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Galle, located on Sri Lanka’s southwest coast, beautifully combines colonial charm with tropical serenity, alongside a heritage that stretches back centuries. Famous for its iconic Galle Fort ...
Galle Fort in Sri Lanka is one of the largest and oldest European-era forts in South and Southeast Asia, built by the Portuguese in 1588 and later fortified by the Dutch before British occupation.
Galle Fort, a Unesco World Heritage site on the southwest coast of Sri Lanka, is a beautiful and well preserved gateway to the country’s colonial past and cultural richness. Built by the ...
Staged as part of Sri Lanka’s Galle Literary Festival, the historic town’s Art Trail offers exhibitions, open houses and artists’ tours to provide an ‘alternative experience’ for visitors.
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The Galle coastline in Sri Lanka is dotted with beautiful villages, hotels and resorts. Sielen Diva Hovering above with my drone, the coastline unravelled in breathtaking cinematic sweeps – each ...
Galle, with its sea breeze and cricketing soul, ... The crowd roared, the fort stood tall, and Sri Lanka’s reply to Bangladesh’s 495 looked solid. Then came the next batter.
Sri Lanka's Galle International Stadium will stage the two-test series against Australia in late January-early February next year, the country's cricket board said on Friday.
Opened by a group of British entrepreneurs in 1864, the property - said to be the oldest east of the Suez - beats such institutions as the Bangkok Oriental, Singapore’s Raffles Hotel and the Taj Mahal ...
Here, crumbling colonial-era homes sit in the shadow of shiny high rises, and a modern city is slowly emerging from reclaimed land just north of the sea-facing Galle Face Green. Some of Sri Lanka ...
ON a soft-dawn morning, I found myself ankle-deep in the briny embrace of the Indian Ocean, cameras in hand, along the defiantly picturesque Galle coastline in Sri Lanka. Here, the stilt fishermen ...