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Visiting the Ancient City of Polonnaruwa

Visiting the Ancient City of Polonnaruwa

Malaysia might be much bigger in size than Sri Lanka, but Sri Lanka has twice the number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites than it is in Malaysia. There are currently 8 UNESCO Sites in Sri Lanka compared to 4 in Malaysia and there are mostly concentrated on the southern half of the island. Naturally, we wanted to visit all of them but due to logistic and time limitation, we could only visit 6 of them. Sri Lanka might be just…

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Kandy – The Gateway to the Highlands of Sri Lanka

Kandy – The Gateway to the Highlands of Sri Lanka

SRI LANKA had always been in my bucket list for such a long time. The fact that it was probably one of the most under-rated countries at least among most travelers made my curiosity grow stronger – so much so that when my friend Audrey contacted to ask if I was interested in joining her to this ‘little’ island off the south coast of India, I had to say yes. With so many things to catch up with in the…

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Namaste Kathmandu !

Namaste Kathmandu !

Of course, as I had mentioned in my previous post on my trip to Nepal, it all began when I came up with a plan to climb up to the Everest Base Camp – only to be forced to change the plan at the eleventh hour due to some stupid presentation that I had to do at the university. Done with my presentation, I quickly returned home to pack up and hastily dashed over to the airport where my travel…

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