Beautiful Excursions Sri Lanka
TV Episode | Documentary

Beautiful Excursions

Sri Lanka

TV Episode | Documentary

Beginning of the journey in Colombo: some explanations about the country: in 1972 the country formerly called Ceylon , adopted the name of Sri Lanka.In the neighborhood of Pettah Sophie meets her guide Wimal.They visit an craftsmen village...See moreBeginning of the journey in Colombo: some explanations about the country: in 1972 the country formerly called Ceylon , adopted the name of Sri Lanka.In the neighborhood of Pettah Sophie meets her guide Wimal.They visit an craftsmen village: batik workshop, jewelry (silver bracelet), wood carver (masks used as amulet to protect the house against bad spirits).Then we go to the Sigiriya fortress: there the King Kashyapa build a fortress on a great rock (AD 477-495); after his death the fortress and the beautiful gardens were abandoned and the place was used as Buddfist monastery until the 14 the century, now it's an Unesco world heritage site.Sophie goes a cricket, Tylke a cricket player ex'plains the cricket is a very popular sport in Sri Lanka.Then Sophie travels to Nuwara Eliya, a place of tea plantations: the women who harvest the young tea leaves and other workers are Tamils, they have their own temple and speak Tamil language, but a little outside the plantations there is a school for all the children of the workers of the plantations: a hope to get education and to get later a better job.Then Sophie takes the train to Kandy, a very crowded train: Sophie speaks with Lakeesha who recommends her to visit the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy.There Sophie meets a Buddhist monk who explains her the story of the relic and the important of the great feast every year (singers, dancers, decorated elephants).Finally Sophie goes to the Pinnawala Elephant orphanage where she sees how people are taking care for these elephants. Besides I enjoyed two reporting: the first one about the gemstones, the mines near Ratnapura, the cutting and the trade of these gemstones.The second one about the 2004 tsunami: there a French surfer Yannick has lived this moment and later has helped the people of the village to build again their house and also to build a primary school for the children.Besides there is a center of tortoises protection where they collect tortoise eggs and help the young tortoise to reach the sea. Written by zutterjp48 See less

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