Things to do in Ella Sri Lanka
There’s much more than tea brewing in the hills of Sri Lanka Set on the southeastern edge of Uva Province, ELLA is one of the hill country’s most appealing destinations. This is the closest thing to an English country village you’ll find in Sri Lanka, enjoying a pleasantly temperate climate and surrounded by idyllic green hills blanketed […]
Modern Day Trinco
I have written about Trincomalee in the past but feel that I should cover this intriguing coastal town a bit more in detail, touching on the new attractions and sites to do and see while there. Trincomalee (popularly refered to as Trinco) is the largest city in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka and is […]
What to expect in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
In 1846, when Samuel Baker first visited the semi-enclosed valley surrounded by hills on the west and overlooked by Pidurutalagala, the island’s highest peak, he singled it out as an ideal spot for a hill country retreat. The town flourished into resemble the English country side with a 18 hole golf course (that is one […]
Arankele is one of the Sri Lankan cultural triangle’s best kept secrets, tucked away along a dirt track nestled deep amid thick jungle. The 6th-century cave her mirage lies 24 km (15 miles) north of Kurunegala and the short journey off Dambulla Road is well worth the detour. An austere sect of Vanavasin monks currently […]
A Sri Lankan Holiday – 2013
One of the best news to come out of Asia in the recent past was the end of the long-running civil war in Sri Lanka in 2009. Sri Lanka is one of the loveliest islands in the region, it was known to Arab traders as ‘Serendip’, then fell under Portuguese and later Dutch and British […]
PERADENIYA ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS
About 6 km (or 4 miles) from Kandy are the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens (open daily, 7.30am to 4.30pm with an entrance charge), the largest and finest in Sri Lanka. Enclosed in a loop of the Mahaweli Ganga river, the lush 60-hectare (147-acre) gardens are stuffed with a baffling array of Sri Lankan, Asian and international […]
KANDY
Although Kandy is now Sri Lanka’s second-largest city, it retains a surprisingly quaint small-town feel, its modest grid of low-rise streets are lined with characterful mix of both Kandyan and colonial-era buildings and preserve a certain old-fashioned, rustic charm which even the often dense throngs of traffic and pedestrians can’t entirely obscure. At the west […]
MIHINTALE
The history of Mihintale is the history of Sri Lankan Buddhism, and the town is entrenched in popular consciousness as the birthplace of the Sinhalese Buddhist civilization. Simply put, this where Buddhism first arrived in this island. Legend has it that this is where the Indian missionary Mahinda or local known as Mihidum Maha Rahatung […]
Low-Country Waterfalls of Sri Lanka
Waterfalls are a beautiful gift of mother nature is refreshing and calming scenery to enjoy. Waterfalls have been the theme of many poems and short stories and many compare it to a pretty village damsel with long hair cascading down like liquid light. Some times the water falls slowly while at times it cascades in […]
BATTICALOA AND THE SOUTHEAST COAST OF SRI LANKA
Batticaloa, a farely large town on the east coast, is famed for its singing fish. It is surrounded by a massive lagoon where a unique network of canals and waterways created from up-country rivers flow down towards the sea. There is controversy about the source of the sounds from this lagoon, which are heard very clearly between […]
