Explore Sri Lanka

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, reptiles and...

Kalpana Isaac Flying into Sri Lanka one of the first things that strike you is the lush greenery of the island. Most beautiful of this greenery, is the coconut palm...

By Logan Beardsley The Dutch Fort at Negombo which was later used by the British as a jail. Little did I realise that anywhere in the East, the passage of...

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...