Sri Lanka is one of the safest places to visit in the world. Not just in the developing/majority world but the whole world! This may seem a strange statement to make about a country which recently experienced Asia’s longest civil […]
If you’re reading this you’ve probably seen all the hype about how you absolutely must experience the joys of travelling by train in the hill country. And there is no doubt that the line from Kandy to Badulla, and especially […]
The Bogambara area of central Kandy is home to a new bus station, a long-standing sports stadium and, oldest of all, the Bogambara prison. Opened in 1876 and closed in 2013 the huge complex was designed to mimic the Bastille […]
Until the other day Kotmale was mostly known to me as a brand of dairy products. Sure, I knew it was a place, and roughly where – off the Kandy to Nuwara Eliya road on the right. And that it […]
Meenawatte is the estate where Sally lived from the age of ten to thirteen (and also as a baby, but of course she has no memory of that). Her father didn’t plant on the estate; by then he was a […]
Sri Lankan tourism is becoming a victim of its own success. 2.2 million visitors last year and voted best destination for 2019 by Lonely Planet is great news for the economy, but the powers that be are playing catch-up. The administrative arrangements, […]
Sinhala and Tamil New Year this year meshed with Easter weekend and a group of us went for a walk in the area around Jungle Tide on Easter Sunday, the day after New Year. Half way round our circular route […]
We recently took a trip up to Jaffna and the north of Sri Lanka. I’d never been before – too dangerous during the war and since then we’ve been too preoccupied with getting Jungle Tide running properly to do much […]
