With a devastating tsunami and a decades-long civil war behind it, the island nation is taking flight as a distinct luxury destination.
By Cynthia Rosenfeld
The Gippsaero GA8 Airvan floats nimbly through the clouds, sweeping over the paddies and craggy mountains of the Sri Lankan countryside. Travelling north from the island nation’s seaside metropolis of Colombo to its famed Cultural Triangle, the aircraft soars past Adam’s Peak-a jagged, cone-shaped mountain whose footprint-like indentations have for centuries prompted holy pilgrimages-then veers toward the tangled green hills of the northern steppes.
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