Sri lanka is a country of incredible natural beauty filled with striking manmade structures and sites of cultural significance tropical plants and mesmerising wildlife abound the majestic elephants of habarana delight locals and tourists alike sigiriyas fortress in the sky and the sacred tooth relic of buddha punctuate the lush green landscape that is filled with delicious heady aromas and of course there is tea treasured by sri lankans as a buoyant commodity and embraced by the british