Gem Country Rock Superior gem seafood is sold, and tourists beware of fakes
Nowadays, young people, when they go out to travel, if they don't bring some local souvenirs, they will be very sorry for themselves. But looking at the dazzling array of foreign goods, he was a little overwhelmed. So, all kinds of shops have opened, and there are even some guides and local guides from different countries to let you go to specific stores to shop.
Sri Lanka is one of the more striking island nations of South Asia, with an area of 650,000 square kilometres and a population of 21 million. Even at an average of less than $4,000 per person, only two countries in South Asia, the Maldives and Sri Lanka, have the highest level of human development.
Wikipedia says that since the establishment of Sri Lanka, it has suffered hundreds of invasions (mainly India) until 1796, when the British began to colonize Sri Lanka, until 1948, when it gained freedom, but India has not stopped ruling Sri Lanka, and many wars and turmoil are caused by India.
Sri Lanka's economy began as a British legacy of cinnamon, rubber and tea, and after the introduction of a market economy in 1977, Sri Lanka's tourism industry has grown rapidly and has become an important pillar of the country's economy in the 21st century, reaching 70% of GDP in 2016.
Compared to resource-poor islands like the Maldives, Sri Lanka is a vibrant island destination, where you can enjoy beautiful scenery, cheap seafood, and different tropical forests.
Fifteen hundred years ago, the Sellendibu of the Middle East crossed the Indian Ocean to Sri Lanka, and he brought a large number of jewels from Sri Lanka, which made Persian and Middle Eastern merchants flock to the place, and Sri Lankan jewelry became an indispensable jewelry for the aristocracy. In 198, 90 percent of Sri Lanka's stones were found to be from the Precambrian, 660 million years of sediment, and it took years of tectonic activity to bring the jewels back to light.
According to the Sri Lanka Development Agency, about 25% of the country produces all kinds of jewelry, including the world's finest sapphires, yellow and purple crystals. Even Marco Polo once said in his travel notes: "The gems on this island are worthy of being gem islands, and their density is also the rarest in the world." ”
Sri Lankans are very interested in the variety of jewels here, and in order to dig up these stones, the whole island is covered with potholes, and it looks as if it has gone through a great war.
Sri Lanka's gem mines were of great interest to the British royal family for both production and quality, and after a formal set of identification methods, the entire industry was thrown into chaos, with most of the high-quality gems snapped up by merchants, leaving some low-grade gemstones that were less valuable and either eliminated or eliminated.
The tourism boom of the 21st century has given new life to Sri Lanka's jewellery industry, where the discarded pebbles are cut into small pieces and sold, and of course, the Chinese are given the best "care".
And those low-grade stones are often marked as "first-class" or "special-grade", and even a few "specialty store" guides and local staff will be remorseful when they return with a large stack of reports. What's even more interesting is that some people say that the stones they see in the store are not the same as the real stones, so they think they are fake and have been "dropped".
Therefore, for the average tourist, things like antiques, jadeite, jewelry, etc., are too difficult to deal with, and it is okay to spend money to buy happiness, but it is still a little unhappy to be deceived.