SRI LANKA GUIDE: COLOMBO TO GALLE : SPIRIT OF PLACE

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SRI LANKA GUIDE: COLOMBO TO GALLE : SPIRIT OF PLAC...

Sri Lanka is a place where you can be between a visitor, a tourist and a traveler all at the same time. It’s a very romantic country: romance being a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love; it’s a place to be romantic with yourself. You stay in one spot, to soak up its spirit—and what a spirit it is. The world changes very fast and Sri Lanka truly, truly is a beautiful, rare place – it has this magic of ruins, beaches, culture. And true spirit.

Lawrence Durrell writes in Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel:
“It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose; you will hear the whispered message, for all landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper. 'I am watching you -- are you watching yourself in me?' Most travelers hurry too much...the great thing is to try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly – but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling...you can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle, you'll be there.”

Travel to Sri Lanka, and you’ll get this sprit. It’s inescapable.

April 2013