Serendib Magazine - July 2013

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An age-old ritual is still enacted day after day in the Ruhunu Kataragama Maha Devalaya at Kataragama, the jungle shrine in the south-east of Sri Lanka, considered the oldest and one of the most holy in the country.
Uthuwan Kanda, the mountain crowned with a striking rock outcrop, remains a symbolic landmark of the legend of Saradiel or the 'Robin Hood of Uthuwan Kanda'.
Kurunegala, Sri Lanka’s 14th Century royal capital during the time of the ancient kings, is today the capital of the country’s North Western Province. And, it is here that the world's tallest seated Buddha statue is being built.
For many visitors this 116-kilometre route is the most familiar in the Island. The history of Galle Road stretches to the distant past when Arab merchants started to arrive, thrive and settle along the west coast.
The season has just started and is picking momentum as swarming ripples rustle up to create the surf that has made Arugam Bay the Asian Mecca of the Surfifing World.
Once a solitary mud shrine in a jungle, the Church of Our Lady of Madhu is now a powerful source of spiritual succor for Sri Lanka’s Catholic population.