Fountain in roundabout by the Kingsbury Hotel

Sri Lanka 10th day - Hatton to Colombo - Tue 17 Jan 2017

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January 17th 2017
Today we were happy to leave Castlereigh a day earlier than originally planned. We packed up and after a leisurely breakfast we set off to Colombo. En route Basil pointed out the largest bamboo trees which had been imported from Thailand. They are not so much tall as thick - very thick. The train journey on Sunday was very straight as trains don’t like bends and the line which had been laid by ... 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