Sri Lankan rice and curry
- Eat only with your right hand
- on Buddhist holidays (full-moon poya days), many places don't sell alcohol
Etiquette & taboos
Etiquette & taboos
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Site-specific notes 4
Taken from the "don'ts" on each site page here. Open a site for its full etiquette and background.
Galle Fort
- The currents around the diving rocks are tricky, so visitors should not copy the jumps
- wear comfortable shoes on the old town's stone streets.
Temple of the Tooth, Kandy
- Visitors in revealing clothes will be asked to rent a sarong
- don't touch monks (especially female visitors)
- crowds are huge during the Perahera, so watch your belongings.
Sigiriya (Lion Rock)
- Photography is banned in the fresco gallery (there are guards)
- don't crowd or push on the climb — the spiral staircase is narrow.