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I love bananas! I could eat them everyday. Learning about all the different types of dessert bananas, the tastes between them, and since my other 4 bananas seem to be thriving in my yard I decided it was time to add 4 new ones. I only paid $10 a piece for these, 2 came from 1 vendor and 2 came from another vendor. These were all tagged at $15 each but that Sunday afternoon pass through produce some great deals and these were some of them. The first is a Burmese Blue Banana and she has a few pups shooting.Then the little skinny 1 is a Mysore BananaThen the Pysang Ceylon BananaFinally the Goldfinger Banana.Come Watch my Plants Grow

This tour takes you through Sri Lanka’s most interesting and beautiful landscapes - from the lush green tea plantations of the hill country, through dramatic mountain valleys and scrub jungles, you will pass from sea-level to four thousand feet above in a matter of hours. We have selected a couple of unique boutique hotels and [...]

This superb tour takes you on an extraordinary journey to experience many of the most impressive and beautiful sights of Sri Lanka. It includes breathtaking cave temples, ancient cities with many impressive archaeological ruins and holy centres for pilgrims, a 5th Century BC rock fortress, emerald green tea plantations and an unforgettable visit [...]

When I first saw this box of mini cream puffs, I was a little frightened. On one hand I thought, yum, Ceylon tea-flavored mini cream puffs! On the other hand, I figured these would be crammed so full of preservatives that they’d taste like plastic. After all, what kind of shelf life can be expected [...]

TEA ESTATE BUNGALOW | LUXURY ROOMS AND SUITES “Not often is it that men have heart when their one great industry is withered, to rear up in a few years another as rich to take its place, and the tea fields of Ceylon are as true a monument to courage as is the lion at Waterloo” [...]

COLOMBO CITY HOTEL | 250 ROOMS INCLUDING SUITES Overlooking the Indian Ocean, the Ceylon Continental Hotel Colombo which is primarily a 5 star business hotel, is popularly known as “The Warmest Heart in Sri Lanka”. The hotel is strategically and picturesquely located in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital of Colombo. This 250 room hotel is 35 km [...]

Richly saturated lab-created gemstones are showcased in 10 karat white gold and embellished with genuine diamond accents to create these very elegant dangle earrings. A purple-blue lab-created ceylon briolette, set with a diamond-accented white gold cap, dangles below an additional petite prong-set diamond accent. Above, a deep blue pear-shaped lab-created sapphire stone shines in a three-prong setting. The earrings are subtle in scale and very elegant in their design. They are a perfect complement to an evening outfit, and can easily be worn in the daytime too. The earrings are set on 10 karat white gold posts and fasten with friction back closures.

Ruby is a red gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide)in which the color is caused mainly by chromium. Its name originates fromruber or rubrum, Latin for red. Natural rubies are exceptionally rare,though artificial ones (sometimes called created ruby) can be manufacturedby the Verneuil process relatively inexpensively. Other varieties ofgem-quality corundum are called sapphires.Rubies are mined in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Greenland. They are mostoften found in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Madagascar and Thailand, thoughthey have also been found in the U.S. states of Montana, North Carolina andSouth Carolina. The Mogok Valley in Myanmar has produced some of the finestrubies. However in recent years very few good rubies have been found there.In central Myanmar the area of Mong Hsu also produces rubies. In 2002 rubieswere found in the Waseges River area of Kenya. Rubies are being mined atAudilamena in northeastern Madagascar. Sometimes spinels are found alongwith ru

Sapphire is an aluminum oxide. Its colour varies from very light to dark blue to violetish-blue, bluish-green, yellow, slightly reddish-orange, brown, nearly opaque black, colorless, pink, violet and the pinkish-orange padparadscha (lotus flower).Ceylon sapphires are part of the Corundum gem family and are second only to diamonds in hardness. This strength makes them an excellent choice of jewelry because of their durability. The sapphires mined in Sri Lanka are known for the unique color they produce. Because Ceylon sapphires occur naturally, the color of the stone varies.Often, sapphires used in jewelry are heat-treated or given chemical diffusion to enhance their color, these enhancements are permanent.Sapphire is the birthstone of SeptemberTreatments - Sapphires can be x-rayed to intensify their colour. Natural sapphires undergo heat and diffusion treatments in Thailand. With the first method, sapphires with latent chemical components for good color are "ripened" to a desirable col

Precambrian Age: Period starts with the birth of Earth and the gradual appearance of many-celled animals, about 570 million years ago. Nine-tenths of the island of Sri Lanka is underlain by rocks of Precambrian age. The Precambrian crystalline rocks of Sri Lanka are divided into three major units: the Highland group, the Southwestern group, and the Vijayan Complex.1st Century AD: The historical chronicle of Sri Lanka, the Mahavamsa, records that gemstones were among the gifts of Sri Lanka's king, Devanampiyatissa, to Emperor Ashoka of India. The Mahavansa also records that the Buddha visited Sri Lanka to settle a dispute between the Naga King Mahodara and Prince Chulodara over a throne studded with gemstones.5th Ce

