Tamarind Gardens Homestay is excited to share its new initiative that promises to make guests’ visits even more enriching by providing deeper connections to local culture and farming practices.

UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee has inscribed Kithul Madeema — the ancient art of kithul tapping — onto its ...

A new era of nature and garden tourism in Sri Lanka was officially launched yesterday with the unveiling of acclaimed British travel writer Juliet Coombe’s latest book, Brief Garden by Bevis Bawa—a ...

Home gardening has boomed in Sri Lanka as residents under lockdown look to grow their own fresh fruits and vegetables. The government, which has championed home gardening in the past, launched a ...

Residents of the rural Sri Lankan village of Pitekele relied on the nearby rainforest as a source of food, fuel, fiber and medicine for generations, until it was made into a park. The forest’s new ...

From left: A sitting room at No. 11, Geoffrey Bawa's former home in Colombo; Bawa at work in 1996. From the outside, the Colombo house of Geoffrey Bawa, the late Sri Lankan architect and pioneer of ...

The rain has become a hassle for most Sri Lankans these days, but keep an eye on your garden as these damp conditions could wake up sleeping mushroom beauties. “Sri Lanka has very good mushroom ...

Sri Lanka’s traditional practice of Kithul Madeema/Kithul Kapeema, an ancient indigenous technology for extracting sap from ...