TRAVEL SNAPPY

East of Ella, the landscape sheds its postcard prettiness and turns serious. The mountains press...

I didn’t arrive in Gal Oya with a checklist. I arrived with dust on my shoes, the smell of...

The gate swings open onto a driveway lined with palms, and before I've even stepped out of the car...

Salt is in the air the moment you step out of the car. It clings to the frangipani, drifts through...

The shutters on the window wouldn't quite close properly. They were old, heavy, Dutch-era timber,...

Trincomalee has one of the finest natural harbours in the world. That's not local boosterism, it's...