View from our hotel

Ella

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January 16th 2010
The train to Ella departs Kandy at 8.40am so we arrived at the station about 45minutes early to ensure that we had plenty of time to buy our tickets. However, they only start selling the tickets about 20minutes before the train departs. We assumed this was because they have to wait and see how many seats remain before they reach the station, but when the train arrived it was clear this was not t ... 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