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Experiencing Sri Lanka’s Providence- Part I: Trincomalee’s Koneswaram Hindu Temple
Blog: Todd's Wanderings - 21 April 2010
Sri Lanka. For many people it conjures images of a strident Colombo with its pollution and bottleneck traffic, the relaxed idyllic beaches in the South and a suffocating civil war in the North and East. Quite a contrast and one that kept many people from visiting the country during the intense fighting that erupted from 2006-2009. Now that the war is over tourists are streaming into the country, filling up hotels and weighing down tour buses.
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Trincomalee: Gorgeous Beaches and Exposed Rebar
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 10 September 2009
I am at a hotel in Trincomalee, which is on the east, and to the north of Sri Lanka, in a corner of the country that was nominally on and off again under Tiger control for parts of the conflict so recently and noisily concluded. There is a heavy police and military presence here, though people are telling me that things have lightened up significantly in the last month. Its a seaside town, one of the reasons I came here, to escape the rain of the hill country in favor of some sunshine, of which there is plenty.
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