North Archive

  • Camping in Jaffna

    Camping in Jaffna

    …Is a mixed bag of experiences. A half dozen of us decided to make the trip to the Jaffna peninsula in time to see the solar eclipse that was due to happen, and to poke around the area a bit to see what the big deal with the land was that they’d fight a war [...]

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  • Day 5 – Biking Around Polonnaruwa

    Day 5 – Biking Around Polonnaruwa

    After the beaches, we were wondering what to do next. Since we’d seen plenty of beaches already, we decided to go the hills. So naturally we ended up in Polonnaruwa. Polonnaruwa is the second most ancient of Sri Lanka’s kingdoms. The ancient monarchs moved there when Anuradhapura, their stronghold since the times of Vijeya, fell [...]

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