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Sri Lanka July 2006

Overlooking the West Coast of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka July 2006

August 26th 2007
This was my second trip to the Island of Sri Lanka, in July 2006. I arrived on a Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore in the late evening. You can obtain a 30 day Visa upon arrival at the airport in Colombo. It was hot and VERY VERY humid. I took a cabbie from Colombo's Bandaranaike Int'l Airport in the North of Colombo to the suburb of Bambalapitiya near the West Coast to the Ottery Touri ... read more
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Sri Lankan Flag 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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