All over the country but especially in the North you can find shops selling dry fish. Fish is dried in order to preserve it, so anything that is not sold…
He only speaks in numbers. I hold up two fingers. He cranes his head up into the blaring afternoon sun and his head wobbles inside his oversized hat to acknowledge…
After work one day we got back to our apartment and there was a large group of people in the driveway all dressed up for a function. Making our way…
A hard days ploughing needs a nice cold beer and the closest thing to that in the Northern Province is toddy. Whilst beer is icy and refreshing, toddy is warm…
Polonnaruwa is one of the points of the cultural triangle, the other two being Anuradhapura and Kandy. An ancient monastery, it’s filled with old dagobas, pagodas, and temples. It’s a…
Net fishing is common along most coastal areas in Sri Lanka. A long and tiresome job, teams of mostly men and sometimes women spend hours and hours hauling in kilometre…
In the main street of Kilinochchi the remains of the town’s old water tower lies prostrate on the ground covered in pockmarks. It’s a stark reminder of the devastation that…
The Farah III was a container ship that was high-jacked/ran aground on the North West coast of Sri Lanka in 2006 and was used by the Tamil Tigers as the…
After getting ripped off in my first Maloo-endevour, Ramaka from work took us under her wing and offered to take us straight to the source, the fishing boats. At 7am…
Betel nut is the working man’s vice. You’re not worth your salt as a fisherman or labourer or cleaner if you don’t have red stained lips and half your teeth…
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