around Panaji, Capitol of Goa

     On the Mandovi River, Panaji laid back center of Goa.

Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, 1541

Fontainhas Lane

Old Town Balcony

Breadfruit

On a bend in the Mandovi

Fontanhas Balconies 

Church of the Three Kings, c 1555

Reis Magas, c1493

Coast north of Panaji

Our Lady of the Remedios, 1569

Aguada Fort, 1609 and Lighthouse, 1864

Old Fort Aguada Lighthouse

Our Lady of Hope, Candolim, 1560

Nerul River

Sinquerim Beach

GOA … a small piece of modern India.

            Mysterious and beautiful,

                between the Arabian Sea and the

                     Western Ghats...

      First the south, arrived from the east,    across the plains and through the          mountains.

Betal Palms

Old Portuguese church c. 1750, paddy fields, and jungle, Quepem

 

Paddy fields, near Molem

Small house shrine

Usgalimal, prehistoric rock art site

Usgalimal rock art

PEPPER

Cola Beach sunset

North end Palolem Beach

Palolem creek

lagoon at Cola Beach

North from Cabo da Rama

Palicio do Deao, Quepem

Chandor

the good side of the Braganca House, amazing piece of living history.

Gallery with traveling chests

Sri Lanka , 

   Old Ceylon...  Mystery, Magesty, Beauty, Temples, Jungles, Beaches... an amazing  island paradise.

Anuradhapura, ancient Buddhist center, founded in the 4th century bc

Ancient dogbas seen from across Basawak Kulama

The Sacred City

Abhayagiri Dogba, 1st century BC

Ruvanvelisaya Dogba, c 140 BC

close up Ruvanvelisaya Dogba

Abhayagiri Dogba

Thuparamaya Dogba, early 3rd century BC. First Buddhist Temple in Sri Lanka

Jetevanaramaya Dogba, 3rd century

Tufted Gray Langer, on a modern shrine, Jetevanaramaya Dogba

Ruins of a monastery Jetevanaramaya

detail, monastery steps

Abhayagiri Monastery,  Ruins in the jungle

Burrow's Pavillion

Elephant Pond

Pilgrims in jungle 

Buddha, 4th century

Buddha,  6-8th century

 Sigiriya, 5th century palace and monastery complex on top of a massive rock outcropping 

Pidurangula

Summit, Sigiriya

Summit, Sigiriya

Sigiriya

Ramakele Dogba, 5th century

ruins of a monastery in the jungle



Ritigala, deep inside the Ritigala Strict Nature Preserve are these sprawling, jungle covered ruins of a forest monastery