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Jeya Ratnam The National Zoological Gardens, a mile or two south of Colombo's city limits, is one of Asia's most famous zoos. The collection of 500 species of birds, mammals,...

Lal Anthonis For a little island only 140 by 270 miles, Sri Lanka has a fascinating variety of wild terrain. These 'jungles' cover about one tenth of the total area...

For the majority of tourists coming through Colombo, casinos are likely to be an afterthought. Mostly tourists come to Sri Lanka for a sunny holiday on the seemingly endless stretches...

Rodney Jonklaas The Dutch if you must know, decided to invade Ceylon, as it was then called, in the latter 16 hundreds. I am told they did this rather cautiously,...

Maureen Seneviratne The concept of a "Wishing Tree" that gives good things to those who need and deserve them is a mystical notion as old as man; and the "Tree...

Stanley Welgampola Sedately seated amidst the placid waters of Colombo's Beira Lake is an imposing structure of Oriental architecture which lends to its urban surroundings a quiet and serene beauty....

If a country's worth can be measured in terms of a healthy and active banking sector, then the prognosis must be good for Sri Lanka. In the last ten years,...

Maureen Seneviratna Lace the delicate, flimsy, gossamer dream of those who design bridal trousseaus. The lining and edging on furnishings of class. The mark of a fine mantilla over the...

Logan Beardsley The people begin to gather by Kandy's famous lake from morning. Whole families, sometimes the population of entire villages from near and distant hills, take up every available...

Mil Sansoni The Gardens have been romanticised by legend and fantasy as a queen's pleasure garden and, more factually perhaps, as a king's spice garden.  History tells us that there...