The Ramayana Trail in Sri Lanka: A Sacred Journey Through the Landscape of an Epic
The Ramayana – the ancient Sanskrit epic of Valmiki, composed over 2,500 years ago and containing seven books and approximately 24,000 verses – is one of the foundational texts of Hindu civilisation and one of the most widely read and revered narrative works in human history. Its influence extends across the entire South and Southeast […]
Stargazing in Sri Lanka: The Knuckles Mountains, Malayadi Lake and the Night Sky Nobody Talks About
There is a side of Sri Lanka that most travellers never really meet. It begins after the day has finished performing. After the temple bells have softened into the distance, after the safari jeeps have gone quiet, after the sea has turned from gold to black. The island changes after dark. The heat loosens. The […]
The Pekoe Trail: Sri Lanka’s Greatest Long-Distance Trek and What It Actually Feels Like to Walk It
There is a particular smell that comes with the Pekoe Trail in the early morning – the combination of dew-wet tea bush, highland forest, and cool mountain air that is specific to Sri Lanka’s central hills above 1,200 metres and that, once experienced, becomes one of those scent memories that can transport you back instantaneously […]