Dalawella is a lagoon protected by an offshore reef in front of Wijeya Beach Wild Indian Ocean-washed beaches define Sri Lanka’s 830-mile coastline. Southern beaches tend to be livelier and more ...

Every year, my 14-year-old son, Luca, and I share a tradition. Around the time of his birthday, in February, we take an extended mother-and-son trip. The brief is that it has to be something ...

You could make the ‘pearl of the Indian Ocean’ your new home in 2026. View on euronews ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sipping ice-cold drinks on the lawn of one of the oldest hotels in Asia, tourists watch the sun slip down behind the Indian Ocean. White-coated waiters scoot from table to table ...

Sipping fresh coconut water while sunbathing on deserted Hikkaduwa beach, Alexi Konchayenko, a sports trainer from Ukraine, struck a stoical note. Bomb blasts can happen “anywhere, anytime,” he said, ...

To hear Renton de Alwis tell it, you’d think Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war was as good as over. As Tamil Tigers and government soldiers slog on in a war that has stretched 18 years, the vast chairman ...