Colombo is the capital of the Western Province of Sri Lanka, one of nine Provinces in Sri Lanka that have existed since the 19th century. However, they were only given legal status in 1987 when the constitution established provincial councils.
Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon and had Portuguese influence from around 1500, though its rich history goes back as far back as 500,000 years. It is now the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. It is an island just off southern India in the Indian Ocean, separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It lies southwest of the Bay of Bengal and southeast of the Arabian Sea. Cruise routes to India and South Africa might stop here, just as a world cruise might. The Seven Seas Marina normally has it on its route around March.
Visit the historic rock fortress of Sigiriya and explore the large cave temple complex of Dambulla where there is ancient rock art and Buddha images. Or, spend some time feeding and playing with baby elephants in the Pinnawala elephant orphanage. A tour to that may also include a visit to the Royal Botanical Gardens of Peradeniya. There is also the historic royal palace complex of Kandy, where the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is housed. Have a look, you will be spoiled for choice.
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We list these not to sell you the tours, though Get Your Guide do have many excellent private guides and tour options, but, reading through what the locals offer you at a destination, reveals what is there. Local tours (allow time to load) as shown by GET YOUR GUIDE. Always remember a ship tour offers the protection of waiting for the trip to return if it is running late.
I dig into these memories and add research when writing the cruise novels. I am currently arriving, in my head, in Colombo. The team have left Phuket. This cruise may be based on a similar one that you might take. There has already been an unexpected loss of life and the investigators have purpose during a mission to try and rescue money still trapped on a ship from book one in the series Cruise Ship Heist. In this novel, book seven in the series, Cruise Ship Murder Reunion, the CSCI team have already met up with a school reunion and their plans to take the money off the ship in Mumbai are already under threat. All the novels can be read as stand alone books, and some love to start a series a way through because the writing inevitable gets better. However, after six books, I revisited the novels and produced second drafts so they are all feel like they have the experience of half a dozen books, because they do. This is the planned route.
Singapore School Reunion meets at Raffle day 1
- MIAMI Agents morn loss in Miami day 1
- Singapore School Reunion meets at Raffle day 1
- At sea agents arrive hotel Penang day 2
- Penang Agents join ship Malaysia day 3
- Phuket Thailand day 4
- At sea day 5
- At sea day 6
- Hambantota Sri Lanka day 7
- Columbo Sri Lanka day 8
- Cochin India day 9
- Cochin India day 10
- At sea day 11
- Mumbai India day 12
