Tea Country

Sri Lanka 2013 Blog 5 Kandy to Yala National Park: Tea Country, hills and waterfalls

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December 11th 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. Thursday 5th December: an early start for us, setting off from the Hotel Suisse at 8.15am as the drive to our next hotel on the south coast of the island was expected to take around 10 hours. Getting out of Kandy was relatively quick an ... 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