School girls on an school trip outing

All Sri Lankan school girls have white uniforms and have to plait/braid their hair wearing the same colour ribbons. It's quite beautiful to see them walk down the road in an aligator procession. Bronia got caught taking this picture on the sly!

Day 65 to 71 (Apr 4 - 10) Sri Lanka - Kandy & The Ancient Cities

April 10th 2006
Blog by Bronia Well here we are, in our 2nd country on this world trip: Sri Lanka and what a country it is! Sri Lanka's main languages and religions were inherited from India with the constant migration, invasion and cultural settling of different groups from India over the course of history, but it has developed into a very distinct society with the dominant religion being Buddhism and the two ... read more

Asia » Sri Lanka

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

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