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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...

Vilma Wimaladasa Serendib, Taprobane, Ceilao, Ceylon and now Sri Lanka ... call it by any name but it will, as since times long ago, smell as sweet, as "its spi­cy-wooded...

Part of the Buffet at the Meridien 's Cafe Fleuri. It is a great escape into the Galadari Meridien's Cafe Fleuri. One often gets used to the advertisers' blurbs about...

Renuka JeyaRaj A Sri Lankan Sinhalese bride, wearing the typical gold jewellery that Sea Street is famous for.Photo: Prasanna Hennayake "Sunday Times" The entrance to Sea Street, from Colombo's busy...

Theja Weeratne Buddhist devotees climb the steps of the Kelaniya Vihara to worship. Photo: Pushpakumarn Matugama The most important centre of faith for Buddhists in Colombo and its suburbs is...