Sri Lanka Travel Blog

The Veddas, Sri Lanka’s indigenous people: their origins, language, traditional way of life, the three regional groups and their habitat in the dry-zone forests.

The Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo: its history, its setting beside Beira Lake, the Nawam Perahara and the Vesak festival it organizes every year.

How Sri Lanka’s handloom tradition began, from the legend of Prince Vijaya to the weavers who still make cloth on their looms today.

Sinharaja is a national park and biodiversity hotspot in Sri Lanka, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site and home to many endemic species.

Sri Lanka’s eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites explained, from Anuradhapura, Dambulla and Galle Fort to Kandy, Polonnaruwa, Sigiriya, Adam’s Peak and the Sinharaja rainforest.

Adam’s Peak, Mount Pedro, the Knuckles Range and Horton Plains: the best mountains of Sri Lanka’s hill country, with tea estates, waterfalls and mist-covered peaks.