A tour of Sri Lanka’s beautiful north

A tour of Sri Lanka’s beautiful north

Visitors to Sri Lanka tend to stay in the south of the island, or explore the tea plantations and ancient Buddhist sites in its central highlands.Few venture to the north of the country, where civil war raged for 26 years until the insurgent Tamil Tigers were finally defeated in 2009. Yet this region is now safe, said Harriet Compston in The Sunday Times – and it is “calmer and less frenetic” than the south, with far fewer “glossy villas, shabby…