Things to find in Sri Lanka

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• Meetiyagoda moonstone Gem & mineral ground
  The finest blue moonstone in the world comes from a small area of southern Sri Lanka around Meetiyagoda, where miners sink narrow hand-dug pits into the clay and haul the gravel up in baskets, much as they have for generations....
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• Sri Lankan sapphire (Ratnapura) Gem & mineral ground
  Ratnapura means “city of gems,” and the gravels beneath the paddy fields of southern Sri Lanka have produced the world’s great blue sapphires for two thousand years, including the Star of India and the stone in a famous royal...
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• The white elephant & the Ramayana treasure Legend
  Sri Lanka’s legends run through the Ramayana: Ravana’s kingdom, Sita’s captivity at Sita Eliya, and the Adam’s Bridge shoals between India and Sri Lanka, a real chain of limestone shoals that satellite images show clearly and...
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Every one of these is sourced

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