Dambulla Rock Temple and Golden Temple - “Who painted the ceiling!?”
February 22nd 2013 20th Feb - Today we went in the van to look for elephants in the wild. They were so hard to find because there were so many trees for them to hide behind. In the end we saw one. After we went to some cave temples that had lots of Buddhas. When we went down the steps there were Buddhist monks and some ladies handing out fruit. At the bottom we saw a baby monitor lizard and if we catch one we get 40
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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 
