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Ancient Cities Anuradhapura The best known of Sri Lanka's ancient cities, it was the capital of the island for more than a thousand years from the 5th Century B.C. A...

Harris N.de Lanerolle As dawn breaks over the City of Colombo, anglers make their way to the breakwater of the Colombo Harbour for several hours of good fishing. All along...

Anura Thanthilage They float down like streaks of glistening cloud from mountains whose peaks are lost in thick clouds. Waterfalls. Those rushing, falling, tumbling, roaring cascades of water which cannot...

Rodney Jonklas Over most of the gluttonous globe, all sorts of chutneys, pickles and sambols, especially the varieties you can keep for long periods, add zest to the bland food. ...

(The Honourable Minister of Tourism) Sri Lanka– the name conjures up images of the exotic East, sun-kissed beaches, emerald seas and a warm, hospitable people. This island for the last...

A. Felician Fernando Boats on the beach (Ranjith Senaweera). The catamaran has a somewhat adventurous and romantic sound about it. Actually, the name is an anglicization of the composite Tamil...

The distinctive idiom of traditional Sri I.ankan culture is dance and music. In their various configurations, dance and music are organically woven into the colourful folk-ways, rites, rituals. formal productive...

Maureen Seneviratne Resthouse from the Dutch Resthuys: the meaning and significance of which needs no elaboration in any language. But in their beginnings, in the century-long peace, however tenuous, that...

Chitra Ranawake The crack of a whip cuts across the stillness of the Kandy Lake. It is followed by the throbbing of drums and the distant wail of wind instruments....

Maureen Seneviratne I can see it to this day, that radiant panorama that wilderness of rich color that incomparable dissolving view of harmonious tints, and lithe half-covered forms, and beautiful...