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| More Sri Lankan Scenes |
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| Gordon studies the designs on a 400-year-old door at a temple near Kandy. |
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| We spent a wonderful afternoon at the world-class Botannical Park of Kandy. Here's Judy under one of the many floral bowers. |
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| Here's the mountain fortress of Sigiria, with the entire top covered with an elaborate palace of one of the earliest Sinhalese kings of Sri Lanka. It's a hard climb up ladders and pathways, but Gordon made it. |
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| Up we went, by vintage steam train, into the mountain highlands of Sri Lanka. Did you ever wonder where that wonderful Ceylon tea comes from? There are hundreds of plantations like this for production of mountain grown tea. |
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| Tamil women bend to pick the choice top leaves, only 2 leaves and 1 bud, to fill their baskets for the day. Then they will take the basket to the drying shed and the tea-making process begins. |
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| A highlands man winnows the rice from the chaff on his homemade bamboo ladder. |
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| One of the many giant Buddha statues we found along our way. This one is as high as an 8-story building. |
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