{"id":10571,"date":"2018-12-17T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilankafinder.com\/?p=10571"},"modified":"2018-12-22T08:19:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T02:49:04","slug":"useful-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilankafinder.ru\/en\/useful-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Given the importance of tourism to the National economy, there are surprisingly few sources of official tourist information in Sri Lanka itself and no overseas tourist offices. For more information on specific attractions, the best sources are independent tour operators, as well as hotel and Guesthouse staff.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In tourist offices and hotels, a free monthly print edition of &#8220;Travel Lanka&#8221; is available, which contains lists of accommodation, shops, services and transport in the capital and around the island. &#8220;Time Out Sri Lanka&#8221; (timeout.com\/sri-lanka) quite popular in Colombo, and it is also worth seeing the printed version of &#8220;Yamu&#8221; (yamu.lk).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Website of the tourism Council of Sri Lanka (srilanka.travel) &#8211; the only state online source of tourist information. There are also interesting pages &#8220;Ari Withanage&#8217;s Sri Lanka&#8221; (withanage.tripod.com) and &#8220;Eclectic Lanka Library&#8221; (lankalibrary.com), where you will find a lot of information about the country, culture, history and cuisine.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">CeylonToday (www.ceylontoday.lk) &#8211; news, sports, entertainment and user-friendly interface with exchange rates.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">GossipLanka (www.english.gossiplankanews.com) gossip, news and entertainment.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Yamu (www.yamu.lk) &#8211; attractions, restaurant reviews, Bulletin Board and more.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">State information center (www.gic.gov.lk) a wealth of information on transport, health, tourism, etc.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Meteocenter (www.meteo.gov.lk) forecasts the weather across the country.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Check cheap air tickets to Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><!-- \/wp:post-content --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the importance of tourism to the National economy, there are surprisingly few sources of official tourist information in Sri Lanka itself and no overseas tourist offices. For more information on specific attractions, the best sources are independent tour operators, as well as hotel and Guesthouse staff. In tourist offices and hotels, a free monthly&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/srilankafinder.ru\/en\/useful-websites\/\">View Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1861],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[595,1075,2743,112,106,2742,2623,2740,107,103,2652,2739,2738,2736,2737,2741,2515,2516,2517,2518,2514,2513],"class_list":["post-10571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srilankafinder.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srilankafinder.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srilankafinder.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srilankafinder.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srilankafinder.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=10571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/srilankafinder.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11007,"href":"https:\/\/srilankafinder.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/revisions\/11007\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srilankafinder.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10191\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srilankafinder.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=10571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srilankafinder.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=10571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srilankafinder.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=10571"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srilankafinder.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words\/?post=10571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}