IT WAS THE MOUNTAIN of a million yawns. All over the flagstone stairway, people slumbered in various uncomfortable positions. Some huddled in groups, their heads on their arms. Others sat on benches, ...

Sri Pada is not merely a scenic mountain or a tourism asset; it is one of Sri Lanka’s most sacred living landscapes and among its most significant biodiversity strongholds. Anchored by the Peak ...

On Vesak Poya, the pilgrimage season to Sri Pada ended with the sacred artefacts and statues placed on the summit for the pilgrimage season, brought down in a procession, according to tradition. Along ...

The sun has just set behind the walls of Galle, Sri Lanka, and the muezzin of the Fort Meeran mosque in the old part of the town starts his chant. The All Saints Church, one of the town's historical ...

Sri Pada will continue to remain within the Ratnapura District and under no circumstances would it be administered by the Nuwara Eliya District despite the carving out of three new pradeshiya sabhas ...

Malaka Rodrigo reports on “paths to the Peak”, a photographic odyssey to Sri Pada by Ian Lockwood As the Sri Pada pilgrimage season ended on Vesak, Ian Lockwood’s exhibition of photographs - a ...

A proposal had been made to construct a helicopter landing pad several kilometers below the Maha Maluwa of Sri Pada (summit) to land helicopters of VIPs and to airlift visitors who fall sick while ...

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When they weren’t climbing Sri Pada or conversing with kings, the earliest foreign travellers to Sri Lanka were dwelling on gems, rubies, topazes, sapphires, and moonstones. From Pliny and Cosmas to ...