Sri Lanka - A civilization worth travelling for Many visitors arrive in Sri Lanka already knowing about its beaches, wildlife, tea country and tropical landscapes. The intellectual importance of places such as Anuradhapura is less widely understood internationally. Yet this is precisely what can make a journey here especially rewarding. A traveller is not simply visiting monuments created long ago. They are entering the remains of a society that had to answer questions still familiar to us today: How do we store water? How do we use limited resources efficiently? How do we support agriculture through seasonal uncertainty? How [...]