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Text & pix by Mahil Wijesinghe
Sri Lanka is embellished by countless Viharas and Devalas. Not...
This photographic essay is on Sri Lanka’s age-old relationship with...
I walked the streets of the beautiful hill country capital, the city...
At this time of the year, during the month of Esala (July/August)the...
One of the grand cultural festivals of the island, the annual Esala...
The mountains beckon. Anyone who has witnessed the resplendence of...
The Beira Lake is not an unfamiliar place to most of us, but very few...
It is an arduous pilgrimage to the sacred tamarind tree shrine of...
I looked around Vedasitikanda in the distance, and saw a glistering...
Pageantry, ceremony and ritual are part of everyday life in Sri Lanka...
Kurunegala, or to use its historical name - Hasthihaliyapura and the...
We had an opportunity on a two-day historical excursion when the...
One gloomy morning, I was in Negombo, the country’s fourth largest...
A few decades ago, the delightful seaside resort of Hambantota was a...
Near Ingiriya, in the Kalutara district, meet a community of monastic...
The sky was cloudy and not so bright in the morning when we drove...
This is the time of the year when nature is at her best and one...
A Buddhist temple with a tinge of British flavour! This may sound odd...
You don’t have to go to Europe to visit picturesque mountain towns...
Roadside shrines dedicated to the elephant-headed Lord Ganesh and...
Last month, Sri Lanka Railways added a new train named ‘Seethawaka...
Although I prefer to visit the less frequented sites around the...
Ratnapura, known as Minipura or the City of Gems is my adopted...
The ancient cultural concept of the Dagaba, Keth Yaya (paddy field)...
The main drip-ledged cave shrine in the lower terraceThe Maligatenna...
The sprawling Uda Walawe reservoir of Embilipitiya is one of the...
As we enter a new year, images of incredible courage and resolution...
The awe-inspiring 18th-Century Christ Church Warleigh in Dickoya is...
The sounds of birds in the wee hours in the jungle are soothing, as...
The Southern part of Sri Lanka is dotted with exquisite Buddhist...
‘Ambalama’ is a Sinhala word for a wayside rest-house. I first saw...
Dambadeniya is a majestic, isolated and ancient city off the...
It was a bright sunny morning when we visited Padavigampola and its...
A hamlet in the heart of rural Rambukkana, surrounded by paddy fields...
Mulgirigala (more commonly called Mulkirigala) is an imposing and...
If, like me, you are a lover of Sinhala songs, you will no doubt have...
The Galle city is home to a population of around 100,000. Easily...
Although I frequent remote places in the interior of the country, it...
The easiest way to get to Matara is by the Southern Expressway. The...
Imposing steep mountains clothed in a mantle of greenery with patches...
We set off in the wee hours of the morning to explore the not-so-well...
The sylvan surroundings of this ruined hermitage is also home to...
Looking for something different, something more adventurous,...
I visited the Maha Saman Devala with my family at an auspicious time...
The Kelani Ganga is not merely a river. It has holiness beyond...
On our journey, in search of the beauty of Trincomalee, we spent...
Amid the blue ocean and lagoon, stands this thousand-year-old...
Pageantry, ceremony and ritual are part of everyday life in Sri Lanka...
The nique Bodhigaraya (Bo-Tree enclosure) at the Padikemgala Raja...
Ifirst visited the Magul Maha Vihara in 1990 with my mother during...
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