Photo Credits

Many photographs on this site come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under the licences below. Images have been resized and cropped for the web. We are grateful to the photographers.

Photo	Photographer	Licence
A blue train crossing the Nine Arch Bridge near Ella	Dilshan255	CC BY-SA 4.0
A golden Buddha statue in the shrine room of Gangaramaya Temple, Colombo	TheSriLankaLK	CC BY-SA 4.0
A leopard walking through the undergrowth in Yala National Park	AdrianRanasinghe	CC BY-SA 4.0
A path winding through green tea estates in the Sri Lankan hills	Adbar	CC BY-SA 3.0
A SriLankan Airlines Airbus A330 in flight	Gyrostat	CC BY-SA 4.0
A tea picker in a bright sari on a green tea estate	Peter Addor	CC BY-SA 4.0
A wild elephant and her suckling calf on the grasslands of Minneriya National Park	Carlos Delgado	CC BY-SA 4.0
Aerial view of Coconut Tree Hill in Mirissa, a palm-covered headland in turquoise sea	Sachin Kaveesha Fernando	CC BY-SA 4.0
Aerial view of the beach and fishing boats at Arugam Bay	Dennis Sylvester Hurd	CC0
Aerial view of the Mirissa coastline and bay	Dronepicr	CC BY 3.0
An elephant and her calf grazing in Udawalawe National Park	Ganiarachchi	CC BY-SA 4.0
An infinity pool overlooking Kandalama lake and forest	Jerzy Strzelecki	CC BY 3.0
Cinnamon, herbs and spices hanging in a Kandy market stall	McKay Savage	CC BY 2.0
Coconut palms leaning over the ocean at Mirissa	Swanthika	CC BY-SA 4.0
Colombo's skyline lit up at night, seen from the Lotus Tower	Thilina Alagiyawanna	CC0
Colonial-era buildings in the Fort district of Colombo	Adbar	CC BY-SA 3.0
Departure corridor at Bandaranaike International Airport	Cherubino	CC BY-SA 3.0
Elephants in illuminated costumes at the Kandy Esala Perahera	Daniel Liabeuf	CC BY-SA 3.0
Fairway lined with tall trees at the Nuwara Eliya golf course	Balou46	CC BY-SA 3.0
Fishing boats on the beach at Arugam Bay seen from above	Etienne Boulanger	CC BY 3.0
Galle Face promenade and beach with the Colombo skyline	Saqib Qayyum	CC BY-SA 3.0
Galle Fort ramparts and lighthouse beside the sea	FLASHPACKER TRAVELGUIDE	CC BY-SA 2.0
Golden sand and palm trees on Hikkaduwa beach	Dinusha Chathuranga	CC BY-SA 4.0
Kandy Lake with the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic on the shore	Philip Nalangan	CC BY 4.0
Mist drifting over forested mountains in the hill country	Vyacheslav Argenberg	CC BY 4.0
Painted ceiling and Buddha statues inside the Dambulla cave temple	Philip Nalangan	CC BY 4.0
Palm trees on the beach at Negombo	S B from Sydney, Australia	CC BY 2.0
Palm trees silhouetted against a pink sunset	Recal Media recalmedia	CC0
Palm-fringed Goyambokka Beach near Tangalle on the south coast	Satdeep Gill	CC BY 4.0
Palm-lined beach and calm bay at Unawatuna	Bernard Gagnon	CC BY-SA 3.0
Rolling tea plantations in the hills near Nuwara Eliya	Bergentroll	CC0
Seated Buddha carved into the granite at Gal Vihara, Polonnaruwa	Bernard Gagnon	CC BY-SA 3.0
Sigiriya rock seen from above the surrounding plains and hills	Gayomiw	CC BY-SA 4.0
Sri Lankan elephants bathing with their young in Yala National Park	Charles J. Sharp	CC BY-SA 4.0
Stilt fishermen perched on poles in the surf near Galle	Jakub Hałun	CC BY 4.0
Sunrise light over the ridges seen from Adam’s Peak (Sri Pada)	Dhanushka Meegaswatte	CC BY-SA 4.0
Tea pluckers at work among the bushes of a hill-country tea estate	Dan Lundberg	CC BY-SA 2.0
The Nine Arch Bridge curving through the forest near Ella	Dr.S.Rajivraja	CC BY-SA 4.0
The rock fortress of Sigiriya rising above the forest	V. Epiney	CC BY-SA 2.0
The sun setting over Kandalama lake near Dambulla	Jerzy Strzelecki	CC BY 3.0
The tail of a blue whale diving off the south coast of Sri Lanka	Arian Zwegers	CC BY 2.0
The water gardens leading to Sigiriya rock	Bernard Gagnon	CC BY-SA 3.0
The white dome of Ruwanwelisaya stupa in Anuradhapura	Saqib Qayyum	CC BY-SA 3.0
The white lighthouse on the ramparts of Galle Fort	Michael Gunther	CC BY-SA 4.0
Turquoise water and rocks along the bay at Mirissa	Abishek Palraj	CC BY-SA 4.0
View along the railway tracks from a train in the hill country at dusk	Nisal Senanayaka	CC BY-SA 4.0
White frangipani (temple tree) flowers	Dinesh Valke from Thane, India	CC BY-SA 2.0
White sand and clear water at Pigeon Island near Trincomalee	Chiranmayu Medis	CC BY-SA 4.0

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