The art work outside the main park

The Honeymoon! (Warning: here there be elephants, many many elephants)

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June 3rd 2007
I have decided that the picture I painted of India was too negative. I love the place. Hence this is going to be a positive description of how we started our honeymoon. Day 1: We arrived at the stunningly beautiful Trichy airport at 5am where the extemely helpful security guards asked us to line up to get in to the airport itself. Then, the extremely efficient staff had to X-ray all of our bags b ... read more

Asia » Sri Lanka » Western Province » Colombo

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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