Observations

• What I eat with a fork, Sri Lankas eat with their hands - e.g. rice and curry
• What I eat with my hands, Sri Lankans eat with a fork - e.g. pizza
• Colombo's traffic rivals the D.C. metro area. Luckily, in Sri Lanka you can easily get a driver to battle the traffic for you.
• Lots of people like to stare, especially the creepy looking dudes. Its a south Asian thing.
• The abundance of fresh, tasty, and readily available tropical fruit (pineapple, mango, papaya, avacado, and many more) can not be overstated. That alone makes it worthwhile to visit. A pineapple costs 50 cents, an avacado 25.
• I don't blame Sri Lankans for drinking Ceylon tea multiple times a day. Its damn good.
• Sri Lankans love cricket. That's why despite the NBA playoffs going on, all I catch on ESPN and Star Sports is reruns of some cricket test match from 3 years ago.
• Sri Lankan's are generally free-sprited, happy, easy going, helpful people.
• That said, the country as a whole has nobody to blame but themselves for lack of development. Sri Lanka is a land blessed with natural resources and sheer beauty, yet the people have torn each other and the country apart for the past few decades. Sri Lanka was on its way to being the Singapore of southeast Asia, but shot itself in the foot multiple times.
• The real Sri Lanka lies outside of Colombo. Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, Hatton, Galle, Yala, and on and on are all beautiful places (I've been to a few of them and can confirm)
• Americans generally don't think of visiting Sri Lanka. Most don't know a think about this island. Its a shame, because Sri Lanka is worth visitng.