Aug 29, 2022
In the visitor’s book, everyone searches for an adequate description. “Where Alice in Wonderland met the Marquis de Sade” is one. “Soft pornography” suggests another. Carl Muller was perhaps closest when he wrote: “Truly, the gods...
Dec 26, 2021
Amanresorts, one of the world’s most stylish hotel groups, has two sumptuous resorts on Sri Lanka’s south coast. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
Oct 4, 2021
It took my grandfather’s ocean liner a month to get to British Ceylon. He was going to see his sister who’d married a tea planter. The year was 1938 and his fellow passengers were prosperous Jewish refugees bound for Sydney and a new, safer life down under. As he...
Oct 4, 2021
Photographs by James Fennell. The island of Sri Lanka ranks high amongst the most beautiful regions in the world. Rimmed by several thousand miles of glorious sandy beaches, the interior offers an incredible landscape of contrasts from inpenetratable jungles to stark...
Oct 4, 2021
Photographs by James Fennell. Tucked down a secluded side-street in the up-market Colombo suburb of Mount Lavinia, a faded turquoise wooden doorway opens the way into the charming home of the Belgian film director Samy Pavel and his Sri Lankan born wife Rishan. Built...
