Knife Shape in the Rainforest

A Knife Shop

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January 15th 2006
Knife Shop We are heading for Anuradhapura. Along the road we stop to visit an archeological site. A tank, these are man-made reservoirs, centuries old. And learned how the people use to farm the land. Sri Lanka has no natural lakes so over the 3000 years that people have been living on the island thousands of tanks, some small, some mammoth have been built. These tanks are still used toda ... 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