Explore Sri Lanka

Piarinna De Lima Water-skiing is fun and full of excitement  Most foreign travellers associate this Indian Ocean isle with sun-swept beaches, lush forests, gushing waterfalls, tea-carpeted hills, rich cultural sites...

Rodney Jonklas Although we are as tropical as can be, the spirit of Christmas begins to manifest itself even before December. Christmas is very special for us all, although we...

Theja Weeratne The name "LIPTON" is synonymous with Good Tea. "Lipton's Tea Garden" - as Ceylon was known in the 19th Century became a household word to the British who...

An hour's drive further down Galle Road from Bentota, or a 2½ hour journey from Colombo will bring you to the holiday hamlet of Hikkaduwa, long a favourite destination for...

Theja Weeratne Situated in the heart of Colombo 7, down Race Course Avenue, in a spacious bungalow, overlooking wide stretches of well-manicured green lawns, flowering trees, and neatly laid out...

Douglas Warner When my brother wrote to ask me to "look after two good friends while they are in Colombo for the first time," I didn't know what to do...

Lucien Rajakarunanayake. A thousand miles of sunny, palmy, balmy, golden beach. This syrupy blurb of the travel brochure gives the impression that it is the thousand miles which make the...

Straw hats, bags and batik clothes hang in colourful array at these wayside stalls. The Galle Road runs south from Colombo to Galle with the never ending view of the...

Jennifer Henricus It was the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung, the discoverer of tea in 2,737 B. C., who first gave voice to the praises of this "hot" beverage. So enthralled...

Sharmini Luther The twisting, narrow roads of Sri Lanka's central highlands snake through seemingly endless hillsides covered with tea - over half a million acres of it. Stiff, short-cropped tea...