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Sri Lanka / Travel Information / ShoppingFrom traditional crafts to the latest modern gadgets, the range of wares on sale is immense. Serious shoppers and souvenir-hunters will have a field day in the marketplace. Sri Lanka is indeed a shopper’s paradise with a wide range of handicrafts at really reasonable prices. In addition it is famous for gems & silverware. All tastes are catered for and it pays the discerning shopper to hunt in bazaars for unusual souvenirs. Contemporary
paintings, dolls, ebony work, brassware, rush & ready- ware,
ac work (a distinctive form of traditional lacquer work on wood)
drums etc., and many more traditional crafts offer the tourists
some unusual souvenirs of their stay in Sri Lanka.
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