Aquatic birds at the Zoo
Jeya Ratnam The National Zoological Gardens, a mile or two south of Colombo's city limits, is one of Asia's most ...
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Royal Botanical Gardens at Peradeniya
Mil Sansoni The Gardens have been romanticised by legend and fantasy as a queen's pleasure garden and, more factually perhaps, ...
Sidewalk Shows in Colombo
Shirani Rajapakse The rugged young man tanned a dark brown by the blazing sun sits down on the payment. He ...
Profitable Poker: The Game of Money
Virginia Diehl Mention the word "Poker" in America and it conjures up images of card games played in smoke-filled saloons ...
Fishing Hamlet to Tourist Resort Hikkaduwa through the Centuries
Maureen Seneviratne A tourist once proudly claimed that he had received a letter from home in Europe merely addressed to ...
Underwater Discoveries: From Diving Bell to Scuba
Anne Outwater People have been diving in Sri Lanka since at least 1864, when Eugene De Ransonnet, the Viennese painter ...
On the Trail of Tranquility
Rohan Maldeniya The water broadened out as we came to a stop by the riverside. On the river, watermen were ...
Mt Lavinia: Sun, Sea, Sand and a Governor’s Tryst
Vilma Wimaladasa Mount Lavinia just south of Colombo city is among the best known of Sri Lanka's many seaside resorts. ...
Sport Fishing In and Around Colombo
Fishing or angling is an interesting and absorbing pastime, with the added attraction of having fresh fish at table for ...
The Splendid Sport of Yacht Racing
Virginia Diehl In 1927 Sir Thomas Lipton gifted to the Royal Colombo Yacht Club (RCYC) the ornate and intricately crafted ...