"The Island of Sri Lanka is a small universe containing as many variations of culture, scenery and climate as some countries a dozen times her size. Every point on the island can be reached with just a few hours travel by car, enabling even the short-term visitor to experience many of island's diversities." - Arthur C. The equator is arriving again. We are within eight degrees of it. Dear me, it is beautiful! And most sumptuously tropical, as to character of foliage and opulence of it. "What though the spicy breezes blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle" - an eloquent line, an incomparable line; it says little, but conveys whole libraries of sentiment, and Oriental charm and mystery, and tropic deliciousness - a line that quivers and tingles with a thousand unexpressed and inexpressible things, things that haunt one and find no articulate voice . . . . Colombo, the capital. An Oriental town, most manifestly; and fascinating." - Mark Twain, when his ship reached Ceylon.
“Ceylon is the cradle of human race because everybody there looks an original.” - George Bernard Shaw
"Zeilam is a noble island, 3000 miles in circumference, producing gems, and cinnamon in great abundance.” - Nicolo Di Conti of Venice
