The Sunday Times Sri Lanka

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Four men and two women are taking shape, not through exercise, but through skilled hands, while in another area the serene features of the Aukana Buddha are being tenderly coaxed out of stone or wood. In a building up on an incline, a paramparika potter is patting layers of clay into shape, while novices pore over masks or carvings, learning the finer points of different crafts.

Staying in style on the shore -- Resort Report

"It's not rock and roll," said Brendan O'Donnell as he showed me around the most impressive hotel property I have ever seen in Sri Lanka. "It's romantic." He was describing the arbour of columns and candle niches with an Indian swing bed for "chilling out" (his words, not mine) that confronted me as I tried to find the way into the Reef Beach Villa.

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