Feature
Sri Lanka Bird Wing - National Butterfly
Sri Lanka's largest attractive butterfly - the "Sri Lanka Bird Wing" (Troides darsius) which is endemic to Sri Lanka has been declared as the National Butterfly under the recommendations of the Butterfly Expert Group established under the Environment and Natural Resources Ministry through its Butterfly Conservation Action Plan.
Property of the Month
2.5 Acres of Uniqueness in Mawella
Exceptional, distinctive, unique... three words that describe this stunning property located on the Mawella beach. Facing the ocean from two directions, one from the Mawella beach side which is a great swimmable beach, and on the other the land slopes down to a rocky shore, which makes the site very private.
Villa of the Month
Indisch
A newly-built, luxury villa on the south coast in the small village of Ahangama, famous for its stilt fishermen, Indisch (with direct beach access) raises the bar in terms of comfort and service. With a chef and sous-chef in the kitchen, meals become feasts and the desire to venture out to the nearby restaurants in the historic town of Galle diminishes.
This Month's Top Story
Five years of development - Galle district, new vistas for Galle
by Shirajiv Sirimane
The Southern Province which was virtually ignored for several decades has now reawakened and would be one of the most developed districts in the country in the new millennium. Galle first came to limelight when Portuguese landed in 1505. A fort and a lighthouse were built later. A harbour and an airport at Koggala were built during subsequent years.
Book of the Month
‘Love’ Triangle with ‘Sri Lanka's other half’
OK, so when it comes to travel these days everyone's been everywhere and seen everything, right? Wrong. Pick up a copy of Sri Lanka's Other Half, a ground-breaking guidebook published recently, and you'll be catapulted into a whole new world of adventure.
Recipe of the Month
Sri Lankan fare is often mistaken for yet another Indian regional cuisine. Yet to the culinary explorer, Sri Lankan Food is as intriguing and unique as the many other customs of this island paradise. In spite of its tiny size, Sri Lanka boasts an amazing variety of food and styles of cooking. The island has a rich heritage of indigenous dishes and its regional cooking is strongly individual and varied. For example, Kandyan Sinhalese cooking, with its emphasis on hill country vegetables and fruits; coastal cooking, making the best of the abundant seafood with which the land is blessed; Tamil cooking, closely linked to that of southern India, which is especially prevalent in Jaffna, in the north.
NEWS
5000 new French tourist to arrive in Sri Lanka
Alain Clavel, Chairman and Frank Manin - Director of Antipodes Voyages of France arrived in Colombo to finalize the arrival of 5,000 new guests to Sri Lanka during the coming months.
Mr. Clavel and Manin arrived as VIP guests at the Galadari hotel on Monday and were cordially welcomed by Sampath Siriwardena - General Manager of the Hotel along with Chandra Ediriweera of Ceylon Tours, the local partner of Antipodes Voyages of France.
Economy stable - Times lists Lanka as top tourist destination
The prospects for Sri Lanka’s economy is bright and optimistic with much potential for massive scale growth and development, as revealed by various independent economic observations.
Luxury Voyage - Sri Lanka in bid to lure cruise ship calls
Once a lucrative foreign exchange provider to Sri Lanka, cruise tourism is seen as bringing back more well-heeled tourists to the island, just as it did before the ethnic war.
Sri Lanka is expecting an estimated 21,000 cruise passengers this year with 30 liners having confirm calls, travel trade officials said.
The pair of the very rare species of white tigers known as ‘Panthera Tigris Tigers’ gifted to the Dehiwala Zoological Gardens by the Xiang Jiang Zoo of the Suenzu region of China under an animal exchange program were placed in their enclosure at the Dehiwala Zoo for public viewing yesterday.
Chaaya Blu- JK Hotels answer to the burgeoning of East Coast Tourism
Botanical Gardens for Hambantota, Awissawella
Business Tourism – Sri Lanka builds to lure business visitors
Chaya - exhibition of art photography
Coast Guards expand reach
Economy to grow by seven percent
Embassy, World Bank highlight authentic Lankan cuisine
Five years of development – Kandy district on the fast track to rejuvenation
Frequent Flights - SriLankan Airlines to expand routes, frequencies
Govt targets 2.5m tourists by 2016
Infrastructure development - Japan grants 20,577 m Yen
Island Allure - Sri Lanka tourist trade seen recovering fast
Mattala, boon to local aviation industry - First flight to land by 2011
More tourists from US in January
Open Skies - Sri Lanka to allow recreational flying
Overseas Support - Sri Lanka gets foreign loans for tourism, roads
Sea travels in ancient Lanka
Stage II - Kalpitiya Integrated Tourism Resort Project
Tourism industry diversified for rural uplift
Tourism industry upbeat with influx
Tourism promotion makes headway in North
Tourists have voted with their feet - Lankan envoy in Brussels
Wave Riders - Sri Lanka lures back Japanese surfers
Quote of the month
"Dear me, it is beautiful."
- Mark Twain, when his ship reached Ceylon in the 1890s
