The National Zoological Gardens, a mile or two south of Colombo's city limits is one of Asia's most famous zoos....

Kalpana Isaac Flying into Sri Lanka one of the first things that strike you is the lush greenery of the...

By Logan Beardsley The Dutch Fort at Negombo which was later used by the British as a jail. Little did...

Portuguese adventurer Laurenco de Almeida was en route to the Maldive Islands in 1505, when he lost his way. A...

Raine Amarasinghe Some of the many leopard cubs at the Dehiwela zoo. If in keeping with the norms of zoological...

Theja Weeratne The shrine room of the temple showing the statue of the reclining Buddha, with the sapphire eyes, and...

Jeya Ratnam "Six months labour of the potter is one stroke to the man-with the cudgel"(Old Sinhalese proverb) Practiced hands...

The flavour of a tea plantation Sharmini Luther The panorama of tea in Sri Lanka's hill country. The twisting, narrow...

M B Dassanayake Kandy's Dalada Maligawa - the temple of the sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha, with the octagon...

Wijeratne Muhandiram The main Kandy Perahera comprises five separate Peraheras from the Dalada Maliga­wa, the Natha Devale, Maha Vishnu Devale,...