Travel to Sri Lanka: Polonnuwara: Photo 26
Using prisoners of war, the Sinhalese attempted to build a dagoba three times higher than anything else in Polonnurawa. They got the mass built up--it's from atop the mound that this picture was taken, looking back toward the Rankot and Kiri dagobas--but they never finished the project, which now appears to be no more than a steep and forested hill. Add in the blurred focus, and you get some sense of how this place might have seemed to the British who rediscovered it in the 19th century.
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