Galle Face Hotel

Tea, Tsunami, Temples and Tuskers

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January 22nd 2006
STOP PRESS: Finally managing to do a blog. Turns out that Sri Lankan web technology is not as advanced as India's...or indeed Bolivias !! Anyway...enjoy our adventures from a few weeks ago...and I'll see how much I do today before I get piss'd off with the dial up connection and go back for a swim on the beautiful crystal clear waters of Unawattan bay :o) Well...Sri Lanka... Didn't that used to ... 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