Jaffna street

EVERYTHING travels the streets. Here you can see a minibus, a tuk tuk, the front of a motorbike, a big bus coming up the side road and lots of pedestrians. But there are also the cows and many, many bicycles.

Jaffna Streets and the Dutch Fort

September 29th 2013
Jaffna Streets and the Dutch Fort: As we travelled north past Vivuniya we couldn't help but wonder what we would find in Jaffna. To the left and right were pockmarked, roofless, partly-destroyed buildings and vast areas with very little population. The civil war which started in 1983 had taken quite a toll on the countryside. The highway itself had been "newly carpeted", which means it h ... 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

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