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BATTICALOA in Rear View Mirror, Beach Ahead
Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka
|October 03, 2025
We are on the road to Batticaloa on the East Coast of Sri Lanka. A friend we are travelling with takes us to a house his grandfather had lived in.
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It's nearly 100 years old. The owner and his doctor wife give us a tour of the house. My friend says there is no change since he was here fifty years ago. The courtyard looks like the setting of a movie, and only 30 feet away there is a massive lagoon and a great view of the old city walls.
Our tour of this city starts with the Dutch Fort with their VOC emblem over the main entrance. It was built in 1638 by the Portuguese and handed over to the Dutch, who better fortified it after handover in 1796. It has four bastions linked by ramparts, part facing a large lagoon. There is a need for some serious cleaning up, but some restoration is going on and we are all enjoying the history and the water views.
This story is from the October 03, 2025 edition of Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka.
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