Serendib

The Islad's beauty, abundance and culture
earned forit much praise and many admiring
names. Ancient Moorish merchants called Sri Lanka
the "Isle of Deligt"To early Arab traders it was
"Serendib",the Land of happy surprises,and to
medieval explorer Marco Polo,"the finest island in
all the world"American novelist MarkTwain called it
"beautiful and most sumptuously tropical".Mahatma
Gandhi was convinced that Sri Lanka's natural beauty
was Unsurpassed on the face of the earth.