BEHIND THE SCENES
Stuart Butler
First and foremost I must, once again, thank
my wife, Heather, and children, Jake and
Grace, for putting up with my extended pe-
riods away while working on this project and
(to Heather) for coping so admirably with two
small children on her own. As always massive
thanks to my Sri Lankan friends Dimuthu
Priyadarshana and family, HA Anura, Milroy
Fernando, Sena and Rashinika Kolamba-
hewage, Stephanie and Palitha, Ramyadava
Gunasekara, Juliet Coombe, Jai and Sumana
and Sue and Faiesz, at Sharon Inn. Finally,
thanks to all the other nameless Sri Lankans I
pestered with questions about bus schedules
and so on.
Iain Stewart
Thanks to Somey for scenic rides and great
company, Mark Wyndham and the crew
for the bike trip, Dimuthu for his hospitality
and all in Mannar and Jaffna. And to James
Smart, Joe Bindloss and the Lonely Planet
team for their professionalism and help on
this title.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Climate map data adapted from Peel MC,
Finlayson BL & McMahon TA (2007) ‘Updated
World Map of the Köppen-Geiger Climate
Classification’, Hydrology and Earth System
Sciences, 11, 1633¬44.
Cover photograph: Stilt fishing, near
Weligama. Jon Hicks/Corbis
THIS BOOK
This 13th edition of Lonely
Planet’s Sri Lanka guidebook
was researched and written
by Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Stuart
Butler and Iain Stewart. The
previous two editions were
written by Brett Atkinson,
Stuart Butler, Ethan Gelber,
Amy Karafin and Ryan Ver
Berkmoes.
Destination Editors Joe
Bindloss, James Smart
Product Editor Amanda
Williamson
Senior Cartographer David
Kemp
Book Designer Jessica Rose
Assisting Editors Victoria
Harrison, Kate Kiely, Kellie
Langdon, Rosie Nicholson,
Christopher Pitts, Erin Richards
Assisting Cartographers
Mick Garrett, Corey Hutchison,
Rachel Imeson
Cover Researcher Naomi
Parker
Language Content
Branislava Vladisavljevic
Thanks to Ryan Evans,
Claire Naylor, the Kates,
Karyn Noble, Angela Tinson,
Samantha Tyson, Lauren
Wellicome
