| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Colombo
|
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Colombo is the capital of Sri Lanka.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Colombo
|
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The city centre.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Colombo
|
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Transporting cargo.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Colombo
|
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House and cargo boats.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Colombo
|
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Street stall selling clothes.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Colombo
|
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Mosque.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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Kandy is a hill station and pilgrimage town.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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Street scene.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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The hill city of Kandy is set around a lake.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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Kandy is cooler than the coast.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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The lake in the centre of Kandy.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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Kandy is one of the country's holiest cities.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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Snake charmer.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Natha Devale Temple
|
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The Natha Devale Temple is a monastery and is the oldest structure in Kandy.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Natha Devale Temple
|
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Monk at the entrance to the main shrine.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Natha Devale Temple
|
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The temple is close to the more famous Temple of the Tooth.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Natha Devale Temple
|
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Three Buddhas: seated, standing and reclining.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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The distinctive archetecture of Kandy.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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College building.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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Street in the centre of town.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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Sign in Sinhalese, Tamil and English.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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Kandy Lake.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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Houses in the hills over the lake.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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The lake is in the centre of town.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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Children returning from school.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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Abandoned bus.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
|
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Fountain.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Temple of the Tooth
|
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Kandy is famous for the Temple of the Tooth.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Temple of the Tooth
|
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The Temple of the Tooth.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Temple of the Tooth
|
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The temple was completed in 1595.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Temple of the Tooth
|
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The temple is said to house a tooth from the Buddha.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Temple of the Tooth
|
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The interior has much carved and painted wood.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Temple of the Tooth
|
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Worshippers.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Temple of the Tooth
|
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Buddhist priests in the temple.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Botanical Gardens
|
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The Botanical Garden is at the edge of town.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Botanical Gardens
|
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Water lilies.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Botanical Gardens
|
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The garden is immaculate.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Botanical Gardens
|
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Bats.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Botanical Gardens
|
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Maintenance vehicle.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Botanical Gardens
|
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The garden is attractive.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Kandy
Site / Event : Botanical Gardens
|
 |
View of the gardens.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
Site / Event : Lankatilake Temple
|
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The Lankatilake Temple near Kandy dates from the 14th century.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
Site / Event : Lankatilake Temple
|
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The temple is fronted by a stupa.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
Site / Event : Lankatilake Temple
|
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Buddha.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
|
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Countryside around Embekke.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
Site / Event : Devale Temple
|
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The Devale Temple.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
Site / Event : Devale Temple
|
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Monk.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
Site / Event : Devale Temple
|
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Painting.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
Site / Event : Devale Temple
|
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The painted ceiling.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
|
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Terraced landscape.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
|
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Rice terracing.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
Site / Event : Gadaladeniya Temple
|
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The Gadaladeniya Temple is atop of a hill.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
Site / Event : Gadaladeniya Temple
|
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The temple was completed in 1344.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
Site / Event : Gadaladeniya Temple
|
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The temple is one of the largest made of rock in the country.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
Site / Event : Gadaladeniya Temple
|
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The rock carved interior.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Embekke
|
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Bathing elephants in the Mahaweli River.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Aluvihara
|
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The small village of Aluvihara.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Aluvihara
|
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The village is set around enormous boulders.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Aluvihara
Site / Event : Rock Monastery
|
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The Rock Monastery.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Aluvihara
Site / Event : Rock Monastery
|
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A large stupa dominates the village.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Aluvihara
Site / Event : Rock Monastery
|
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Seated and reclining Buddhas.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Aluvihara
Site / Event : Rock Monastery
|
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Scenes of hell painted on the walls.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Aluvihara
|
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Tapping a rubber tree.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Aluvihara
|
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Girl playing with a monkey.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Aluvihara
|
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Spice garden.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Matale
|
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Shop in the small village of Matale.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Matale
Site / Event : Sri Muthumariamman Temple
|
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Sri Muthumariamman Temple.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Matale
Site / Event : Sri Muthumariamman Temple
|
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The gopuram is 33m high and the temple dates from 1872.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Matale
Site / Event : Sri Muthumariamman Temple
|
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Image of Shiva.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Matale
Site / Event : Sri Muthumariamman Temple
|
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Nataraja, the Cosmic Dancer.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Matale
|
 |
Mosque.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Matale
|
 |
Monk with a Buddha.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Matale
|
 |
Sheltering from the rain.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Dambulla
|
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Scenery at Dambulla, an area famous for its cave temples.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Dambulla
|
 |
The entrance to the cave temples.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Dambulla
|
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Monkey outside the temple.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Dambulla
|
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Inside one of the many cave temples.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Dambulla
|
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Standing Buddha inside a cave temple.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Dambulla
|
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The interior of a cave temple with many Buddhas.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
|
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The fortress of Sigiriya.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
|
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Sigiriya is 200m high and has been a palace and a monastery.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
|
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Steps through the rock lead to the top.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
|
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Brick steps.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
|
 |
The mirror wall has graffiti that is a thousand years old.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
|
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Precarious route to the top.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
|
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The lion platform is half way up and gives the rock its name (lion rock).
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
|
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The upper part of the trail.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
|
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View from the top.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
|
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Ruins of a platform at the top.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
|
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A sacred pool at the top.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
|
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The sacred pool is carved out of the rock.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
|
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Lizard.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
Site / Event : Sigiriya Damsels
|
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The Sigiriya Damsels are a series of frescos.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
Site / Event : Sigiriya Damsels
|
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The paintings are over 1000 years old.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Sigiriya
Site / Event : Sigiriya Damsels
|
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The wall paintings are of females.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Polonnaruwa
|
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Polonnaruwa is one of the ancient cities in Sri Lanka.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Polonnaruwa
|
 |
Polonnaruwa dates from the 11th century.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Polonnaruwa
|
 |
Polonnaruwa was founded by the Hindu Cholas but later became Buddhist.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Polonnaruwa
|
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The ruins of the Royal Palace.
|
1983 |
| Sri Lanka |
City / Town : Polonnaruwa
|
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Audience Hall.
|
1983 |
were added from 1 February 2025.