Tag: Tradition

There's more to Sri Lanka than sun, sea and sand. The "round trip" is a tourist tradition in Sri Lanka. ...

Carol Aloysious For children, the festival is a time for lighting crackers. Religious festivals are the most popular, the most ...

The unique elephant lamp found at the site of the short dagaba. A hamlet in the mid country, 65km from ...

A mythical bird one of the carvings at Embekke temple. During the Kandyan era of our country's history, old traditions ...

Royston Ellis takes a look at the Maldives. Photos: Neel Jayantha When the jet circles over the islands of the ...

The Na tree has dense, evergreen foliage. In February 1986, a tree and a flower were chosen to add to ...

If you thought tea is an old fashioned drink, think again. A worldwide campaign is underway to wean the youngr ...

Ola pre-dates paper in Sri Lanka Florence Ratwatte There is no record of when conventional wood-pulp paper made its appearance ...

Returning on a visit to the land of his birth after a decade of practising surgery in "the sterile, impersonal ...

Details of the grand parade By Kalpana Isaac. Photos: Suresh de Silva For two weeks at the end of July ...