And so it goes on, 1,200 years later, the complex working-out of the relationships that we see embodied in Tara, between Sinhalese and Tamil, between Sri Lanka and south India, between Buddhists and Hindus.
Recent renovations to the transport networks are making Sri Lanka more accessible than ever, and its scenic rail routes are some of the most beautiful in the world.
You'd expect some wintery place like Finland to hold this record, but the tallest Christmas tree in the world was registered by Guinness World Records in Sri Lanka in 2017.
It will focus first on the adoption of children from Brazil, but will also of the cases from Columbia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh over the 3 decades of the late 1990s.