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Sri Lanka has around 5,800 wild elephants wandering around its national parks. One of the best places to witness these gentle giants is Udawalawe National Park, which is home to about 600 ...

You have to pick your way through when you go inside St Anthony's Shrine – around broken stained glass, the coins blown out of the donation box, and the pools of water coloured with blood.

Recently, the New York Public Library released a cache of 180,000 digitized public domain images previously only available in its New York City locations, which included the above postcards from Sri ...

Many homes in Sri Lanka have a specific room used to store rice, which elephants can smell from miles away. Using their massive size, elephants can collapse walls onto sleeping families ...