About a three hour bus journey away from the beaches is the ancient city ruins of Anuradhapura. The main town these days isn’t much to look at except for the […]

The North east of Sri Lanka is the sort of place guide books recommend to visit before it changes. Hit by the long running civil war and also facing the […]

Heading north out of Kandy I entered the ‘Cultural Triangle’ of the ancient cities of Anuradhapura, Sigiriya and Polunawarra. Around 1500 years ago these were the administrative centre of the […]

Sri Lanka for the tourist is a little powerhouse – trekking in hill country, tea plantations, colonial forts, surfing, ancient cities, meditation and of course endless deserted beaches. Apart from the […]

Getting to the Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Centre involved two bone-rattling tuk tuk rides, one broke down before the next one delivered me to the centre but not before my backpack had […]

There are only two direct buses from Galle to Ella in the hill country, one at 5am and another at the only slightly better time of 6am. This was a […]

Arriving in Sri Lanka was definitely a change of gears from Delhi – where was everyone for starters? Spending a month in India had me accustomed to people, noise, traffic, […]