We invite you to visit the Hill Country lakes, taste the spicy Ceylon cuisine and learn to distinguish the thousands of shades of green in the island’s stunning flora.
Here, colonial mansions coexist with Le Corbusier-inspired villas, Catholic cathedrals neighbor Buddhist shrines, and giant monitor lizards and sea turtles share the coast with leopards and elephants in Yala National Park.
Sri Lanka is a hilly island surrounded by the waves of the Indian Ocean. Once a crown jewel of the British Empire, it became home to the finest tea plantations, nature reserves, and Geoffrey Bawa’s experimental tropical modernist architecture.
Tropical modernism
and Nature
in Abundance