Why Sri Lanka?
As we live here we find ourselves biased. Is it the easy, live and let live, atmosphere?
Is it because of the islands unspoilt beauty or the smiling faces of its friendly people?
Is it because, uniquely in Asia, we foreigners can and do live here legally, peacefully and happily in our own homes?
Is it that the Island still offers incredible opportunities to acquire un-spoilt land on the beach, in the jungle, by lakes, in the hills and in tea estates
Ironically every disadvantage one can think of also works in favour of this Island. The troubles in the North and East, while holding back progress in the Island in general, by the same token, keep it un-spoilt by the ravages of mass tourism. Making the calm easy pleasant and stylish life style available here an undiscovered secret.
Perhaps James Emerson Tennent put it best way back in 1860….
‘The Brahmans designated it by the epithet of "the resplendent," and in their dreamy rhapsodies extolled it as the region of mystery and sublimity 1 ; the Buddhist poets gracefully apostrophised it as "a pearl upon the brow of India;" the Chinese knew it as the "island of jewels;" the Greeks as the "land of the hyacinth and the ruby;" the Mahometans, in the intensity of their delight, assigned it to the exiled parents of mankind as a new elysium to console them for the loss of Paradise; and the early navigators of Europe, as they returned dazzled with its gems, and laden with its costly spices, propagated the fable that far to seaward the very breeze that blew from it was redolent of perfume. 2 In later and less imaginative times, Ceylon has still maintained the renown of its attractions, and exhibits in all its varied charms "the highest conceivable development of Indian nature."
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