The country's most scenic train ride can also be undertaken from Nuwara Eliya to Ella, or you can head to Sri Lanka's dreamy mountain capital, Kandy, which is less than 50 miles away by road.

I picked up my ticket at Colombo’s Fort Railway Station and had just enough time to stop at the nearby Highland Milk Bar for a quick snack: a creamy chocolate milk from a glass bottle and a bag ...

Sri Lanka can be best described as south Asia in miniature form, filled with beaches, elephants, tea plantations, curries, ...

Hill view: A passenger train wends its way along tea-clad slopes. At Colombo's Fort Station, the trapped tropical humidity inside the building's interior, a tangle of silver-coated wrought and ...

Since colonial rulers had little to no knowledge about local construction materials, a Sri Lankan builder chipped in to help. Locals completed the engineering marvel using only bricks, stone and ...