Explore Sri Lanka

Lt. Col K. M. S. Perera For the convenience and pleasurable shopping of the estimated one point two million passengers who use the Katunayake International Airport, are two amply stocked...

A view of the old Galle Face Walk. The premises of the old Colombo Club which now houses the Club Colombo is seen at extreme right. The quaint elliptical building...

Renuka JeyaRaj If the streets were lined with snow and the children playing with snow men a westerner would feel completely at home in Colombo during Christmas time. All other...

Theja Weeratne Driving through the provincial highways in Sri Lanka you will see local handicrafts displayed in wayside stalls, arranged to catch the eye of the traveller. Basket and cane...

A view of the Hotel Triton at Ahungalla. Among the many things to do to ensure a trouble-free holiday, the first is choosing a good travel agency, Once this is done...

Lucien Rajakarunanayake The blurbs and brochures speak much of the ancient cities of Sri Lanka. A visitor to the island's North Central Dry Zone which was the seat of the...

Swarnamali Seneviratne At the Orchid House. Photo - Fred R. Malvenna.  The Henerathgoda Botanical Gardens or Gampaha Gardens as it is better known is the Botanical Gardens situated closest to Colombo...

Colombo offers many opportunities for recreation. There are facilities in the city for Golf, Tennis, Squash. Swimming, Rowing, Cricket, Billiards and Snooker among other recreational activities. Cricket is the favourite sport...

Maureen Seneviratne A tourist once proudly claimed that he had received a letter from home in Europe merely addressed to him by name at the postal address "Hikkaduwa". Yet Hikkaduwa...

By Fred R Malvenna Leaving Colombo at midnight we were at the Yala National Park by 5 a.m. Having completed the formalities of filling forms and paying Park fees we...