Beruwala
136 reviews
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Hotel Renuka Colombo
109 reviews
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Hotel Sea Garden Negombo
15 reviews
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Ocean View Cottage Hikkaduwa
31 reviews
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LTI Sinbad Kalutara
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Polonnaruwa Resthouse
27 reviews -
Berjaya Mount Royal Mount Lavinia
59 reviews
Sri Lanka
Travel Blogs from Sri Lanka
Head and shoulders, knees and toes
This is a top pick! Friday has been and gone-it's scary how quickly this week has gone! At preschool their main activity was drawing a house with flowers, a coconut tree and a person. artistic abilities range but there was one girl in particular who i think did an ...
How do you stop?
This is a top pick! Let's start with the absolute highlight ever of out time in Sri Lanka….WE HAD OUR FIRST TUT TUT LESSON!! For those of you who don’t know what these are, they are like motorised Rickshaws and are the common mode of transport. We had decided ...
The weekend has been and gone
This is a top pick! It's Sunday night so my 1st weekend in Sri Lanka is over. As always the weekend has gone very fast! We didn't venture outside of Hambantota - plenty of weekends to explore plus 2weeks in August when the school is closed. Saturday was a pretty relaxing ...
Tick tock...
This is a top pick! ... truly ticking down, we have effectively just spent our last weekend as we know it! Next weekend we are in Colombo to see England play Sri Lanka at cricket, then the following weekend the team is over and after that we'll be on a plane! I have to say we ...
Temple of the Tooth
This is a top pick! ... . Like avid collectors we had to tick off the continents and countries we had yet to explore. Jane had the opportunity to visit Sri Lanka as a stop on her journey home. The elections were due and a prominent figure in the Tamil tigers had recently been ...
Cricket here we come
This is a top pick! ... , before the team arrives. It's a surprise as to what to expect so we'll just have to wait and see! After that it's off to the big smoke ie Colombo to watch England play Sri Lanka in cricket, or if it bores me to tears, a weekend of ...
Sri Lanka's Primeval Rainforest
This is a top pick! ... . New England has its golden-brown blueberry pancakes topped with melted creamery butter and 100% maple syrup (Aunt Jemima? Forget it.). Sri Lanka has its treacle and curd. Treacle is a rich brown. Poured on fresh curd and inserted into your mouth, ...
Let's talk about cricket
This is a top pick! ... in English very well when it comes to cricket. I really should start to take an interest as we're going to watch England v Sri Lanka in October. We're traveling up to Colombo tomorrow night in preparation of a day trip to Kandy on Wednesday. ...
I arrest you in the name of the law....
This is a top pick! So, yesterday we spent the morning at Tangalle Prison, where the prisoners have just finished building a small Christian Chapel that was sponsored by Smile. The thing that struck us most was the fact that 80% of the prisoners are actually innocent when ...
Tree
This is a top pick! Today I learnt alongside the preschool children - I can now write "tree" in Sinhala! You never know when that's going to come in handy! It's such an artistic language - I don't know how people write so quickly. There was a parent/teacher ...
Pot Luck
This is a top pick! ... " today. For some reason, they kept mixing up fish and sheep - there must be some strange looking fish saying "baa" in Sri Lanka! I stuck to animals I could vaguely draw - fish, sheep, cow, duck, pig and then the problem came with horse!! Fortunately ...
Lost in Antiquity
This is a top pick! DAMBULLA, SIGIRIYA,AND POLONNARUWA We made our way from the spectacular Knuckles Range to the ancient city of Polonnaruwa, stopping along the way to see Dambulla and Sigiriya. The Dambulla cave temples are about 2,000 years old and contain hundreds ...
Adam's Peak
This is a top pick! ... woke at 2 am to have some tea before beginning our hike. Adam's Peak, also known as Sri Pada, has been one of Sri Lanka's most important religious pilgrimage sites for over a thousand years. It is known to Christians as the place on earth where Adam ...
Exploring the Cloud Forests
This is a top pick! ... , with many of them converted to tea plantations and dairies. But in the rugged terrain around the train route, the Sri Lanka Rhododendron bloomed a bright red amongst the dark green Nillu shrubs and small gnarled trees. In these cloud forests I ...
