“Slave Island contained a mud village, an excellent parade ground and two gentlemen’s villas. One of these had been built by the Dutch as a Freemason’s Lodge” – Century volume of Colombo Municip ...
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Aug 22, 2015
Sri Lanka prides itself on having a great many temples. Like churches in Europe, they’re part and parcel of the communities all over the island, and where there is a village one is almost guaranteed t ...
I will be brief. It is 2AM and only 4 hours away of our wake up call. And, just in case you haven’t been here before, I am NOT a morning person so it won’t be easy to wake up. At all. Anyway, here is ...
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Jan 8, 2015
When I first told a friend I was going to Sri Lanka, her first question was Are you going to climb that rock? That rock, she was referring to is called Sigiriya Rock, or Lion Rock. It’s the most visit ...
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Nov 26, 2014
Sri Lanka is famous for its beaches, its tea growing hill country scenery, its ruins of ancient cities and its garden city of Colombo. It also has many little known attractions that are delightful to ...
Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts in their continuous destination promotion initiatives, partnered with SriLankan Airlines in coordinating an impactful promotional campaign for Sri Lanka at the Miss Unive ...
What are the attractions that are most popular with visitors to Sri Lanka, apart from the beaches? We conducted an informal survey among tourists and tourist drivers and discovered these are the top f ...
If you are planning your first visit to Sri Lanka, this is a sensible question because this is a country with so many diverse attractions. Obviously a lot will depend on whether you are young and fit ...
In the 1867, the fortunes of British-governed Ceylon, as Sri Lanka was then known, were enhanced by the building of the first railway track to Kandy and the planting near Kandy that same year of the f ...
Atop the famous Dambulu-gala (Rock of Dambulla) is perched the Dambulla Raja Maha Vihara that give the rock and the surroundings its character. Within the caves of this temple one can find ancient mur ...
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Mar 31, 2014
