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"Kandy is the last Kingdom City of Sriiiiiii Lanka"

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March 18th 2009
We were up at 6.25am to pack and get ready to leave Vil Uyana. We went straignt after breakfast, at 8am. It is a 2 and a half hour drive to our hotel outside Kandy city - Kandy House. En route we see spice farms, pepper creepers, rose apple trees and many villages and towns. The main town we pass through is Matale which is very busy indeed. I resisted the offer to stop at a spice farm, althou ... 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