A feast of places, people, colours, animals of Sri Lanka and a taste of the Maldives -- what better antidote to grey British skies? It is a fascinating country with irrigation sorted in 400 CE, with Polonnaruwa's 5km sq of temples covered for centuries by the jungle, the delights of Kandy and then the tea plantations at 6000', then dropping to sea level in the south for the Yala Nature Reserve and Galle, finally Colombo. Take a tour, contact for photo rights Kathymansfield@mac.com