A sacred city of ancient temples, ruined dagobas, enormous monuments and the oldest tree in the world was to be our first stop in ‘Sri Lanka’s cultural triangle’, as it has become known. Forming the three main points of the triangle are Anuradhapura, Pollanaruwa and...
Sri Lanka’s southern coast is lined with beautiful, tropical paradise beaches, some unspoiled and some more spoilt. Each of Sri Lanka’s southern beaches caters to a different crowd, type of traveller and/or budget but all do check the box of clean sands, turquoise...
Colombo, Sri Lanka’s capital city is located about two thirds of the way down the country’s west coast. With a population of two and a half million people, it is by far the most populated city in the country, other major cities such as Negombo, Kandy and Jaffna...
Built in the seventeenth century, Galle Fort was a major port for boats travelling between Europe and Asia and acted as the main port of Sri Lanka for more than two hundred years eventually becoming a secondary harbour after the development of breakwaters in Colombo’s...
With just less than two weeks left on our six-month Indian visa, we decided to spend our time cooling off in the hills of the Western Ghats. Comprising of a ridge of mountains stretching all the way from southern Tamil Nadu to just north of Mumbai, the Western Ghats...
by Brian Barry | Last updated Aug 6, 2018 | Published on May 13, 2013 | 1 comment
Having spent a total of almost six weeks at different beaches along India’s west coast we were ready to jump back in, head first to ‘real India’ and we were excited at the prospect. Madurai is one of the oldest cities in India and is dominated by the mind-blowing Sri...
Known as the ‘Varanasi of the south’, Rameswaram is a much more interesting alternative to Kanyakumari as far as southern points go. While Kanyakumari is the geographical southern most tip of the country, Rameswaram is the spiritual tip and marks the point where India...
India’s southern most point, Kanyakumari or Cape Comorin as it’s also known, is a special place for Indian’s and foreign visitors alike. For Indian visitors the end of the road is marked by a number of memorials, temples and shrines which are of equal interest to the...
