This is on the sea wall of Galle, a very ancient Moslem trading fort captured by the Portuguese in the 1500's, then by the Dutch (who headquartered the Dutch East India Trading Company here and built it into a huge fort enclosed by gigantic walls), and finally by the British colonists from 1800 until 1948. It is full of ancient mosques, wonderful old creepy churches and cemeteries, and surrounded by massive stone walls, 60 feet thick in places and cut through with tunnels.We spent a very large portion of our time here feeding crackers to the birds.
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