Language

Essential Information For Sri Lanka

Sinhala and Tamil are the official languages of Sri Lanka, but English is widely spoken and understood in the main tourist centres and major towns and cities though not by many people in rural areas. German, French and Italian as well as a little Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese and Russian are also spoken in some tourist areas.

“Nothing was too much trouble for Ravi P [guide], who helped us amend our programme as we went along. In part this was because we were perhaps a bit too ambitious and in part because of the heat.”

McCallum family