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16/05/2025

Amari Colombo Hotel Sri Lanka

Situated close to the stunning Gangaramaya Temple and colourful Victoria Park, our hotel in Colombo is all about the warm Amari hospitality, creating the perfect vibe to celebrate life’s vibrant moments. With 167 meticulously designed rooms and suites, Amari Colombo caters to both business and leisure travellers, ensuring comfort, convenience, and a refined experience for every guest.

Indulge in our dynamic dining scene with everything from authentic Thai seafood and Italian favourites to global dishes and sweet tea-time treats. Each meal is a dive into contemporary style, designed to immerse you in creative cuisine.

09/10/2024

Ceylon Tea

For centuries, Ceylon tea has been known as the finest tea around the world. Tea was first introduced to Sri Lanka by James Taylor in 1867, and the rest, as they say, is history! Ceylon tea consists primarily of black tea, however green tea and other types of tea are also grown. Although Sri Lanka is a comparatively small country, it has a wide range in elevation, which results in the flavours of tea being produced varying greatly depending on the part of the country they originate from. The main differences in flavour are a result of the climate, soil, sun, precipitation, and plant varietals. Although there are regional nuances, Ceylon tea is classically known for bold, full and brisk flavour. A majority of Ceylon tea is picked by hand, which makes it a brisk and bright tea.

09/10/2024

Hakgala Botanic Gardens
Botanic Gardens at Hakgala were established in 1861 for the purpose of experimentation and promotion of Cinchona cultivation in Sri Lanka. The gardens lying in the hill country among Sri Lanka’s tea plantations in the Nuwara Eliya district are located along the Badulla Road, 9.5 km South-east of Nuwara Eliya, the popular holiday resort.

07/10/2024

Known as the ‘Lord of the Jungle’, the Sri Lankan Leopard (Panthera parades kotiya) is one of the eight recognized subspecies of Leopard and is indigenous to Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan Leopard, the smallest of the ‘Big cats’ is still the only large mammal predator in the country and relatively bigger in size than its relatives living elsewhere. It is rusty yellow coloured with its characteristic dark spots and lithe elongated bodies. It is stocky in build, with a shoulder height of about 45 to 80 centimeters with males weighing around 56 kg and females around 29 kg and lives up o 20 years. They are highly graceful and agile animals are predatory carnivores making them excellent hunters who pursue different prey such as small mammals, birds, reptiles, wild boar, sambur and barking-deer of which the spotted deer makes a larger part of its diet. They hunt mainly during the nights and are best observed during dawn and dusk and sometimes during the daytime as well.

07/10/2024

Adam’s Peak, mountain in southwestern Sri Lanka. It is 7,559 feet (2,304 metres) high and located 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Ratnapura, the capital of Sabaragamuwa province. It is well known for the Sri Pada (Sinhala for “Sacred Footprint”), a hollow that is 67 inches (170 cm) long and 18 inches (46 cm) wide and resembles the print of a human foot. The Sri Pada is venerated by Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, and Muslims. Many pilgrims of all faiths visit the peak every year.

30/09/2024

Gadaladeniya Rajamaha Viharaya with an ancient monastery is found on the flat rock at Diggala in the district of Kandy. According to an inscription, this temple was built by King Buwanekabahu IV in the year 1344. The chief architect of this temple has been a South Indian called Ganesvarachari. Therefore this temple is essentially built following the Indian Vijayanagar architectural style.

The vihara complex in Gadaladeniya is built over a rock plateau spreading from north to south. According to the Gadaladeniya inscription by Dharmakirti, the Devala at Gadaladeniya had been constructed for the protection of the vihara.

The main shrine room has a seated (in Vajrasana) Buddha Statue under a Makara Thorana and four standing Buddha images. The makara thorana is decorated on both faces with gods such as Brahma, Suyama, Santhusuta, Natha and Maithree, and two attendants.

30/09/2024

Whales and Dolphins watching in Sri Lanka.
The ever smiling, mischievous dolphins will put on a show while some of the oldest and the largest sea creatures, the humpback and the blue whales, will nonchalantly glide past you, when you embark on a whale/ dolphin watching excursion off the Southern, Eastern or the West coast of Sri Lanka. The ideal locations for whale watching would be Dondra Point (accessible from Galle, Hikkaduwa and Mirissa) and Trincomalee while the sea off Kalpitiya teems with an abundance of dolphins.

27/09/2024

Granbell Hotel, Colombo is set minutes away from the Central Business District and overlooking the scenic Port City. Elegant interiors matched with unhindered views of the azure coast and its surroundings, from your bedroom or the rooftop pool and bar, our city hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka promises you a relaxed island escape.

27/09/2024

The Colombo Museum as it was called at the beginning was established on 1st January 1877. It founder was Sir William Henry Gregory, the British Governor of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) at the time.

The Royal Asiatic Society (CB) was instrumental in bringing to the notice of Gregory on his appointment as Governor in 1872 the need for a public museum with much difficulty the approval of the legislative council was obtained within a year. The Architect of the Public Works Department, J.G. Smither was able to prepare the plans for new structure on Italian architectural style. The construction was completed in 1876 and the Museum commenced it functions in the following year.

The Authorities of the museum took various steps to display the cultural and natural heritage of the country for this purpose.

With the development of the museum to international level, it earned the status of a national museum during the period of Dr. P. E. P. Deraniyagala. He was able to open up branch museums in Jaffna, Kandy and Ratnapura and a full - fledged Department of National Museums was established in 1942 under the act No. 31. The extension of the number of branch museums has now increased to nine and in addition a school science programme and a mobile museum service are also in operation.

08/06/2024

Colombo had always been a welcoming hub for international trade where Arabs frequented and populated enormously. They had to perform their five-times compulsory daily rituals. For that reason, the Indian Muslim Community was commissioned to put up a mosque in Pettah. Works commenced in 1908, the construction of the Colombo Red Mosque (Jami-Ul-Alfar Mosque) was finished in just a year. Habibu Labbe Saibu Labbe was the chief designer of the building who relied on Indo-Saracenic and Neo-classical architectural styles. In 1975, the Mosque’s capacity was extended as much as 10,000.

14/12/2023

23/06/2023

Turyaa Kalutara Hotel, Sprawled across six acres of ocean-front land, Turyaa Kalutara features well-appointed sea view rooms, dining spaces, large pool, spa and sauna, gymnasium, night club and more! With a total of 109 complete with private balconies, Turyaa Kalutara offers exceptional comfort throughout. Sporting interests are cared for with a host of recreational activities spanning across playing sets of badminton or shooting a cue ball across the pool table.

In terms of gastronomic variety, the Hotel hosts two restaurants (Svar and Pink Lobster) and two bars (Taaza and Twist) with each venue offering exclusive menus to flatter an assortment of tastes and culinary preferences. The conveniences at the hotel extends to doctor on call, and currency exchange services. Lose yourself in the live music and band repertoires in the lobby area or simply let the rhythmic beat of the ocean waves immerse you in our Sri Lankan beach paradise.

Be it on a brilliantly sun-bathed day, or on a seductive star spangled night, the Turyaa Kalutara hotel is a seaside sanctuary to lay back and breathe in the magic; where day upon day of seamless leisure conjures.