Tag: Leisure

Shirani Rajapakse A cool relaxed walk in the daytime is certainly not all that tempting, specially with the ever present ...

B C Perera Thai and African jungles, Burmese villages, Indian kingdoms, montane tea plantations, and the depths of the Great ...

Maureen Seneviratne The art of puppetry in Sri Lanka has a long tradition. The mechanics of the art were known ...

Pinnawela is a quiet little village in typical countryside lying by the side of the river Maha Oya which never ...

Shirani Rajapakse Do you by any chance happen to be a sports fan? Better still a water sports fan. If ...

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

Sharmini Luther Grand Hotel. Nuwara Eliya. British nostalgia lingers. Photo : Ceylon Tourist Board. When planning your travels around Sri ...

Swarnamali Seneviratne Aerial view of Sigiriya rock. with the ruins of the palace. Photo: Fred R Malvenna Of all the ...

Rohan Maldeniya It was a clear, cold and crisp morning as we wound up the road higher into the misty mountains. ...

Portuguese adventurer Laurenco de Almeida was en route to the Maldive Islands in 1505, when he lost his way. A ...