The motor is fired up and we head for one of the 14 islands lining a beautiful lagoon in the Kalpitiya region of western Sri Lanka. The water is pale blue-green; the heat, even early in the ...

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka – Some 215 kilometers (130 miles) south of Colombo in the Hambantota district lies a unique, infrequently travelled, bird-watching location: Lunama and Kalametiya. A quaint ...

The remote and beautiful Kalpitiya lagoon is set to be developed as a tourist attraction but there are concerns from the fishermen who live there, the BBC's Charles Haviland reports.