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xavierl92

Trip planned to Sri Lanka with family mid-December - should I still go?

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Hi,

I had a trip planned for Sri lanka from the 18th to the 27th of December. I have been to your country before and found it really cool. This time it is my family's first international trip in a decade, and we were really looking forward to it. The itenary is Nuwara eliya, ella and mirrissa. However, given the recent scale of devastation with the floods and cyclones, I am wondering whether we should still proceed with it. I am worried about three things primarily:

  1. Whether there is potential for another storm/cyclone of this scale to strike again during this period

  2. Whether the infrastructure and roads would have recovered by that time

  3. Whether it is insensitive to the local people for us to be vacationing while they have just suffered such a big loss there

I would love to hear from other people already there or with experience in similar circumstances

Posted Dec 1, 2025, 7:00 PM UTC

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