Ruby is an aluminum oxide, a variety of corundum; it occurs in medium to dark tones of red and violet-red to brownish-red.Ruby is the most popular and highest priced colored stone of all time and its being used in King's crowns through out the history.The Burmese believed that "blazing red" stones could be found in a "bottomless" valley. Natives threw pieces of meat into the valley, hoping that some stones could then be recovered by killing the vultures. In the Royal Collection of England, you can view a gold ring set with a pale but nearly flawless ruby into which a portrait of Louis XII of France is carved.The most important factor in the value of a ruby is color. The top qualities are as red as you can imagine: a saturated pure spectral hue without any overtones of brown or blue. The word red is derived from the Latin word for ruby, rubier, which is derived from similar words in Persian, Hebrew, and Sanskrit. The intensity of color of a fine ruby is like a glowing coal, probably th

Sapphire is an aluminum oxide. Its color varies from very light to dark blue and varieties of colorless (white sapphire), yellow, violet, pink, green and the pinkish-orange (padparadscha sapphire).Sapphires are generally treated with x-ray and heat to intensify their color. Natural sapphires undergo heat and diffusion treatments almost always. Treatment of blue stones is permanent.Ceylon SapphiresThe Ceylon Blue Sapphire is known for its beauty – possessing the glorious cornflower blue shade – as well as for being one of the few sapphires in the world that can be sold as a completely natural stone without heat treatment. The blues aside, Ceylon sapphires also come in beautiful hues including pink, yellow, orange, green, purple, lavender and of course, the inimitable padparadscha sapphire (Pink-Orange). All these highly marketable qualities of Ceylon sapphire has created brand recognition world wide - a brand not created by the producers of the stone, but by the sellers and consumer

The gems of Sri Lanka are woven in to his history. The Mahavansa, the ancient chronicle of Sri Lanka too mentioned about gems and jewelry. Indeed, the lord Buddha himself is sad to have had to come to Sri Lanka from India to settle a dispute between two kings, Chulodara and Mahodara, over a throne of gems.King Soloman is reported to have had gems brought from this island to win the heart of beautiful queens. The great traveler, Marco Polo, was said to have been so awe struck by a priceless ruby in the possession of the king of Sri Lanka that the recorded it as been "span in length, with out a flow, brilliant beyond compare".Sri Lanka became known as Ratna Deepa (The Island of Gems). Some of the rarest precious stones in the world are found in abundances in the reach earth under our feet and the hills above us. Among the several world famous gems Sri Lanka's blue sapphire weighing 466 carats, the largest known sapphire in the world. Weighing in at 19Kg was also discovered h

There are lots of different kinds of beverages here in Seoul. Coffee, instant coffee, tea, barley cola, etc. Now, whenever I'm feeling down and I need a pick me up, the choices I just mentioned pop into my mind. Lately, I've added another drink to that list. What is this drink you ask? It's another incredible product from the enormous Korean conglomerate Lotte, Ceylon Tea.There is a huge market in Korea for iced green tea. Most Koreans drink green tea as a healthy alternative to sugary carbonated sodas. However, I have yet to find sweetened green tea. The next best thing is Lotte's Ceylon tea. It tastes like lemon iced tea with just a right amount of sweetness. It's extremely refreshing and highly addicting. So addicting that we recently bought a case of 30 cans from Costco. If you like this tea, buying it at Costco is the most economical solution. Normally these cans sell for 650-700w (65-70 cents) at convenience stores. However, the price works out to 300w/can (30 cents) by buy

by MaditaI'd like to stayBut I'm feeling very sorry for youLife is too strangeI will not replyYour easy flowing letterNever ask whyYou didn't catch the matterI tint your old tie and put in your cupboard for sometimeI brew you some cajI should not forget to drink mineI darn your old tightsIn case of some lonely cold nightsDon't show any triesJust wanted to make myself satisfiedMaybe one dayWe will talk about the weatherAll rainy days passed byGrowing againThe touch of your hand above myHeart and the kissing is tearing us apartI tint your old tieAnd put in your cupboard for sometimeI brew you some cajI should not forget to drink mineI darn your old tightsIn case of some lonely cold nightsDon't show any triesJust wanted to make myself satisfied

Belkin announced a brand new laptop bag in January at CES 2008, the Ceylon Messenger. It's a simple, light bag "for local outings with your laptop." Now that we finally have one in for review, we're going to decide if the Ceylon Messenger is worth buying and taking with you ...