Sri Lanka: Natural beauty and unresolved tension
The view from the path to Little Adam's Peak in Ella My time in Sri Lanka is now over and I am back in South India. I still haven't fully digested my experience and I find it difficult to compare to the earlier stages of my journey or the one beginning now. Perhaps the reason is that India, and especially its Southern part, is, after all, very similar in culture and also in terms of landscape. As a result, Sri Lanka somehow doesn't feel like a separate experience. It is inevitable to compare the island country with its bigger northern neighbour because of their inseparable history: the constant Indian invasions in the past, the shared religions, similar experience of colonialism, and recently also the importance of India in Sri Lanka’s politics and economy. In Sri Lanka I couldn’t help comparing it to India, and now in India I will be constantly reminded of ‘Lanka’. I began my Sri Lankan trip in the company of my friends Michal, Agnes and Paula. We enjoyed the so