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Show H6 TheSalt Lake Tribune TRAVEL Sri Lanka: Tourism Booms, Despite Troubles concentrated on Sri Lanka oflate because they viewit as an opportunity in war tourism. This translates into cheap international airfares, empty ocean-view hotels whichoffer low rates in high sea- son, superb service and no long lines at the evening buffet, a favorite time of the day for these Deut- 1 Continued from H-1 schlanders after baking in the sun all day. They dress for the evening with both courage and enterprise, drink large quantities of warm negotiated peace settlement between the Buddhist-Sinhalese dominated government and the Hindu Tamil rebels is an on-again off-again thing. The war has killed more than 60,000 people, many times the number of victims in Northern Ireland. Yet/ last year some halfmillion foreigners, mostly Germans,traveled to Sri Lanka on vacation. They came between. December and April, when beer, eat voluminously, andretire early so they won’t miss the first call for the breakfast buffet. It is important to understand that unless a German tourist can return froma winter vacation with a full-bodied tan which makes them resemble a mahogany arm- oire in both girth and hue, they genuinely’ feel their time abroad has beenill-spent. the There. are two final considerations which keep the Germans ~ weatheris atits best in Sri Lanka, and at its worst in Germany. They arriving in Sri Lanka. First is the generally chose to stay in the lav- geography of the fighting. The ish resorts that dot the west-coast beachesofthe island. Do the Ger- Tamil Tiger have concentrated their struggle for a sovereign state along thenortheast portion ofthis = mans know something aboutthis war that has escaped therest ofus? I believe they do! lush island. As such, travel is restricted to only about one-third of German travelers are a unique the island. The Germansand othertourists breed. They will spend their summer months searching the newspapers and watchingtelevision for - the latest coups, uprisings, revolu- tend to travel to the sweep of coastal resorts that run south from Colombo to the old colonial cityof tions, political assassinations or beaches, sun, surf and first-class The Germans have six Indian civilians wholost their lives quite accidentally in 1984 whena Tamil Tiger bomb intended for a Sri Lanka airliner exploded on the ground at Madras in south- ern India. Since then, the Tigers, who raise mostof their war chest from contributions in western countries with concentrations of Tamil immigrants, have let it be known to the world press that they have no intention of involving outsiders in this conflict. It should be noted thatthere is ‘an importanttradeoff in choosing Sri Lanka over the more peaceful andbetter-traveled parts of South- east Asia. I talked with manytravelers, among them, land, the Philippines and Malaysia, They felt as I did that none of these other destinations quite combine the elements of superb crystal-white beaches, antiquities, glorious landscapes, modern clean hotels, excellent food and service, exquisite arts and crafts, and a na- tive population who seemed delighted to have. travelers from abroad enjoy their stunning island. Savvy travelers canpartakeof Sri Lanka’srich culturalandreligious history and reap bargains. ancient hill capital of Kandy. There is aboutthis 6,000-footcity a feeling of faded gentility. It possesses an appealing and unspoiled quality I had not seen elsewhere in andgo and knowalmostnothingof the war. Kandy, ‘my favorite spot was the Clearly the highlight of my stay wasthe several days I spent in the even in 90-degree heat, with an ar- 6 Botanical Gardens, cool and serene ray of soaring royal palms, vast ically laid out, colorbycolor,in big crazed native landscape architect <a eseeee ee islandstate. Jt was as though some had planned andthencreated all of this unbridled profusion of flora, fauna, waterfalls, rubies, emeralds, birds and beaches. It proved againto be as lush andlovely as my boyhood imagining. 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