If you are new to colonial-era Sri Lanka, begin with these. They cover the four things you need to get your bearings: the cities, the forts, the hill country and the railways that hold them together.
A Machine That Changed the Road motorcycles in Old Ceylon | There was a time in Ceylon when a motorcycle was not just a vehicle. It was a statement, a sou…
Read the storyCeylon planter life| The old photograph shows the sort of house we still associate with Ceylon’s planting districts: a long bungalow, tiled roof, several chi…
Read the storyFairlawn Falls and Dunsinane Falls | There are parts of Sri Lanka’s central highlands where the road still seems to belong more to the plantations than to th…
Read the storyThere are old houses in Sri Lanka where the people have long gone, yet traces of their lives seem to remain.Mount Franion at Muruthalawa is one of them. M…
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