The gardens at our guest house

Here we are in Kandy

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April 4th 2013
We left Dambulla on Wednesday morning and drove over 3 hours to Kandy which is high in the hills. We are staying at a guest house called Serendip. It over looks the Mahaweli river that is dammed by the Victoria Dam. Yet again the beauty of Sri Lanka never fails and the views from high in the hills are amazing, Sri Lanka is a very green lush place. We are planning a trip into Kandy to se ... 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