10 SRI LANKAN SPECIALTIES
1. Tea Once you drink Ceylon Tea, the local brew, you may never go back to coffee.
2. Buddhas Most Sri Lankans are Buddhist and ornate temples dot the country.
3. Massage Sri Lanka, like neighbouring Thailand, is a major wellness destination and cheap, too.
4. Animals Watch your bags for cheeky monkeys and stray dogs!
5. Men As in India, menfolk walk arm-inarm in a show of bromance not, sadly, gay love.
6. Cricket Sri Lanka is obsessed with this very English game, a true colonial hangover.
7. Fruit From jackfruit to wood apples to starfruit, this is a tropical fruit lover’s juicy paradise.
8. Transport The tuk-tuk is alive and thriving across the island and the cheapest way to get around.
9. Shopping Spend your rupees on wood carvings, leather goods, gemstones, spices and incense.
10. Ayobowan This traditional greeting, palms clasped together, means “may you enjoy long life”.