In Tissamaharama (usually shortened to Tissa), eyes are automatically drawn upwards and outwards. Upwards to the tip of its huge, snowy-white dagoba and outwards, beyond the town’s confines, to nearby wildlife reserves crawling with creatures large and small. With its pretty lakeside
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Udawalawe National Park As one of the most popular tourist destinations in Sri Lanka, you’re probably thinking about visiting Udawalawe National Park. Framed by soaring highlands on its northern boundary, the Uda Walawe National Park is one of the world’s best places
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Bandarawela is a big town, situated in Badulla District, Uva Province, Sri Lanka, which is 28 km away from Badulla Town. Due to higher altitude, Bandarawela has a mild weather condition throughout the year hence; it is popular among the citizens to
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Angunawala in Central Province is located in Sri Lanka about 55 mi (or 88 km) north-east of Colombo, the country’s capital town. It used to be the home of the Angunawala Walauwa and the prominent Radala members of the Angunawala Family hailing
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Kilinochchi is the main town of Kilinochchi District, Northern Province of Sri Lanka. Kilinochchi is situated at the A9 road some 100km south-east of Jaffna Iranamadu Tank Iranamadu tank located within 8km from the city of Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka’s is one of
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Mahiyanganaya is a town situated close to the Mahaweli River in Badulla District, Uva Province of Sri Lanka. It is said that Gautama Buddha visited Mahiyanganaya on the Duruthu full moon poya day in order to settle a dispute arose between Yakkas
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If veneration takes you anywhere in Sri Lanka, then Kataragama should be your first place to visit. Frequented by thousands of devotees and pilgrims from various religious backgrounds, particularly Hindus and Buddhists, through the ages travelling here to receive blessings for a
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in the southern part of Sri Lanka, has recently become one of the fastest growing commercial cities. The newly constructed Hambantota Port, Hambantota Airport, International Cricket Stadium, Largest Outdoor Zoo (Ridiyagama Safari Park), Birds Park / Birds Research Center, Ranminithenna Tele Cinema
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From ancient times Ratnapura is known as the city of gems. The name comes from Sinhala and ‘ratna’ means ‘gems’ while ‘pura’ means city. There is no other reason to call this city ‘the city of gems’ other than that most of
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Lovely Arugam Bay, a moon-shaped curl of soft sand, is home to a famed point break that many regard as the best surf spot in the country. It’s a tiny place, with a population of a few hundred, and everything is dotted
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Trincomalee (Trinco) sits on one of the world’s finest natural harbors. This historic city is old almost beyond reckoning: it’s possibly the site of historic Gokana in the Mahavamsa (Great Chronicle), and its Shiva temple the site of Trikuta Hill in the
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Often referred to as ‘Little England’, this genteel highland community does have a rose-tinted, vaguely British-country-village feel to it, with its colonial-era bungalows, Tudor-style hotels, well-tended hedgerows and pretty gardens. Indeed, Nuwara Eliya was once was the favored cool-climate escape for the
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The ruins of Anuradhapura are one of South Asia’s most evocative sights. The sprawling complex contains a rich collection of archaeological and architectural wonders: enormous dagobas (brick stupas), ancient pools and crumbling temples, built during Anuradhapura’s thousand years of rule over Sri
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