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Sigiriya, Dambulla and The Perhara Esala at Kandy

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August 22nd 2015
A morning walk along the 'Tank' (manmade lake) before breakfast at Habarana a bounty of water lilly's and abundance of Birdlife. Janika arrives after breakfast to transfer us to our next stop Sigiriya Rock. The Rock appears majestically out of the landscape, a huge hardened magna plug of an extinct volcano. Janika gives us the history whilst he drives, popular myth states that the formation served ... 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