February 28, 2024
Almost nothing in Sri Lanka splits our readers’ opinions more than this government run pinnawala elephant orphanage near Kegalle. Initially created to protect abandoned or orphaned elephants
February 28, 2024
With monkeys crashing through the trees, peacocks in their finest frocks and cunning leopards sliding like shadows through the undergrowth, Yala National Park (also known as Ruhunu) is the Jungle Book brought to glorious life.
February 28, 2024
Wilpattu National park is located 26 km north of Puttalam spanning from the northwest coast inland towards the ancient capital of Anuradhapura .
February 28, 2024
Dominated by the ancient Minneriya Tank, this park has plenty of scrub and light forest in its 88.9 sq km to provide shelter for its toque macaques, sambar deer, leopards and elephants
February 28, 2024
Nuwara Eliya is often referred to by the Sri Lankan tourist industry as ‘Little England’. And while the toy town ambience does have something of an English country village
February 28, 2024
Horton Plains national park is a beautiful, silent, strange world with some excellent hikes in the shadows of Sri Lanka’s second and third highest mountains, Kirigalpotta
February 28, 2024
Peradeniya botanical gardens were reserved exclusively for Kandyan Royalty. Today they’re the largest botanic gardens in Sri Lanka, Peradeniya-Orchid-Gardens-1248covering 60 hectares
February 28, 2024
Ella is a great place for walking. Most accommodation can give you a hand drawn map of local paths. Kick off with a stroll to what is locally dubbed Little Adam’s Peak.
February 28, 2024
The premier site of the Cultural Triangle, the soaring pillar of rock called Sigiriya doesn’t disappoint, even from afar. For history buff s it has associations with both king and clergy.