Walk the Dutch ramparts at dusk. A heritage travel publication exploring the colonial-era places, stories and landscapes that still shape the island today.
A handful of long reads from the archive — forts, hotels, hill country and the streets of the colonial capital.
Six routes through Old Ceylon — pick the one that calls. Cities, forts, tea country, railways, hotels and civic buildings.
Curated long-reads — read in order, or pick the one that catches your eye. The numbered spread updates each season.
From the western harbour to the eastern fort, the southern walls to the upcountry bungalows — the island laid out like an old travel map.
A short reading list to get your bearings — what colonial Sri Lanka actually was, where to look for it today and how to plan a trip around the heritage that still stands.
Forts, hotels, railways, tea estates, churches, post offices and the small civic furniture of a colonial century.
Place-based, researched, image-led. We open archives, walk streets, look up at cornices.
Top-ten lists, political polemic, academic distance. We are travel writers first.
Slow travellers, architecture readers, returning diaspora, anyone curious about Old Ceylon.
The colonial chapters are still in plain sight — the forts, the railway, the bungalows, the post office clocks. Pack light. Walk slow.
