On a cool, mist-shrouded morning in Kandy, just steps from the rhythmic drums of the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, stands a building that breathes history. The 400-year-old Ehelepola Walawwa has seen the best and worst of humanity. Once the grand residence of a Kandyan nobleman, later a colonial prison, it is now reborn…
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A Fort, a Temple and a Church. Mannar Sri Lanka
It is 32C outside and the tarred road is simmering. Yet the unrelenting heat of the day does not take away the picturesque drive that is taking us from Puttalam to the Mannar Island, overlooking the Gulf of Mannar. We cross the ‘Peace Bridge’, a 3 km causeway that connects Medawachchiya-Mannar-Thalaimannar along the A14 road…
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