"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The enchanting island of Sri Lanka has been known by many names. While under British rule for 133 years ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Sitting just south of Colombo, the Kalutara District has been characterised by agriculture for centuries. Lush green fields, so neatly ...

Our time in Ella, Sri Lanka was short, just 24 hours ,but it completely stole our hearts. Nestled in the country’s lush hill ...

Heavy clouds rolled overhead, clearing out the day’s humidity in Sri Lanka’s central highlands. Below a forested hillside, tea pickers in colorful saris moved among rows of electric-green bushes, as ...

Next to water, tea it is said, is the most consumed beverage in the world. And at the United Nations headquarters in New York last week, the spokesman for the world body referred to Sri Lanka in ...

India, the land that gave the world Darjeeling and Assam tea, risks losing its place at the global tea table, not because of its leaves, but because of its lost opportunities, notes Kanika Datta.

In 1890, Sir Thomas Lipton arrived on the island of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, to purchase a plot of land that would become the first tea estate in his global tea empire. These days, in the Ambadandegama ...

Where neon green rice paddies end at the foot of the mountain, the steep ascent into hill country begins. Produce stands line the slow, winding route into the clouds. Drivers stop to break from ...

In the mist-draped mountains of Sri Lanka's tea country, rescuers were still plucking bodies from the reddish-brown mud on ...

The new Dilmah Ceylon Iced Tea social media campaign for 2024, 'A Sip of Sri Lanka,' was filmed in some of the country's most striking natural landscapes and tea gardens. Dilmah Ceylon Iced Tea’s ...

Sri Lanka is paying some foreign debts with tea, rather than cash. But an abrupt ban on chemical fertilizers has hurt crop yields and tea pickers are losing hours and wages as food prices double. Sri ...