Turquoise - exPLORE Sri Lanka
Explore Sri Lanka– the opportunity for 20 students from 16 countries all around the world to get together and travel around the beautiful island of Sri Lanka. As a positive side-effect, we document every trip we go on, making photos, videos and articles to promote the tourism of the country. By that, we as a group grow together, getting to know not only one culture, but 16 in total. Everyone contributes to the goal of showing the country to the world as well as he can by working on different tasks regarding to the project. The biggest advantage we as a group have might there be the fact that we see everything not only through 20 different pairs of eyes, but also from 16 more or less different cultural backgrounds and perspectives. Sharing this experience lets everyone pull even more out of it, making the final output as multinational and global as possible.The project is hosted by the local department of AIESEC, a student run, non-profit organization as a part of its Global Community Development Program, which is aimed at building up relationships among students all over the world.
Once you get to know Sri Lanka, you will not understand why this place is not full of tourists yet at all. Beautiful beaches meet astonishing countryside, friendly people, a huge variety of animals and an exciting diversity of cultural influences. Eight UNESCO Culture Sites invite people to get to know a place of pure beauty, which is in contrast to some other Asian places not overcrowded with tourists and still affordable to go to yet. Traveling around is very easy as nearly every place on the island is reachable within one day. By that it is possible to visit one of the impressive Buddhist temples in the morning, do a river safari at noon and relax at one the various beautiful and lonely beaches in the afternoon.
After the end of the long lasting civil war in 2009, Sri Lanka has stabilized, and tourism is a great chance for the country for further development. Sri Lanka has not arrived in the league of mass tourism yet, but everyone who likes to travel Asia, or simply wants to explore a place of great history and appeal should definitely put Sri Lanka on his list!
In fact, there are working environments out there which are worse that an island in the Indian Ocean. It is not hard or difficult to get inspired to write about your experience if you are lying at lonely beach, only with the sound of the ocean or to capture the landscape on astonishing photographs if you only have to put the lens at a random point and pull the trigger.
Just check out the following if you are not convinced yet, it is worth it!
