The southern coast of Sri Lanka between Galle and Tangalle draws visitors reliably and deservedly. The beaches are good, the accommodation well-developed, and the whale watching off Mirissa is among the finest in the world. But the landscape that begins east of...
Everyone goes to Ella. And Ella is genuinely lovely the famous train bridge, the viewpoints, the cafes doing a brisk trade in banana pancakes. There is nothing wrong with Ella. But there is, just beyond it, another Uva Province. One that most travellers drive...
In 2025, Condé Nast Traveller readers ranked Sri Lanka seventh in the world for cuisine, placing it alongside France, Italy, and Thailand. That ranking surprised many people who associate Sri Lanka primarily with beaches and ancient ruins, and almost nobody who has...
Most travel writing treats Sri Lanka's buildings as backdrops to a wildlife encounter or a beach holiday, mentioned in passing rather than examined as the primary subject. This is a mistake. Sri Lanka's architectural record runs from prehistoric cave modification...
Sri Lanka's adventure tourism offering is considerably more developed than the island's mainstream reputation suggests, a genuine white-water river, a surf coast with a world-class point break, a kitesurfing lagoon rated among the best in Asia, and a highland trekking...
For most of the past forty years, Jaffna was absent from the Sri Lankan travel map entirely, the civil war that centred on the north making the peninsula inaccessible to visitors for a generation. What reopened when the conflict ended in 2009 was an almost unchanged...
Arugam Bay has absorbed most of the attention paid to Sri Lanka's east coast, its point break turning a small fishing village into a fixture of the international surf circuit and, in the process, drawing most of the available travel writing along with it. Trincomalee,...
For millions of Hindus, Sri Lanka is not simply an island south of India but the setting for some of the most consequential episodes in the Ramayana, the ancient epic in which King Ravana ruled from Lanka and held Sita captive before Rama's forces crossed the strait...
I still can't quite explain how a hotel manages to feel wild and cared for at the same time, but Jetwing Vil Uyana pulls it off before you've even reached your room. The path from reception winds over little wooden footbridges, past lotus filled ponds where...
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