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Chickpeas and pumps in the old Colombo

From 1983 a 2009 attacks, car bombs and suicide girls were the daily norm. And with them a feeling of generalized fear. Everything in town was arrested. Everything? Not. In a small open an old tradition remained oblivious to the fear and prudence of that time; Sunday Galle Face Green.

byAlex Zurdo

23 Oct., 2013

Sri Lanka: eating tea on the train

I've eaten nuts, two coffees, nibbled a bit of pineapple and spicy tuna swallowed a dumpling and potato. I'm fat and happy. We continue to gain height, and forest clearing will, giving way to the tea fields. Waterfalls, women collecting leaves, white factories, tiny villages and Hindu temples.

byAlex Zurdo

12 September, 2012

Sri Lanka: the old Arab community and the tsunami

Its history goes back to the V, when Arab merchants established a port and a small colony that supplied commercial routes (...) (...) The father, pointing my camera, I said: When you return to your country, shows photos. You will come to help someone then? I do not know, do not know. - And I could not say more.

byEduardo De Winter

19 April, 2011

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