Two of the Damsels

1500 year old glamour pics: amazing skills considering the artists would have been suspended below an overhang above a 20 meter vertical drop and they had to get it right first time as they were drawing then painting on damp plaster so mistakes could not be erased.

Sri Lanka 2013 Blog 3 Heritance Kandalama to Kandy via Sigiriya

December 5th 2013
Note: if you double click on any of the pictures you will be transferred to the picture gallery where they will be enlarged to half page size. Monday 2nd December: we checked out of the Heritance Hotel at 10am heading for Kandy via the World Heritage site of Sigiriya, an amazing palace complex perched on a rock outcrop and one of Sri Lanka’s most iconic places. It took only ha ... 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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