Ceylon/Sri Lanka Reel one. circa 1980

A holiday in Sri Lanka, Snake charmers, fabric designing and painting by Sri Lankan girls, boys climbing palm trees for coconuts, building construction using bamboo scaffolding, fishing and fish markets, Boats and sailing boats, a railway and much more. Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, and southeast of the Arabian Sea, it is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait