We last visited Yapahuwa in 2001, so a return visit was long overdue. Yapahuwa deserves to be much better known, but it is away from the main tourist routes, being located midway between Kurunegala and Puttalam, neither city much visited […]
Wet season in the dry zone. Paddy planting in full swing. We’ve been to Wilpattu many times – it’s our favourite national park as well as Sri Lanka’s largest – but never before via the back door from the side […]
Sri Lanka has been getting a bad press in the last few months. The media, who always focus on bad news, have reported the serious economic problems and the widespread public protests. But the protests only attract attention when violence […]
Life is very tough for Sri Lankans right now (September 2022). The economy is in freefall with rampant inflation and shortages of essential foods, medicines, petrol, diesel and cooking gas – although there have been some small improvements recently. A […]
We have a local as well as a global ‘bucket list’ Although we have lived in Sri Lanka for more than five years there are still lots of places we want to visit, some of them do-able in a day […]
Just before the country went into coronavirus lockdown we visited Tamarind Gardens, near Digana on the eastern side of Kandy. It’s a place we’d heard a lot about but not been to and the opportunity arose because they were holding […]
Public transport in Sri Lanka is cheap, but the railway network is very limited and on most lines there are few trains. Buses run everywhere but can be very crowded and uncomfortable. So it is no surprise that many visitors […]
Gal Oya National Park is in the east of Sri Lanka and until late January it was the only major national park we had never visited. And not just us – very few visitors make it there. The reason? It’s […]
A couple of years ago we were driving north on the A2 coast road between Hikkaduwa and Bentota when we passed a building advertising itself as a Puppet Museum. We’d already flashed past and had a deadline but made a […]
The Bawa brothers, Geoffrey and Bevis, are among Sri Lanka’s best known non-political figures alongside such people as the writer Michael Oondatje. Geoffrey, the younger brother, eventually became an architect whose works range from large hotels such as the Kandalama […]
