Travel tips in Sri Lanka-Lao

Sri Lanka traveling

• Sri Lanka has attracted travelers for centuries. Marco Polo delineated it as the finest island of its size in the world. Balanced just above the Equator amid the balmy waters of the Indian Ocean, the island’s legendary fame for natural beauty and plenty has influenced an almost magical regard even in those who have never visited the place.
• Romantically inclined geographers, poring over maps of the island, compared its outline to a teardrop falling from the tip of India or to the shape of a pearl (the less softhearted Dutch likened it to a leg of ham), while even the name given to the island by early Arab traders – Serendib – gave rise to the English word “serendipity”.

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• Marco Polo’s bold claim still holds true. Sri Lanka packs an extraordinary variety of places to visit within its modest physical dimensions, and few islands of comparable size can boast a natural environment of such beauty and diversity. Sri Lanka boasts more than two thousand years of recorded history, and the noteworthy achievements of the early Sinhalese civilization can still be seen in the continuation of ruined cities and great religious monuments that litter the northern plains.
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  The glories of this early Buddhist civilization continue to provide a benchmark of national identity for the island’s Sinhalese population, while Sri Lanka’s historic role as the world’s oldest stronghold of Theravada Buddhism lends it a unique cultural identity that permeates life at every level. There’s more to Sri Lanka than just Buddhists, however.
• The island’s geographical position at one of the most important staging posts of Indian Ocean trade laid it open to a uniquely wide range of influences, as generations of Malay, Arab, Portuguese, Dutch and British settlers subtly transformed its culture, architecture and cuisine, while the long-established Tamil population in the north have established a vibrant Hindu culture that owes more to India than to the Sinhalese south.
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  However, this very diversity that has long threatened to tear the country apart. But now, The island is experiencing peace for the first time in a generation, and although the physical, political and human scars of war remain raw in many places, most Sri Lankans are now once again looking to the future with secured optimism.

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Best time to visit Laos

The best time to visit Laos depends on your preferences.

• Do you plan to travel Laos, You should know: having two distinct weather seasons in Laos. Laos’s weather system is relatively simple compared with much of Asia; including a dry season (October to late April) and a rainy season (May to late September).
• Within each season there are transformation in temperature, with the dry months causing to the wet season (March and April) and the early rainy season (May and June) usually being the hottest of the year.

Laos weather summary

The dry season from November to April has almost no rain and temperatures are more moderate. The rainy season from May to October is marked by tropical heavy rains in the afternoon, though some travelers prefer to visit Laos at this time, when fewer tourists come and prices are markedly lower.

Rainy season

• The early months of the rainy season (May to July) remain very hot and rainfall is often short lived, while in the latter months (late July to September) the rains trend to get more constant and can be heavy at times. Especially in southern of the country. Further north and in Luang Prabang, rainfall trends to be lighter and you can often expect rain during the night or mornings with some relatively clear afternoons. Across Laos, throughout the rainy season, daytime temperatures average around 29°C in the lowlands and 23°C in the mountain valleys.
• Temperatures throughout the country are also greatly effected by height with much of the country at a level that degrees the country’s average temperatures by several degrees °C. As a general rule north, central and eastern regions are at a higher area than those in the south, where at its lowest, in the Mekong River valley, humidity is higher and temperatures in exuberancy of 35°C are not uncommon between March and April.
• Throughout the country in all but the hottest months is often advisable to have a jumper or fleece for the evenings, when there is a tendency for it to get quite cool.

Laos landscape

 

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