Two hundred years above Galle — a healer’s house, still in the family.
Two hundred years ago this was the home of Master Sekaradaris — the village chief, and a doctor of the old Hela Ayurveda. They say he could speak with the animals, and that they came to him; birds and creatures still fill the garden he planted, as though keeping his company.
His cures were drawn wholly from the jungle — roots, flowers and bark, gathered and prepared by his own hand, to recipes he never let leave the house. Four generations on, they are still ours, still made the same way.
The house carries his name — Medusa — for a man who held even the serpents of the forest without fear.
Teak darkened by time, lime walls that hold the cool, verandas that were once consulting rooms. We restored the house, and restored the practice with it — not a spa we added, but the house remembering what it was built for.