So there we were, on a Kuoni tour around Sri Lanka.
Lucky us, in 1995, we were able to go as far north as the ancient city of Anuradhapura -it was often out of bounds for tourists in those troubled first few decades of Sri Lanka’s independence.
Long drive out to Anuradhapura, stopping at Kurunegala Rest House for rest and Miridiya Hotel for lunch – not bad.
Then round ancient city – Most of which severely ruins.
Sacred Botree temple highlight – 2000 year old tree – sapling of Buddha’s enlightenment tree.
Drove round park – many stupas (dagobas).
Drove on to Sigiriya Village Hotel – food mediocre – early night (even earlier start tomorrow).
Part One of our two-part photo album for this Sri lanka trip can be viewed through the flickr link below there are 69 photos therein:
Real gluttons for photo punishment can see raw scans of all 430 photos we took unedited and unlabelled here:
