KANDY
Although Kandy is now Sri Lanka’s second-largest city, it retains a surprisingly quaint small-town feel, its modest grid of low-rise streets are lined with characterful mix of both Kandyan and colonial-era buildings and preserve a certain old-fashioned, rustic charm which even the often dense throngs of traffic and pedestrians can’t entirely obscure. At the west […]
MIHINTALE
The history of Mihintale is the history of Sri Lankan Buddhism, and the town is entrenched in popular consciousness as the birthplace of the Sinhalese Buddhist civilization. Simply put, this where Buddhism first arrived in this island. Legend has it that this is where the Indian missionary Mahinda or local known as Mihidum Maha Rahatung […]
SACRED BUDDHIST SITES OF SRI LANKA
A large footprint embedded atop a 2,234 metre mountain, Sri Pada (Adam’s Peak) is believed by Buddhist to have been made by Lord Buddha on this second visit to Sri Lanka in 523 BC. This site, which draws tens of thousands of pilgrims each year, is one of several sacred places associated with Lord Buddha, […]