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Anuradhapura
Anuradhapura is an old holy city that was laid out around a cutting from Buddha’s fig tree. Tracing all the way back to the third century BC, Anuradhapura was laid out by the organizer behind a request for Buddhist nuns.
This wonderful city of royal residences, sanctuaries and landmarks thrived for quite some time however was deserted after it was attacked in the late tenth hundred years. Similar as Peru’s Machu Picchu, local people knew about it however very few others until it was “found” by Europeans numerous hundreds of years after the fact. These incredible remains have since been unearthed and are open for the general population to appreciate.