Sri Lanka travel stories
Kandy, long considered the cultural capital of Sri Lanka, is a 3-hour train ride from the largest city, Colombo, and was my first destination after arriving from the airport. At the station, right under the iconic Lotus Tower in the capital city, I watched locals pay...
The soft rays of the 8 o'clock sun played peekaboo with me, as I cycled into the historic city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, that May in 2016. Tall trees stooped and swished to embrace, and the asphalt road flowed evenly. A five kilometre cruise towards the old city of...
Looking for leopards at Yala National Park in Sri Lanka, sounds like one of the easiest things to do, especially once you learn that the park is known to have the largest population of leopards in the world. I mean, how hard can it be right? Here's what I learnt....
I arrived late in the evening in Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital and even at the airport I could smell the fragrance of cinnamon that Sri Lanka is so famous for. In Colombo, I was staying at the glamorous Galle Face Hotel. The hotel is a gracious, historical seaside...
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage Some surprise guests arrived while I was finishing my breakfast. And it was well worth the interruption. I sat outside on my balcony enjoying the view of the Maha Oya River "“ swirling water studded by emerald palm trees. It was...
I had been in Sri Lanka for a week, and now a couple of friends and I are passing through the interior of the island-nation the size of West Virginia. The road's edge is lined with a four-pronged spacey wire fence standing roughly ten feet high, this marks the...
Television news bombards us daily with images of global destruction, famine, disease, and wars. No wonder we despair at the future mankind is forging for itself, one filled with hopelessness and religious fanatics hiding behind guns. However, what the news does not...
As diverse as its ethnicities, is the variety of food available in Sri Lanka. From Aubergines, to a host of green leafy vegetables, and papaws and bananas from home grown garden plots, to delicious four course menus to suit the most discerning; Sri Lanka has it all....
Visitors to Sri Lanka will have the rare opportunity to step inside the private world of one of Asia's most celebrated architects when his country estate, Lunuganga, opens as an exclusive boutique hotel later this year. Geoffrey Bawa, widely acknowledged as the...
