You can fly to this island nation filled with historic sites for less than £350, and get a hotel room for just £11 a night.

The Director General of the Department of Archaeology, Professor D. Thusitha Mendis, has announced plans to remove ...

Sri Lanka can be best described as south Asia in miniature form, filled with beaches, elephants, tea plantations, curries, sacred rituals, colourful ...

Sri Lanka’s tourism sector has reached a major sustainability milestone, with Sigiriya being officially declared as the country’s first sustainable destination. ..

If the call of sandy beaches, lush greenery, and cultural richness stirs your soul, then Sri Lanka deserves a spot on your ...

Sri Lanka's best cultural experiences - Planning a trip to the tropical island country of the moment? Beverley Watts has your guide to the unmissable historic sites, iconic architecture and wonderful ...

Sri Lanka’s Sigiriya has been crowned the world’s most welcoming city for 2025 by Booking.com, based on over 360 million of its verified customer reviews. As part of the thirteenth edition of the ...

Near the city of Dambulla, in the central province of Sri Lanka, on a flat top of a monolithic rock 180 meters high that rises above the jungle and dominates the environment, is an ancient city.

The original of these poems were written during the 8th, 9th, and 10th Centuries on the curving wall half-way up the rock fortress of Sigiriya in the central province of Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka’s oldest graffiti verifies this. Incised in tiny pearl-like script into the so-called ‘Mirror Wall,’ beneath the frescoes pocket, are prose and poems more than a1,000- years-old.