Embark on an exciting excursion to discover a unique indigenous community on the island of Sri Lanka: the Veddha community. Make this unique village part of your Sri Lanka travel excursions and ensure you book with reputable professional Jetwing Travels for a fun range of Sri Lanka tours and excursions guaranteed to be unforgettable. You will get to travel to an authentic Vedda community and meet these interesting people, whose way of life are threatened by modernity and acclimatization into the major ethnic groups on the island. Their ancestry dates back to the original Neolithic community that inhabited the island from around 16000 BC. Today’s Veddha community observes a cyclical world view, as well as an impressive prehistoric cultural memory and tried and true methods of knowledge that has ensured their survival thus far in the monsoon forest that houses them. Some tours offer all visitors the option of staying within the Veddha camp for a full immersion into their way of life, and you will get to eat with them as well as experience the day-to-day goings-on of this unique people. Your guide will be happy to act as the official translator as you step into a world on the brink of extinction, one that has survived the onslaught of technology and science to result in an authentic example of living ecology.
