Impressions

Sri Lanka - shining beautiful country - is named the former Ceylon since 1972. With only 66000 km² not big, but there is unbelievable much more to see and to discover:

The ancient towns of kings Annuradhapura and Pollonaruwa
The Rock Fort of Sigiriya and the Cave Temple of Dambullah
The Tooth Temple of Kandy and the temple dancers
The Highland with its tea plantations
The Adam's Peak, pilgrim place of 4 religions
The elephant wise house in Pinnawela
The pilgrim place Kataragama and the Yala National Park
The wonderful bathing beaches, the flora and the fauna.

only to name a part of it. Simply let take the following pictures in you:

Landscape and culture:

Flora and Fauna:

Sunsets above the Indian Ocean:

Landscapes:

Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin

Flying time:
London-Colombo ca. 11 hours

Time Zone:
The local time of Sri Lanka is calculated from the Greenwich Mean Time plus 5,5 hours.
That means, Sri Lanka local time is European winter time plus 4,5 hours, European summer time plus 3,5 hours.

Climate:
Sri Lanka possess a varied climate in spite of its relative small size.
Dry areas for example in the North and South-East change with subtropical areas in the Coast Regions.
At the Highland within the Central Region, rules European climate, ever high the cooler it will be.
For example, in Nuwara Eliya, laying at 1890m height, there is the danger of frost during the night.
In the coast-regions the average temperature measure is 26-32°C.
The water temperature of the Indian Ocean behaves to 27°C, commonly all of the year.
The isle has two seasons - dry and rainy season, where the northeast area stands exactly in opposite to the southwest area.
The Southwest Monsoon brings rainfalls to the south and west between may and september.
The Northeast Monsoon supplies the north and east between december and february with rainfalls.
Even while monsoon season the sun is shining daily, rain is falling mostly in the afternoon or evening.
In october or november there is the possibility of rain and thunderstorm all over the isle.
Often the rain is even a welcome cooling.
Longtime it takes generally not, as suddenly the rain had begin, as soon it stops mostly,
and the sun is shining as before...

The actual weather forecast:

Visa:
Members of the EU are getting generally at the entry of Sri Lanka a Visa of 30 days.
This Visa can't be now extended at the Office of Immigration in Colombo up to 3 month!!!
At the respective embassies of Sri Lanka inside the EU the Visa must be applied in advance!

Further information about Sri Lanka you can find also at the sides of Sri Lanka Tourist Board.

Currency in Sri Lanka is the Sri Lanka Rupee, informations about the actual exchanche rates here at Yahoo.