from October 2006
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Sri Lanka Photo Gallery
Photographs by Palani Mohan Text by Mary Beth LaRue
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 here was beautiful light pouring through a nearby window, and hardly anyone was there," says Mohan of this scene in Mihintale, a sacred mountain pilgrimage site. "I remember wondering why there weren't thousands of tourists here. It was such a special place." Today Mihintale is considered the cradle of Buddhism in Sri Lanka with its many temples and lodgings for monks as well as ancient remains of stone steps, a stupa built in the first century A.D., a Lion Bath, and stone ponds built in the first century A.D.
Read more about Sri Lanka in the October 2006 issue of National Geographic Traveler.
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