Everything to know before you go - Sri Lanka lures travellers with an impressive array: wildlife, history, exceptional food, surfing hotspots and beaches ...

Travellers are flocking to Sri Lanka’s Cultural Triangle, home to frolicking monkeys, giant Buddha statues and 1,500-year-old palaces. ... Uncovering the sunken relics of an ancient city.

For thousands of years, the golden kingdom of Lanka described in the Ramayana has captured people’s imaginations. It was said ...

Ancient City of Sigiriya (Sri Lanka) ICOMOS monitoring missions to these three World Heritage sites in Sri Lanka were undertaken in November December 1994. The final and comprehensive report of this ...

As I freewheel around the ancient city, from which Sri Lanka was ruled for 1000 years, I'm not merely dwarfed by the physical size of the sprawling metropolis but by the scale of the ambition ...

Anuradhapura, established in the 4th century BCE, was Sri Lanka’s capital for over 1,300 years. ... Today, the ancient city of Anuradhapura is home to several ancient stupas, ...

Sigiriya, an ancient rock fortress and former royal palace, is one of Sri Lanka's most visited and best-known sights, attracting just more than one million visitors in 2019.

Since ancient times, Sri Lanka has served as a major maritime junction for cargo being moved across the Eurasian landmass, which is to be enhanced by China's plan to turn the country into a major ...

World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

ANURADHAPURA, SRI LANKA—A 2,000-year-old hospital has been discovered in Sri Lanka’s ancient city of Anuradhapura, near the Thuparama Dagoba, which dates to the third century B.C. and is said ...