It’s not every day that you meet an elephant – and when you do, you don’t expect it to break into your van. But that’s exactly what happened to the Basanayake family, tourists from Perth ...

In Colombo 7, or Cinnamon Gardens as it is also known, where my father-in-law lives, I often spot Sri Kantha’s choon paan van doing the evening rounds.

A family from Perth, Australia on holiday in Sri Lanka has had a lucky escape from a hungry elephant.. The Basnayake family was on the way to a temple in a national park when the creature attacked ...