Off we go again
This is a top pick! Today we are up at 8am and this place has gone mental. There are people sat out side our room door and we manage to squeeze our selves out for breakfast. The wedding party is big and people are still arriving. Didn't see the bride or groom don't think ...
Here comes the bride
This is a top pick! ... of the family "hand over" their daughter to the groom's family and then leave. There are still quite a few arranged marriages in Sri Lanka but I don't think this was because they had been going out for 10years! Also he is Christian and she is Buddhist. ...
Co-limbo
This is a top pick! COLOMBO When we arrived in Colombo on Monday night, it became apparent that we were on our own. Our ride never showed up at the airport, and our hotel accommodations fell through as well. We quickly realized that communication had again failed; ...
Let the quiz begin
This is a top pick! ... a sheet of paper and they are content. I have decided tomorrow is going to be the day that "the birdie song" comes to Sri Lanka. That should be interesting - nothing like bringing a bit of embarrassing culture to a foreign country. I wonder how long ...
Friday AGAIN!!
This is a top pick! I don't know where this week has gone!! Today we had thunder and lightning. well the lighntening was in the early hours of the morning. it was amazing-literally lit up the whole room. and as i've come to realise, after rain, the weird and wonderful ...
Sri Lanka...Again
This is a top pick! ... nine months. They graciously hosted us in their home outside of the city, where we ended up staying for a few days. This trip to Sri Lanka began on a positive note. The cloud of Mefloquin had been lifted (we quit taking it at the end of our last trip ...
A Family Profile
This is a top pick! KIRINDA: Interview with a Local Family When the December 26th tsunami struck, Ansar was lounging outside his house, chatting with friends and enjoying the sunny morning. When a neighbor began to shout "Water is coming!", Ansar and his friends ...
The wet stuff
This is a top pick! Today I saw something I didn't think I would see until I landed back on Northern Irish soil.....yes it rained! It only lasted for 5minutes and it was still roasting, but I didn't expect to see any of the wet stuff! O well I'm sure it did the ground ...
Southern Devastation
This is a top pick! ... we felt that we'd had enough, and were prepared to leave Colombo as soon as possible. We had one final meeting with the YMCA Sri Lanka and were ready to move on. Then we had lunch with Ashfaque. Timing is everything. Ashfaque, with whom we had been ...
not so sweet Kandy
This is a top pick! We arrive in Kandy about 1pm and check in to our hotel. It's the nicest so far but way out of the centre with a long steep up hill climb; shouldn't we be used to this by now? Our driver says he is leaving now. We are not happy as we were told we had him ...
Turns out, next week is Father's day....
This is a top pick! ... of having to take the public transport. Believe me, if you're looking to increase you're prayer life, jump on a bus in Sri Lanka! After getting the hearing aid fixed and the mobile phone bought, we headed out to a place called Cinnamon Gardens ...
Name the creature
This is a top pick! Yesterday morning we called into the market to satisfy my addiction to papaya! I don't know why I haven't noticed the market before in the past 15weeks! We had gone to the Sunday market a few weeks ago but I thought yesterdays was better as it had fruits ...
In the jungle, the Kandy jungle
This is a top pick! (following on the title) there's Lion beer tonight (a win away)! Friday December 12th Sri Lanka vs England, Second Test, Day 3 Much of the same today (ie sitting in the sun, drinking beer and singing). The Asgiriya Cricket Stadium in Kandy is ...
The wheels on the bus
This is a top pick! Today in preschool we completed "the wheels on the bus"! So they now know "if you're happy (all 7 verses!!), "5 little monkeys" and "the wheels on the bus". Their favourite English word at the moment seems to be "crocodile". Every morning when I read to ...
A taste of Belfast
This is a top pick! ... with music and dancing. Don't really know what to expect, but looking forward to it as I'll be able to see some Sri Lankan culture! It's another Pot Luck dinner tonight so I'm bringing along the fine delicacy of Northern Irish Champ! Hopefully ...
I finally did it!!
This is a top pick! I left Hambantota at 4am on Saturday morning. Was a very early start but you don't really notice the journey at that time as you sleep for the first few hours. I travelled up with the teachers and their families. The main reason why they came was to ...