If you are new to colonial-era Sri Lanka, begin with these. They cover the four things you need to get your bearings: the cities, the forts, the hill country and the railways that hold them together.
When Tea Needed Something Beside It There was a time when tea was rarely served on its own. A pot would arrive at the table, usually strong and dark, …
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A Road Without a Signboard Helboda Cart Road There are places in the hill country that are easy to miss because nobody has put up a board telling you to…
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A House Built Around the Weather Old Ceylon bungalows | There was a time when a house in Ceylon was built around the weather rather than against it. Befor…
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Forgotten tea estate bungalows | Beyond the railway stations, viewpoints and neatly clipped tea fields of Sri Lanka’s hill country, another landscape survive…
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