Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Cricket is all about statistics. Not just fantasy cricket, but being a fan in and of itself requires some serious math skills. Today, for example, is a big game for Sri Lanka and New Zealand in the T20 World Cup. It has been thought that the loser of this game ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
This is the look of disappointment. Ricky Ponting, the Australian cricket team captain in the T20 World Cup, watches his fielders miss ball hit by Sri Lanka and roll to the boundary for four. The score meant the end of the game and Australia out of the competition. Sri Lanka ...
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
I know it's been a few days. For a traveler in India with his how own computer, internet access is not as easy to come by as you might think. In any case, I have finally managed to add quite a number of photos to the site.
Sri Lanka:Day 3
Day 4
Day ...
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
Sri Lanka has more Buddhist temples per capita than any nation in the world. Almost every village we passed through had a small Buddha shrine in the middle of town. The guide that took us on a tour of the Temple of the Tooth told us, "This is the most ...
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
We are spending our last day in Sri Lanka on the banks of the Castlereigh Reservoir about 5 km outside of Hatton, just on the western edge of the hill country. (The pic above is the view from the balcony outside our room.) Five men stand on the opposite bank, ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
We've made it to Hatton, where M's sister -- whom we'll call M3 for clarity's sake -- is doing field research for a PhD in Anthropology, doing some study of the tea plantation workers. We took a train yesterday, through tea country, and today visited a tea factory. Unfortunately, the ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Tonight, boys and girls, I'm going to tell you a little story in words and pictures.* In 650 BC there lived a king in Sri Lanka who ruled over a vast kingdom. This king had a concubine of 500 women, only one of whom was his wife, the queen.
He ...
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
We survived the four hour train ride from Kandy to Nanu Oya, and then brief drive to Nuwara Eliya. The train ride took us through beautiful tea plantation country where the world's best teas are grown and processed. They plant these little tea bushes everywhere, up the sides of the ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
4 March 2009 6:25am IST
After a long day spent looking at elephants, wandering the botanical gardens where M's parents (and so many other of their friends) courted, and exploring the Buddhist Cave Temple at Dambulla, we finally stopped for the night at an eco-friendly resort in the Sri Lankan hill ...
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
3 March 2009 5:48am IST
Since we're leaving Colombo today, I'm not sure how much internet access I'll have. It's been tough enough here. Why is it that the fancy hotels always charge for internet access? And the connection is so slow. It took almost fifteen minutes to upload the photos ...
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