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One of the most cherished festivities celebrated by the Sri Lankan Tamils; this year’s Thai Pongal lands on the 15th of January, marking it the first day of the month of Thai on the Tamil traditional calendar. Thai Pongal is a thanksgiving ceremony where the farmers show gratitude to the spirits, the sun and the far...
For a small island in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka enjoys the second most number of public holidays in the world. This is given to the fact that the island’s population is made up of beautiful multiethnic people coming from different religions and cultural backgrounds. With every full moon declared a public poya holiday in honor of Buddhism, Sri Lanka has a total of 25 official annual holidays and a number of spectacular festivals that celeb...