Hot air ballooning is becoming a popular adventure sport in Sri Lanka. The third hot air balloon festival will be held on 21st of March to 4th April 2008. This festival is facilitated by the Ministry of Tourism Sri Lanka and organized by the Ceylon Airship and Ballooning Club of Sri Lanka. It is expected [...]
It is now believed that Sri Lnka is blessed with the black gold – the most influncial natural resource in the world- OIL.The mannar basin has been the identified reigon for this.It will be such a moral boost to the SrI lankan economy.We could one day rise form the current sithuation & stand by our [...]
Sri Lanka has an yaer round beach fronts.Depending on the two monsoons we are blessed to operatethe southern beaches from November to April & the eastern beaches from April to November.The beaches in the East coast are spectaculaar.You find the white sands reminding the Maldives.The heavy tourist traffic which kept the Eastern beaches bussy took [...]
The closing date for the first ever presidential awards for Travel and Tourism Excellence will be on the 28th of November. The ceremony is scheduled to be held on the 18th of December in Colombo. The mission behind the presidential awards for Travel and Tourism 2007 is to identify and encourage the stakeholders of the [...]
From the beginning of the site development we were anxious to start a complete travel guide to Sri Lanka. Last week we were able to go live with our travel guide which will eventually help travelers to get an idea of this beautiful island. We have taken lot of effort to make this travel guide [...]
The world famous Air tel will be starting their operations soon in Sri Lanka. This company is a giant in the telecommunication industry & made a complete revolution in India.This will make a big difference in the fast growing Telecommunication industry.Dialog GSM being the trend setters so far will face a new challenge.It will be [...]
Its going to be a pretty interesting day the 19 of November 2007.Sr Lankan government will hold the voting for the anuual budget proposals.Amids a number of crossovers of MPs the political situation seems to be a bit tense.God knows who would change their minds last minute.For most of the people this reminds the last [...]
TGIF ! “Thank god its Friday”, I was waiting from last Monday to take a break from all the hard work and to have a relaxing weekend. So finally it’s Friday! I was planning to visit Kandy or Kataragama as I did not have time to go anywhere with my work. Then I thought Kataragama [...]
The diverse nature of ethnic groups in Sri lanka makes it a happening place throughout the year. So many festivals and religious events are lined up every year. Among them celebrations of the December 31st takes an important place . Every year New Year’s Eve is celebrated with dinner dances, musical shows and religious ceremonies [...]
We are pleased to announce you about the travel blog of goldensrilanka.com(www.goldensrilanka.com/blog) . After one month of hardworking we finally managed to make it live. We hope to update this very frequently with the latest travel related information, articles, travel tips, beautiful places and cheap holiday packages to Sri Lanka. We also like to get [...]