Srilanka (Indian Ocean )

Sri Lanka is a place where history seems to fade into the mist of legend.

Is not Adam’s Peak said to be the very place where Adam set foot on earth, having been sent out of heaven?

Isn’t that his footprint squarely on top of the mountain to prove it? Or is it the Buddha’s footprint on Sri Pada?

And isn’t Adam’s Bridge (the chain of islands linking Sri Lanka to India) the very series of stepping stones Rama, aided by his faithful ally, the monkey god Hanuman, stepped across in his mission to rescue Sita from the clutches of the Rawana,King of Lanka, in the epic Ramayana.

Sri Lanka has an abundance of traditional arts and crafts. These goods are manufactured using age-old techniques, tools and natural indigenous materials either by dedicated crafts men in their abode or occassionally at rural craft centres considered cottage industries.