Sri Lanka is firmly back on the holiday map ... Sri Lanka is hoping to welcome 1.5 million visitors by the end of the year and looks on track ... there’s no real “peak” or “off” season ...

Do Sri Lanka the local way: by train. Take the coastal railway line and then a ride into the uphill country. You can stop off at the best beaches, the national parks and the old cities along the way.

Base map data from OpenStreetMap. Correction: April 24, 2019 An earlier version of a map with this article incorrectly labeled a body of water between India and Sri Lanka as the Palk Strait.