If you look at satellite imagery, you will notice a faint hint of a connecting strip between India and Sri Lanka. This is Adam's Bridge, also known as Ram's Bridge or Ram Setu (राम सेतु), a vast chain ...

The terrace garden sees a series of successive terraces on boulder strewn slopes. Amazingly, vestigial remains of such ...

The story of Sri Lanka's most beloved sweetener starts with the kithul,or fishtail, palm tree and a tapper, like 58-year-old Amuvita Gamage Dayasena. The slightly built farmer sharpens his knife on ...

In rural village communities in Sri Lanka, kithul madeema, or kithul tapping, is a traditional method of collecting sap from the kithul tree, a tall palm found in forests and home gardens. The process ...

Between the years 629 and 645 AD the famous Chinese monk Xuanzang traveled through Central Asia and India to visit Buddhist sacred places, learn from Indian teachers and collect copies of Buddhist ...

“Far across the southern seas stood a golden city, guarded by demons and ruled by one who defied even the gods.” That’s how ancient texts describe Lanka — the grand kingdom of Ravana, the ten-headed ...

Small-sized water storage is a key source of resilience for rural communities in many parts of the world. Sri Lanka’s tank cascade system is an ancient means of storing water in the country’s dry zone ...

Sri Lanka is home to eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites, some of Asia's best wildlife parks, scenic train journeys and a food culture that keeps visitors coming back for more.