Vavuniya Travel Guide

Vanuniya is a lethargic town set in the northern part of Sri Lanka, occasionally appearing on the newspaper and the late-night news or being a frontline town between the conflicting Sri Lankan army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, commonly known as Tami Tigers. If other Sri Lanka's township is peppered with verdant tea plantations and impressive dagoba (monuments), Vanuniya's landscape, in contrast, is dotted with refugee camps, languishing children and old men and women begging for alms. Since water facility is severely limited and living conditions are compromised...