Buddha sitting, standing or lying, the intense gaze of a child, saris under umbrellas, white stupas and golden rice fields, midges tuk tuks and red sand beaches, parks authentic: Sri Lanka
Southwestern Sri Lanka
March 6-16, 2017
Summary - The set is made up of the sections below
Stories in history, Galle and Kandy ,
spells intertwined
Kandylkboy_piuû ^ po
As a teenager, we dreamed while reading "La Féerie cinghalaise: Ceylan avec les Anglais", the lyrical, poetic, burning and realistic work of Francis de Croisset, published in 1935. It opened wide the fields of the imaginary.
One day it was necessary to see first-hand, with in a corner of memory still a glimmer, what Ceylon really is, now Sri Lanka since 1972.
After 12 hours of flight instead of a few weeks by boat, we approach the one called the pearl in the ear of India, the intense emerald, or the drop that the subcontinent releases, from rain, tears, sweat or blood, it depends.
Closer from Ecuador than from the Tropic of Cancer, it has been placed on the mythical maritime spice route since the most archaic times between the Persian Gulf and the Middle Kingdom, then between the Far East and Euro-Africa.
The saffron of his Buddhist sarong now rubs shoulders with the recently hated Tamil Hindus, and coexists with other religions.
In his elegant wetness and her serene fluidity, everything in contained tension, the people wander around, expressing themselves in the fluty roundness of their language, or in their writing in rounded spanks and cursive returns as delicate as catogans.
Example : Sri Lanka = ශ්රී ලංකාව
Shaped by its latitude, it suffered sometimes from its proximity to the mainland, has built its history around its kinglets with unreal splendor, immersed in the oldest, ubiquitous Buddhism, and Hinduism.
Its relief relieves the overwhelming heat, but drains torrents of mud when the monsoon comes. Its ancestral riches breathe cinnamon and sparkle its moon stones.
Then delivered to the Western Portuguese, Dutch and English conquerors, it easily appropriated new productions. whose generous nature was immediately accommodated: coffee, then tea, rubber ...
Then she doesn't hesitate to marry a part of the culture of the former British Empire in its most obvious expression: driving on the left, unifying language (after Sinhala and Tamil) and passion for cricket.
Cows sacred, elephants, amiable colossi, ancient trains writhing in old tin, noisy buses, indestructible as heroes of "marvels", incessant swarms of agile tuk tuks, golden light of lush mornings, and the open ocean towards the sea. South which masks the terrible treachery of the tsunami ..., it is Sri Lanka, fascinating and worthy needy, precious singularity in the west Asian.
Of which we will only see the southwest.
Hikkaduwa
Kandykjbuygou
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Abridged bibliography
This list, in bulk, does not claim to be exhaustive. It is only indicative; if Wikipedia is cited there, it concerns very comprehensive in-depth articles, but this global site remains underlying.
- on the reclining Buddha of Karandeniya : http://www.amazinglanka.com/wp/karandeniya "
- on "the eight vicissitudes "or" the eight paths of life "in Buddhism :" Atalo Dahama ". (Site
- on Buddhism again and the Buddhist flag : "http://www.exploresrilanka.lk", Wikipedia,
- on sea turtle migrations , see the thesis : " Diversity and genetic differentiation populations of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in nesting and feeding sites in the southwest Indian Ocean: Application to conservation strategies for the species "by Coralie Taquet presented in 2010.
- on the island in general, Galle in particular : "Le Petit Futé".
- on some figures , the site "France Diplomatie"
- on the Introduction and the propagation of Buddhism : "https://www.shantitravel.com/fr/guide-voyage/sri-
lanka / history "
and Larousse
- sister Marco Polo in Ceylon : ( http://www.larevuedesressources.org/le-livre-des-merveilles-de-marco-polo-livre-
- again on Marco Polo but also Ibn Battuta in Asia : https://medievales.revues.org/505
- about tuk tuks : "Http://intca.org/2016/03/a-million-tuk-tuks-p1/ "
- on the mask museum in Ambalangoda : in the book "The adventure of an exhibition", an article by Janaka Samarakoon on page 104
- on Ceylon : " https://www.herodote.net/Ceylan-synthese-415.php »And in CLIO:
" https://www.clio.fr/CHRONOLOGIE/chronologie_de_ceylan_a_sri_lanka.asp »( Excellent article )
- on Sinhala art : " http://www.lemonde.fr/voyage/article/2006/07/01/splendeurs-de-ceylan_1338272_3546.html »
- on the Kandy Botanical Garden : " http://www.mysrilankaholidays.com/peradeniya-botanical-gardens.html "
- on the Tamils of Sri Lank a: "Http://www.indereunion.net/actu/Lanka/tamouls.htm "
- on the architecture of Hindu temples : Wikipedia
- on the organization of the response to disasters such as the 2004 tsunami:
" http://www.irinnews.org/fr/report/100537/un-appel-%C3%A0-l%E2%80%99action-pour-emp%C3%AAcher-les-
attacks-against-activists-% C3% A9cologists "
- on moonstones : "http://www.gemmo.eu/fr/pierre-de-lune.php"
and " http://www.dragopale.com/dragonPierreDeLune.htm "
- about Galle : Ulysse review of April 20, 2010 but also " https://www.ovpm.org/fr/sri_lanka/galle ", And" Le Petit
Smart "in" https://www.petitfute.com/v41170-galle/c1173-visites-points-d-interet/c925-edifice-religieux/566329-dutch-reformed-church.html#pe18Fm53Tc3ep6Pu.99 " , Wikipedia of course in French and English
- on the Galle cricket stadium : Wikipedia in English
- on tea ; " http://comptoir-francais-du-the.fr/glossaire-du-the.php "And Wikipedia
- about the Sinharaja reserve : " http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/405 "
- in Udawalawa park : "Http://www.discoversrilanka.travel/parc-duda-walawa/ "
- on the economy of Sri Lanka : " http://www.asie-planete.com/sri_lanka/economie.htm "
- illustrations (photos, engravings, ...) from in particular (but not only) Gallica, in:
* "Two Months in Ceylon, Colombo, Kandy, Nurrelya, Badulla, Ratnapoura, the Colombo museum, the island
Ramescheram, Anuradhupoura, chronicle and statistics ... "in 1898
* "Ceylan" / E. Cotteau in 1898
* "A Description of Ceylon, Containing an Account of the Country, Inhabitants… ”By the rev. James
Gordiner 1807 "
* " " The History of Ceylon: From the Earliest Period to the Year MDCCCXV; with ... " By Robert Knox 1817
* " https: //archive.org/details/wahrhaftigeausf00bald ... 1672 », A book in German
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