Mahakande Bungalow

That's just the way it works in Sri Lanka

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January 9th 2006
I am doing better at playing tour guide than I expected. My eight students-- I'll call them students even though half of them are professors and I'm not really teaching them anything-- are curious, easy going, and have appropriately low expectations of me. I thought they might retreat into protective cocoons when they got their first look at a Third World country, but instead they seem eager to ex ... 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