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Text and pix Mahil Wijesinghe
Mahiyanganaya, located in the Badulla district in Uva Province, is not ideal tourist destination. Yet, it has many historical and religiously important places of interest that are worth visiting. Though the area predominately known for Veddah or Adhivasi population, an indigenous group of people believed to be the original inhabitants of the island, Mahiyanganaya also has...
Many parts of Negombo have a sizable Christian population. Duwa is a tiny island, south of the calm mangrove-fringed lagoon – but now connected to the mainland by a causeway. The population of this island is 3,500, and the area is 26 acres in extent. It is a teeming fishing colony, adjacent to Negombo, where inhabitants are Catholics and fishermen by profession.
I visited...
I thought there was nothing to see in Palindanuwara. But this small wooded village pushed into obscurity sits on the edge of a story brimming with historical significance – one that dates back to the period of Prince Veediya Bandara.
Our destination is the historic Pelada Raja MahaViharaya in Palindanuwara in the Palindanuwara Divisional Secretariat area. This wooded...
Annually, during a ten-day period in July or August, elephants from all parts of the country flock to the premises of the Sri Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Sacred Tooth) in Kandy to perform specific duties in the religious procession and to venerate the Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha. Every evening elephants walk through the streets of Kandy in a series of great...
Trincomalee and its suburbs were just as exotic as I had imagined. Under a brilliant blue sky, people in colourful costumes and prostrating pilgrims jostled with selfie-obsessed local tourists. The highlight of our tour on our way to Trincomalee, after Seruvila, was the visit to Lanka Patuna, a once forgotten ancient Buddhist site on the edge of a lagoon facing the Indian...
Text and pix Mahil Wijesinghe
I have been eyeing a small cell in the car park of Ceylinco Building at Echelon Square, bordering Fort’s Clock Tower whenever I...
The gods and goddesses of Sri Lanka, known as Deviyo, are believed to have attained such status through merit in their past human...
Trincomalee and its suburbs were just as exotic as I had imagined. Under a brilliant blue sky, people in colourful costumes and...
The magnificent man-made Kandy Lake, the ‘Milky Sea’ is at the heart of the hill country town of Kandy, ringed by a leafy...
Ussangoda, is a small National Park in the deep South with reddish soil, an enchanting beach and a fascinating mystery of nature...
My earliest memory of betel leaves date back to my childhood and as a student of the primary school. Just after the auspicious...