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Sri Lanka Part Two: Kandy

Jul 15, 2024Teddy2 CommentsOn the Roadkandy, market, sight-seeing, sri lanka, temple

Stops: SWP Eco-Lodge, Sri Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Tooth) (Days 65-66) The train from Colombo took us through flooded fields and villages and then up and up and up into the central highlands and back into history. Kandy has its fair share of colonial residences, hotels, and churches. But it also has extraordinary nature…

A Quick View From the Top of Sigiriya

Jul 14, 2024Teddy1 CommentOn the Roadkandy, sri lanka, video

Stop: Sigiriya (Day 67) Just a quick look from the top of an ancient fortress in Sri Lanka. Etsuko and I climbed up hundreds of steps to this ancient fortress on a pillar of granite. More on this later. (But, happy to be back on good enough Internet to upload stuff!)