1. Climb Sri Pada, to see where Buddha left his footprint 2. Remote beaches 3. Safari’s with elephant sightings 4. Join the Perahera. A parade of a hundred elephants 5. Feed the baby elephants in a daily ritual at the elephant orphanage 6. Visit 5th century temples 7. Visit World’s End where you can view […]
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On December 17, 1988 when school had just ended for the summer vacation, we decided to do a road trip of the Cultural Triangle. This trip was quite risky as the LTTE has just bombed some buses close to the areas we would be visiting. With my dad as the driver and my mom as […]
Mahaweli and USAID hosted the culture exchange sports day which was held every year so that USAID and Mahaweli could have a cultural exchange between American and Sri Lankan families. It was called the Sri Lanka America Society. At the time, Sri Lanka had 5 five star hotels to try to keep tourism going in […]
Since so many of my high school friends have gone back to Sri Lanka for a visit this year, I decided to post some then and now photos of our school. I graduated from the Overseas School Colombo in 1993. Here are some of the photos I took back then and on my most […]
Checheley the Friendly Elephant 