Advice on Diving in Sri Lanka

... and for millennia has been at the crossroads of historic shipping lanes, the Silk Road and other trade routes. Besides a rich cultural tapestry, the country also has many wildlife reserves, is famous for its elephants as well as its culinary delights and tea plantations. Tropical waters surround the nearly 1600km / 1000 miles of coastline, and are a home to an incredible range of marine life from the largest mammal on earth, the blue whale, to the tiny the tiny sea slug. Sri Lanka is one of the few places in the world to see blue whales, with Mirissa in the South and Trincomalee as incre...