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Sri Lanka 2013 Blog 2 Mount Lavinia to Heritance Kandalama

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December 1st 2013
Note: if you double click on any of the pictures you will be transferred to the picture gallery where they can be enlarged to half page size. Saturday 30th November: on Friday we had arranged to hire a car and driver to take us around Sri Lanka and the driver showed up as arranged at Reception at 10am as we were checking out. We left the hotel and headed north through Colombo ... read more

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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