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Portuguese adventurer Laurenco de Almeida was en route to the Maldive Islands in 1505, when he lost his way. A faulty compass and strong winds drove him to the trading...

Raine Amarasinghe Some of the many leopard cubs at the Dehiwela zoo. If in keeping with the norms of zoological gardens the world over only a pair of an exotic...

Theja Weeratne The shrine room of the temple showing the statue of the reclining Buddha, with the sapphire eyes, and another statue of a seated Buddha also with the glow...

Jeya Ratnam "Six months labour of the potter is one stroke to the man-with the cudgel"(Old Sinhalese proverb) Practiced hands mould the shape of a pot on the wheel.  The art...

The flavour of a tea plantation Sharmini Luther The panorama of tea in Sri Lanka's hill country. The twisting, narrow roads of Sri Lanka's cen­tral highlands snake through seemingly end­less...

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

Wijeratne Muhandiram The main Kandy Perahera comprises five separate Peraheras from the Dalada Maliga­wa, the Natha Devale, Maha Vishnu Devale, Kataragama Devale and Pattini Devale in that order. The Devales...

Lal Anthonis Adult, adolescents and a baby elephant at Lahugala. My two buddies, Mervyn, Chandima and I had left Colombo at 4 a.m. and long before we reached our destination,...

Rugby is a popular spectator sport in Colombo. Looking for excitement – an action-packed evening followed by winning, dining, fun and maybe dancing? Then the best place to be dining,...

Stanley Welgampola The marble image of the reclining Buddha. and the stylised footprint of the Buddha at the entrance to the Seemamalaka Sedately seated amidst the placid waters of Colombo's...