"Up Country" to the central mountains: Nuwara Eliya (AKA Little England)
August 28th 2013 "Up Country" to the central mountains: Nuwara Eliya (AKA Little England)
Getting a ticket on the train to Nuwara Eliya looked very unlikely, as during the school holidays Sri Lankans are given vouchers for train travel and all the trains were said to be fully booked. However, a person helping us "had a connection" and we finally got two tickets on one of the additional trains that had been adde
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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 
