Explore Sri Lanka

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...

Thango Golf in Nuwara Eliya. In the bracing climate of tea-draped mountains. A course which has been an inviting challenge to even the best pros in the game. It even...

G V Scarne The first sight that greets an arriving passenger at Katunayake International Airport is a spectrum of bright eye-catching advertisements for casinos. Colombo, fast becoming the Las Vegas...

Omar Alexander A personal recommendation from a friend is always one of the most reliable ways for selecting a new restaurant to try out. So when an associate mentioned that...

Located in downtown Colombo, the Hotel Inter­Continental is one of the city's landmarks and the first five-star hotel on the island. Although the hotel sports a number of quality food...

Theja Weeratne For a bird's-eye view of this resplendent tropical island - its rivers, mountains, green rice fields and myriad changing scenes of country and town - what better way...