SRI LANKA
Flying into Colombo, we stayed at the Galle Face Hotel, a heritage hotel over 100 years old. In the morning we flew into Jaffna in a Russian plane. There were scars remaining from the recent civil war against the Tamils. The ancient city of Anuradhapura was founded in the 6th century BC. The Lion Rock crouches in red splendor, another UNESCO site.
In Kandy we attended the Perahera festival, a procession of decorated elephants moving the Buddha’s tooth from one temple to another. The disappearing Veddah tribe prepared a meal for us consisting of deer meat buried for weeks and served raw.
