King Coconut break in Galle

Sri Lanka at Last!

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August 18th 2013
After many months of anticipation, our flight landed in Sri Lanka around midnight (2 am for us coming from Kuala Lumpur), so we had our first sleep in an airport hotel and the next morning Nada's driver came to take us to the apartment in Colombo (Wellawatte, actually, also known as "Little Jaffna") which we would be sharing with Nada and Sunetra for the first week. It was a great idea to have ... 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