Theja Weeratne The name "LIPTON" is synonymous with Good Tea. "Lipton's Tea Garden" - as Ceylon was known in the...

An hour's drive further down Galle Road from Bentota, or a 2½ hour journey from Colombo will bring you to...

Theja Weeratne Situated in the heart of Colombo 7, down Race Course Avenue, in a spacious bungalow, overlooking wide stretches...

Douglas Warner When my brother wrote to ask me to "look after two good friends while they are in Colombo...

Lucien Rajakarunanayake. A thousand miles of sunny, palmy, balmy, golden beach. This syrupy blurb of the travel brochure gives the...

Straw hats, bags and batik clothes hang in colourful array at these wayside stalls. The Galle Road runs south from...

Jennifer Henricus It was the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung, the discoverer of tea in 2,737 B. C., who first gave...

Sharmini Luther The twisting, narrow roads of Sri Lanka's central highlands snake through seemingly endless hillsides covered with tea -...

Thango Golf in Nuwara Eliya. In the bracing climate of tea-draped mountains. A course which has been an inviting challenge...

G V Scarne The first sight that greets an arriving passenger at Katunayake International Airport is a spectrum of bright...