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The travel information centres are maintained by the Sri Lanka Tourist Board to assist tourists by advising them on all aspects of their stay in the island.

Custom Formalities :
Visitors are required to re-export articles brought in as personal effects. Make sure that you take back cameras and photographic equipment and any transistor radios, recorders and sound equipment declared on arrivals. The customs check is usually oral. However random examinations of baggage is carried out.

Tourists and visitors baggage Concessions :

Arrivals
> Declare all your currency, valuable equipment, jewellery and gems.
> If you have nothing to declare you can go through the green channel.
> Your baggage should not contain goods for others, goods in commercial quantities and
prohibited or restricted goods. Some of them are : Dangerous Drugs, Weapons & Explosive Devices, and Gold.
> You are required to take back all your personal effects at your departure.
> You are entitled : (a) 1-1/2 litters of spirits, two bottles of wine, 200 cigarettes or 50 cigars. (b) A small quantity of perfumes and travel souvenirs not exceeding US $ 250/ in value.
> Professional Teams : Filiming and photographic equipment will be allowed on valid Carnet or a bank Guarantee or on a refundable deposit of the duty payable on the items.

Tourists and Visitors
(a.) Permitted

> You are entitled to take out what you have declared and brought into the Country and whatever you have purchased locally like gems, jewellery and Sri Lankan products out of the funds brought in and declared to CUSTOMS on your arrival.
> 3 Kilos of SRI LANKA TEA duty free.
> Foreign Currency declared and brought into the country. Unused Sri Lanka currency should be reconverted to foreign currency at departure.

(b.) Not Permitted

> All currencies in excess of your declared amounts on arrival
(a) Any Gems and Jewellery or valuable equipment not declared on arrival or NOT PURCHASED in Sri Lanka out Funds declared and brought into the country.
(b) Gold (Crude, Bullion or Coins)
> Sri Lanka Currency in excess of Rs. 250/-
> Firearms, explosives and dangerous weapons
> Antiques, statues, treasures, old books, ect.
> Animals, birds and reptiles and their parts (Dead or alive).
> Tea, Rubber and Coconut Plants.
> Dangerous drugs.
Do not carry dangerous Drugs – Drugs mean death by law and effect


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Useful address and contact numbers :

Airport		Accident Service
Bandaranayaka International Airport,		Regent Street, Colombo - 08
Katunayaka.		T' phone : 691111
T' phone : 252861/ 7 (General) - 255555
		Colombo South Hospital
Automobile Association Of Ceylon		T' phone : 763261
40, Sir Macan Marker Mawatha
Galle Face, Colombo - 03		Colombo North Hospital
T' phone : 421528-9		Sri Jayawardena Pura
		T' phone : 778610
Bandaranayaka Memorial International
Conference Hall (BMICH)		General Post Office
Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo - 07		Janadhipathi Mawatha, Colombo - 01
T' phone : 691131-34, 686421-24		Post Restante : T' phone : 326203

Central Bus Station		ICRC
Olcott Mawatha, Colombo - 01		29, Layards Road, Colombo - 05
T' phone : 328081 (inquiries)		Poste Restante : T' phone : 503395

Central Telegraph Office		Port Health Office
Duke Street, Colombo.		New Jetty, (For Yellow Fever Immunisation)
T' phone : 432424
		Railway Tourist Information Centre
Ceylon Hotels Corporation		Fort Railway Station, Colombo - 01
No. 411, Galle Road, Colombo - 04		T' phone : 435838
T' phone : 503497
		Sri Lankan Airlines
For Reservation - Travel Bureau		Level 19-22, East Tower, World Trade Centre,
T' phone : 503497 / 503558		Echelon Square, Colombo - 01
		T' phone : 073-5555
Sri Lanka Tourist Board		Flight Information : Tel : 073-2677 / 2377
80, Galle Road, Colombo - 03
T' phone : 437059, 437060, 437952		Sri Lanka Customs (Dept.)
		Customs House
Tourist Information Centre - Colombo		Times Of Ceylon Bldg., Colombo - 01
T' phone : 437571		T' phone : 421141 /5 - Head Office
Kandy - Tel : 08-22661
International Air Port - Tel : 252411		Sri Lanka Government Railway
		Fort Railway Station
Dept. Of Immigration & Emigration		T' phone : 421281, Inquiries - 434215
Tower Build, Station Road, Colombo - 04
T' phone : 503629, 503638		Sri Lanka Red Cross Society
Visa Office : 597511		106, Dharmapala Mawatha,
		Colombo - 07
Dept. Of Wild Life Conservation		T' phone : 691095, 699934 /5
18, Gregory's Road, Colombo - 07
T' phone : 694241		Tourist Police
		Fort Police Station,
General Hospital		Bank Of Ceylon Mawatha, Colombo - 01
Regent Street, Colombo - 08
(24 hours patient treatment)		Emergency
T' phone : 691111		T' phone : 433333

National Zoological Garden		Fire And Ambulance
Dehiwala		T' phone : 422222
T' phone : 712751-3, 716251
		Crime Detection Bureau
		T' phone : 691500

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Information On Railway :

Colombo - Kandy

Fort	Kandy	Kandy	Fort
0055	0842	0625*	0900
0700*	0935	1030	1350
1240	1610	1540	1855
1535*	1805	1500*	1735

Galle	Hikkaduwa	Fort
0645	0708	0915
0740	0807	1005
1040	1110	1322
1445	1509	1730
1805	1835	2110

* Intercity, Observation saloon available

Reservation of accomodation in Trains

Can be reserved 10days Prior to the date of travel from fort Railway Station.

Colombo - Anuradhapura

Fort	A' Pura	A' Pura	Fort
1545*	1940	0640*	1030
0545	1020	0500	1005
1400	1900	1430	1920

Tel : 432908 Mon - Sat 08.30am 03.30pm,
Sun - Holidays 08.30- 12.00 Noon
Reserved accommodation is available in the following
trains

* Intercity, Air conditioned saloon available

First Class

Sleeping berths in night trains, seat in the observation saloons of hill country trains and seats in the air-conditioned coach in the northern line.

Colombo - Polonnaruwa

Fort	P'naruwa	P'naruwa	Fort
2230	0710	1930	0400

2nd & 3rd Class

Colombo - Trincomalee

Sleeperettes on day and night trains

Fort	Trinco	Trinco	Fort
0615	1410	0945	1745
2230	0845	1700	0400

Railway Retiring Rooms

Are available at Anuradhapura, Kandy, Polganhawela, Mihintale, Galle, Trincomalee, Maho at nominal rates
for overnight stay. Inquires for prior bookings could be made by callomg 320109 Colombo or at the respective stations.

Colombo - Nuwara-Eliya

Fort	N'Oya	N'Oya	N'Oya
0555	1252	0931*	1530
0945*	1537	1249	1945

* Intercity, Observation saloon available

Railway Inquires - Tel : 434215

Fort	Hikkaduwa	Galle
0710	0933	1016
0900	1107	1145
1030	1241	1325
1600	1800	1835
1700	1853	1915

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