Despite small sizes and the neighbourhood with such competitor on attraction of tourists as India , Sri Lanka became the popular tourist country. Tourists are involved with a rich palette of paints of flora of island, beautiful cataracts, picturesque mounts, 180-metre rock Sigirija in 150 km to the northeast from Colombo with ancient rock paintings and ruins of a palace of V century, numerous Buddhist relics-dagoby, search and machining of jewels, pearl extraction, etc. Beauty of the nature of Sri Lanka knocks imagination of each attent island. In a necklace of white reefs the island looks a pearl on a dark blue velvet of Indian ocean. Not casually great Indian poet and thinker Rabindranat Tagore has named Sri Lanka a pearl in Indian ocean, and And. The Item Chekhov who have attent island in the beginning of the XX-th century, - a heavenly spot.
