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The headlines tell us there’s danger everywhere in the world, even where you are reading this now. .
We wouldn’t suggest you travel to the North of Sri Lanka but here in the South its as safe as ever. The fighting is hundreds of kilometres away, further than Ireland from London or Southern Thailand from Phuket and the South of Sri Lanka has always been a safe place for tourists to visit. The Tigers have never targeted tourists anywhere in Sri Lanka at anytime during the last two decades..
Tourism is down but Galle Fort Hotel is is busy and our guests are having the most amazing holidays.. 0ometimes because they are the only people at a temple, the only people climbing Adam’s Peak, the only ones watching that leopard on a rock or the only ones on a picture perfect beach.
And isn’t that the thing we all dream of when we plan a holiday? Isn’t that the way the advertisements and brochures promise it? Its like that in Sri Lanka now. And it won’t be forever. Fortune favours the brave and the brave are coming now because its one of the last places on earth where you can find that space to breathe, that unique individual experience, that personal contact with this incredible country and its people? Next year it might be different…crowded, expensive and impossible. Our guests are here now and the people of Sri Lanka love them being here. It gives them hope for a brighter future. You will be surrounded in smiles. And you can only be part of that if you are prepared to read beyond the headlines…
London is Al Quada’s number one target. Closely followed by Sydney and most of the US of A. Would it, in fact, be safer to stay where you are?
The Chinese say that life is like a tiger. You can ride on its back or cower under its paw.
Its a choice. A balance. A way of life.
And there’s always the danger of doing nothing with your life.
Noel Coward summed it up beautfully in his ballad about the recently widowed Mrs Wentworth Brewster, who took a holiday in Capri, danced with sailors, ignored the pleas of her children and ” discovered, in the nick of time, that life is for living”.