Sydney Hotel has weathered war, a natural disaster, economic crash and the global pandemic, yet still stands strong to tell ...

Head to the Galle railway station just outside Galle Fort and buy an inexpensive same-day ticket to return to Colombo – make sure you sit on the side of the car where you'll get an ocean view ...

Galle Fort, a Unesco World Heritage site on the southwest coast of Sri Lanka, is a beautiful and well preserved gateway to the country’s colonial past and cultural richness. Built by the ...

T he little-known coastal town of Galle is almost a Sri Lankan secret. It takes about a two-hour drive from Colombo to reach this port city that was built by the Portuguese in the 16th century ...

Galle Fort short eats for Lit Fest guests, courtesy of Mohamed Azwan Yasin (left) and Mohamed Aslam Ihsaan Mohideen. "This is Adakku Roti, and this is France Aappa. You won't find them anywhere else ...

Instead, citizens gathered outside the cricket stadium for an impromptu protest, which eventually made its way to the top of Galle Fort. As Australian vice-captain Steve Smith crawled towards an ...

Galle Fort is a surreal place ... but it is hard to imagine too many tourist-friendlier places in Asia. Metres outside the fort, though, is Sri Lankan cricket's fortress, which has, despite ...

When the Oriental Hotel first opened, it was needed; Galle Fort would sometimes be thronged by as many as 700 foreign passengers from the ships that would put in at Galle Harbour as they made ...