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Write An Essay About Sri Lanka

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Colombo, Sri Lanka
In our armchair travels we’ve been traveling about Sri Lanka. Now we have arrived in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. In history it was a port on ancient east-west trade routes and has been ruled by the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British. It is a city with a mixture of colonial buildings, high-rises and shopping malls.

Golf lovers will especially like the Royal Colombo Golf Club, right in the heart of the city. However even if you don’t play golf you will enjoy it here since it is a tranquil place where you can watch others tee off and relax in the natural surroundings. The scenic landscape has some rare species of flora and fauna. At one time this was a 96 acre farm. It was founded more than 130 years ago and is the second oldest Royal Golf Club located outside of the U.K. In the club house you can find an extensive array of historic golf memorabilia.

As you enter The National Museum you’ll find a large stone Buddha smiling at you dating from the 9th century. Here you can see displays in galleries dating back to 1877 of all kinds of art, carvings and statuary from Sri Lanka’s past, as well as swords, guns and other paraphernalia from the colonial period. There are also impressive 19th century reproductions of English paintings of Sri Lanka and an amazing collection of antique demon …show more content…

At the time that the church was built this area was a wilderness beyond the city walls. When Europeans mistook roaming jackals for wolves the area became known as Wolf’s Dale or Wolvendaal in Dutch. The church was built in the form of a Greek cross, with walls 1.5m thick. The real treasure here is the Dutch furniture. Dutch governors has a special pew created with elegant carved ebony chairs. The workmanship on the wooden pulpit, baptismal font and lectern is just as impressive. The stone floor includes the elaborate tombstones of long-forgotten Dutch governors and

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