Tuk tuk!

Kandy

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October 5th 2009
Colombo to Kandy After an exciting nights sleep in an open plan, open air house, listening to the monsoon howling a gale around us we got up to enjoy a traditional English breakfast with Sunethra- I say traditional... Sunethra tells us that when the English were in Sri Lanka they always started with fruit, followed with toast and jam and had scrambled egg last ... Totally backward if you ask me ... 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