vacation rentals: My fianc茅e and I are looking for cheap places to rent for vacation for week by owner or whatever. We have open mind from anywhere as long as the price is right and the stay is nice. Does anyone know of any good website or have any suggestions. That would be greatly appreciated. Thanks|||sri lanka is a nice place to travel. Because there are lots of thing and places to watch in a small island,if you gone a start from Colombo u can travel to any direction in around two,three hours by a vehicle. http://www.leisuretours.biz/ http://www.hellovisit.com/ http://www.leisuretours.biz/tours/island鈥?/a> http://www.lanka.com/sri-lanka/sri-lanka鈥?/a> http://www.srilanka.com/photogallery/gal鈥?/a> Major tourist attractions are focused around the islands famous beaches located in the southern and eastern parts of the country. Ancient heritage sites located in the interior of the country and lush green resorts located in the mountainous regions of the country. There are manyNational Parks you can visit in Sri Lanka. Yala is the largest national park. http://www.info.lk/srilanka/srilankanatu鈥?/a> http://www.nature.alawathugoda.com/ohiya鈥?/a> Also Pinnawala Elhipant Opernage famous residents such as the three-legged elephant, Sama, who stood on a land mine, and a blind elephant, Raja. The orphanage population is constantly augmented by new arrival Born Free in captivity: about one elephant is born here every year. The successful captive breeding project had so far produced 22 second generation births. http://www.angelpark.lk/pinnawala.html If u want to shopping during you`r trip, You can buy cloths( like cloths for you`r winter season,also other cloths) very cheap in Colombo(House of fashion,odel,majick city,kandy鈥re few of good fashion houses in sri lanka. If u want to buy leather works like bags, wallets,chairs鈥?very cheap in pinnawala. If u want to buy jems Rathnapura is the best place to buy them. I hope u will enjoy you`r trip.|||Try www.roomorama.com Roomorama is basically a peer to peer online marketplace for short term rentals, this sounds exactly like what you're looking for. I've used them before and had a great experience! Hope you do too.|||I've used "vacation rent by owner" (vrbo.com) while traveling in Italy....I have many friends who use that source monthly to find nice places in the US....|||Try http://www.apartime.com to rent an apartment in Barcelona.