Statue of Buddha

Heading Home

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January 23rd 2006
HOME At this point, there's nothing fun left to describe, and once again the utter miasma of airports, planes, time zones, date lines, security lines, customs, luggage, tickets, Passports, ad infinitum takes over. Suffice to say that many hours later, we arrived home safely. Of the jet lag, the less said the better. I think that we slept about 22 hours out of the first 24 hours we s ... read more

Asia » Sri Lanka

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The Sinhalese arrived in Sri Lanka late in the 6th century B.C., probably from northern India. Buddhism was introduced beginning in about the mid-third century B.C., and a great civilization developed at the cities of Anuradhapura (kingdom from circa... ... read more