Sports and Adventure
Due to varying climate conditions and geography Sri Lanka is an ideal destination for sports tourism. Some of the popular sports include golf, surfing, Diving & Snorkeling, Hot Air Ballooning, Rafting and Canoeing, Scuba Diving, fishing, Cycling, Hiking, Trekking and Rock Climbing
Locations popular for specific sports
- White water rafting - Kithulgala
- Surfing - Arugam Bay
- Boating - Bentota, Bolgoda, Madhu ganga, Koggala
- Trekking - Knuckles Mountain Range, Hortan plains, Sripada aka Adam's peak
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Famous quotes containing the words sports and, sports and/or adventure:
“Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,
The exuberant voices of music,
Have charm for children but lack nobility; it is bitter earnestness
That makes beauty; the mind
Knows, grown adult.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they’ve had since time began.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)