Aarunya is close to endless hiking opportunities within the UNESCO-listed Knuckles Mountain Range, and is less than an hour away from Sri Lanka’s cultural capital, Kandy. It means it’s the ...

After a towering Hindu temple marks our arrival at Hatton station, with a kaleidoscope of colours above the tin-roofed houses ... a much-loved travel stop. Sri Lanka produces more than 300 ...

Heavy clouds rolled overhead, clearing out the day’s humidity in Sri Lanka’s central highlands ... I boarded a three-hour train to the ancient city of Kandy, where the trail starts.

was built to contain that famous relic of Buddha brought to Sri Lanka for safety about 311. In 1592 the town became the capital of Ceylon, and the king's palace was built about the year 1600. Kandy ...

This is where, 12 miles south of Kandy, my journey along the new Pekoe Trail — Sri Lanka’s first long-distance ... an organic farm and guest house that’s producing hand-rolled teas for ...

KANDY - Thousands of pilgrims camped overnight outside Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist temple ... as the schools have all been repurposed to house the large number of security forces sent to the ...