Ratnapura and Sinharajah
January 20th 2006 THROUGH RATNAPURA TO SINHARAJAH
Morning found us loading our gear, and facing another long bus ride. Siri met us with a box breakfast, and we bid him a fond farewell. No mango ice cream in the boxes though. Shame. I suppose it would have melted.
Our first target destination was Ratnapura, which is one of many gem mining areas in Sri Lanka. We had hoped to "observe gem mining" at
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