My husband comes from Sri Lanka, he went back a few years ago but he is useless ;-) there is a programme on at the moment on Good Food Channel My Sri Lanka with Peter Kuruvita and he travels around cooking, its interesting cos you do see bits, friends have visited the Millenium Elephant Sanctuary, its fab apparently :)) friends of mine who live in England run a fabulous little charity http://www.dogstarfoundation.com/ with the help of volunteers and the temple monks at Randeniya Temple they are fabulous :)