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Travel Day 1123 – Anuradhapura and Mhintale, SRI LANKA Since I had to stop my explorations of Anuradhapura yesterday due to the heavy rain, today I liked to do two things: seeing more of the historical sites that didn’t require a ticket and visiting the sacred hill temples of Mihintale… Mihintale was considered a sacred […]
Travel Day 1122 – Anuradhapura, SRI LANKA Today was another day and it was a big one for me as I was attempting to see as much as possible of the UNESCO enlisted Sacred City of Anuradhapura… Anuradhapura had been the sacred capital of the Sinhalese kingdoms since the 4th BC but unfortunately during its […]
Travel Day 1121 – Polonnaruwa to Anuradhapura, SRI LANKA After my almost ruin free day yesterday in Polonnaruwa, today I was off to the next ruined capital, named Anuradhapura… Anuradhapura was actually the oldest, biggest and grandest of all the ancient capitals in Sri Lanka. The ruined leftovers of Anuradhapura were of course also a […]
Travel Day 1120 – Polonnaruwa, SRI LANKA After my busy day of seeing all the many ruins of Polonnaruwa yesterday, I really didn’t feel like doing much today and I really didn’t feel like seeing more ruins… Overall it seemed to me that the only place I visited yesterday that couldn’t be considered a ruin […]
Travel Day 1119 – Polonnaruwa, SRI LANKA Today was a full day of visiting once again an ancient ruined capital, but instead of climbing on a rock as I had done in Sigiriya, I was cruising around on a bike… Luckily I had arrived already yesterday afternoon and so I was able to do some […]
Travel Day 1118 – Sigiriya to Dambulla to Polonnaruwa, SRI LANKA It would have been no problem to spend a week by the fascinating Rock City of Sigiriya and to cycle around while making mew discoveries, but because there were so many other sights in the Cultural Triangle, I rather decided to carry on… My […]
Travel Day 1117 – Sigiriya, SRI LANKA It was finally the big day of visiting what was probably the most hyped site of Sri Lanka’s Cultural Triangle, the UNESCO enlisted Ancient Rock City of Sigiriya… Obviously I did what had to be done: Getting up early, eating the pre-arranged breakfast and standing by 7am at […]
Travel Day 1116 – Sigiriya, SRI LANKA After three days in the sacred city of Kandy, I was off to the next UNESCO Site of Sri Lanka’s Cultural Triangle, the amazing rock city of Sigiriya… Initially I was debating to visit the UNESCO Cave Temples of Dambulla first, but since there was a direct bus […]
Travel Day 1115 – Kandy, SRI LANKA After watching the Esala Perahera for the past two days, it was more than time to see a little bit of the UNESCO enlisted Sacred City of Kandy… Actually long before I arrived in Sri Lanka and long before I even knew anything about the Esala Perahera festival, […]
Travel Day 1114 – Kandy, SRI LANKA After the long day and the even longer night at the Esala Perahera Parade, the annual 10 day festival was technically finished… Well, technically meant that all the nightly processions were over, but today there was still a shorter afternoon parade happening and I was debating if I […]
Travel Day 1113 – Colombo to Kandy, SRI LANKA Over the last couple of days it wasn’t quite easy to decide where to go after Colombo, but in the end the only logical solution seemed to be heading to Kandy and seeing the famous Esala Perahera Festival… Esala Perahera was deemed to be one of […]
Travel Day 1112 – Colombo, SRI LANKA Since I had focused my last two days in Colombo on the Portuguese and Dutch colonial periods, today I had to obviously follow-up with the British one… The British were already well established in India and they didn’t really have an interest in Ceylon, as Sri Lanka used […]
Travel Day 1111 – Colombo, SRI LANKA After being so little successful yesterday in finding any Portuguese colonial traces in Colombo, today I decided to rather focus on the Dutch… The Dutch had been at war with Portugal for many years and they had an interest in the lucrative spice trade when they arrived in […]