Tag: Leisure

Jeya Ratnam The National Zoological Gardens, a mile or two south of Colombo's city limits, is one of Asia's most ...

Mil Sansoni The Gardens have been romanticised by legend and fantasy as a queen's pleasure garden and, more factually perhaps, ...

Shirani Rajapakse The rugged young man tanned a dark brown by the blazing sun sits down on the payment. He ...

Virginia Diehl Mention the word "Poker" in America and it conjures up images of card games played in smoke-filled saloons ...

Maureen Seneviratne A tourist once proudly claimed that he had received a letter from home in Europe merely addressed to ...

Anne Outwater People have been diving in Sri Lanka since at least 1864, when Eugene De Ransonnet, the Viennese painter ...

Rohan Maldeniya The water broadened out as we came to a stop by the riverside. On the river, watermen were ...

Vilma Wimaladasa Mount Lavinia just south of Colombo city is among the best known of Sri Lanka's many seaside resorts. ...

Fishing or angling is an interesting and absorbing pastime, with the added attraction of having fresh fish at table for ...

Virginia Diehl In 1927 Sir Thomas Lipton gifted to the Royal Colombo Yacht Club (RCYC) the ornate and intricately crafted ...