PURĀṆA NAVA

Experience

Stay curious.

Purāṇa Nava is experienced through food, making, exploration and connection — at whatever pace suits the day.

A long timber table laid with rice and vegetable curries in clay bowls

Dining

A journey from clay pot to contemporary Sri Lankan table.

Dining begins with traditional cooking methods — clay pots set over a dhara lipa, slow wood heat — and develops into modern Sri Lankan cooking.

Farm-grown produce, cinnamon, tropical fruits and vegetables sit at the centre of it, with anything we don't grow coming from small local suppliers.

Explore where your food comes from.

  1. Striped eggplants, green chilies, red tomatoes and gotu kola laid out on a woven mat

    Grow

    Fruit, vegetables and cinnamon from our own two acres.

  2. Cinnamon quills and bark curls

    Gather

    Cinnamon quilled and dried for sale and use. Fruit and vegetables picked and preserved for future use.

  3. Clay pot cooking over a wood fire

    Cook

    Explore cooking on clay pots on the dhara lipa, then experience our modern Sri Lankan cooking, experiencing a bit of evolution along the way.

  4. Long table laid with rice and curries

    Share

    Old style cooking or new, Sri Lankan food is meant to be shared, with a large crowd or a couple of friends. You get to explore all the different flavours this way.

Workshops

Make something with your hands.

Workshops are small and unhurried — a chance to learn from the people who do this every day, and to spend an afternoon with Sri Lankan materials, ingredients and traditions.

Hands quilling strips of cinnamon bark on a woven mat

Cinnamon Quilling

Explore the unique qualities of cinnamon through a hands-on craft experience.

Herbs, roots and powders laid out on stone

Essential Oil Making

Learn how natural ingredients can be transformed into aromatic oils.

Soap mixture poured into wooden moulds

Candle & Soap Making

A tactile workshop exploring traditional and natural materials.

Hands scraping coconut into a clay bowl

Sri Lankan Cooking

Learn about ingredients, techniques, spices, and flavours.

Tours

Follow the food back to where it begins.

Short journeys out from the farm — into the cinnamon garden, the paddy fields, and occasionally the ocean. Availability of experiences on offer changes with the season and the weather, so we plan these together prior to your arrival

  • Rows of cinnamon sticks laid out and tied on a drying rack

    Cinnamon Farm

    Explore the cinnamon farm and learn about the crop that forms part of Purāṇa Nava's foundation.

  • A coffee farm with rows of coffee plants under shade trees

    Coffee Farm

    Visit the coffee farm that supplies the property.

    Subject to availability

  • Sunrise over a green paddy field bordered by coconut palms, a bare branch lying in the foreground

    Paddy Fields

    Walk through the surrounding paddy fields and learn about the farmers who produce the rice.

  • Calm open ocean off Mirissa with a whale's tail on the horizon

    Whale Watching

    Experience whale watching from Mirissa.

    Seasonal, subject to availability

Discover Ayurveda
Dusk over the paddy fields

Come a little closer to the old ways.

And discover what they might teach us about living well today.

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