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Tag: Sri Lanka

August 27, 2024

Sri Lanka: Nuwara Eliya’s green gold

Today we are onboard the iconic sky blue train as it puffs stoically up the highlands. Malachite forests roll serenely past, gradually making way for the sweeping tea-bush laden hills of the fabled gardens rising out of the grey mist. It truly is one of the world's great train journeys.

June 20, 2024

Sri Lanka: Kandy, the city on the hill

Kandy Lake lies just outside, wearing a soft fine mist over its silvery surface and a rippling parapet wall curving around it like a cloud. A royal bathing pavilion on the shore had been built for Kandyan queens, and has found a second life as a much more prosaic police post.