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• Sri Lanka’s best food and where to eat it

  03-12-2016 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Chef Jon Lewin reveals his favourite places around the island for feasting on rich, dark, deeply flavoured curries of fish, goat, pork and moreSome of my favourite dishes come from Jaffna in the north. I have a slight addiction to crab, and to slow-cooked goat. The goat curry is made with Jaffna’s signature dark curry powder, which is freshly roasted and ground, ensuring an aromatic and full-bodied flavour.The meat is cooked low and slow until it’s nice and tender, and the sauce, or
  
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• Don't do that, do this: dodging the crowds in Sri Lanka

  03-12-2016 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Kandy, Sigiriya and Yala may be stunning but you’ll have to share them with thousands of other tourists. We pick equally alluring but less-visited alternatives to the main honeypot sites Continue reading...
  
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• Sri Lanka's best new hotels, hostels and cottages

  03-12-2016 08:30 via theguardian.com
  
  A tea plantation bungalow, surfer hostel, cottage near the beach and off-grid lodge are among our picks of great new places to stay in Sri Lanka For families, Thalpe Bungalows, south-east of Galle, are an affordable alternative to renting a villa. Each of the three one-bedroom cottages also has a lounge, with fold-out beds for two children, kitchen area and long veranda overlooking a leafy walled garden with central pool. Friendly owners Murray and Seema live on site with their young daughter, a
  
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• Savour Sri Lanka: sights, sunshine and beaches – away from the crowds

  03-12-2016 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sri Lanka is on the brink of a tourism boom with hotel chains rushing to open luxury resorts. But venture off the beaten track a little and you will find deserted shores, natural beauty and little-visited templesThe beach at Gurupokuna on Sri Lanka’s south coast is wild and empty. Look up and down its length and you’re unlikely to see another person. The waves here are wild, too. Too wild to swim in for eight months of the year. They crash and pound so angrily that you can hear their
  
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