Serendip, an ancient name, for today’s Sri Lanka.
AÂ – Unwatuna Bay, Galle,
A description in the Indian epic Ramayana possibly describes ancient Unawatuna:
“a seashore dotted with thousands of trees, coconuts, and palms dominating, strings of houses and hermitages along the coastline, human beings and superior beings such as Gandharvas, Siddhas, and ascetics, living in them and countless bejewelled celestial nymphs thronging the shore, the coast intermittently visited by heavenly beings, Gods and demons.”
A kind of Star Trek stopover for celestial beings.
 a beeterfly?
Today the bay is a popular stopover for Tourist to the island.
With the new highway that connects the north with the south which reduces journey times by almost 2/3’s the previous times, reaching the beaches in the south under an hour from the center of the island, making day trips to south, east and west coast beaches all a pleasant possibility.
Lunch by the beach – Mouth Lavinia,
Canowin Arcade – stopover along the Highway to Galle.
Then off to the beach for some sun and sea.
All that and back home before the sun sets with the new north south expressway.
Leave the best to last:
The bay boomerangs its way to the right, littered with hotels and bungalows. Some of them rather inexpensive but will give you a view to remember and days to remember for finding your spot that has everything for the mindbodysoul to get connected to the ocean and beyond. It is a matter of you finding it.
All this for about 30 UK pounds for 3 people/day. Â Your morning coffee will not be the same again with the view and the sound of the ocean from this rather simple inexpensive place. Mihiripenna Beach Resort, Unawatuna bay.
“Sri Lanka has the longest continuous history of Buddhism of any Buddhist nation, with the Sangha having existed in a largely unbroken lineage since its introduction in the 3rd century BCE”. (wiki)
The Sinhalese Royal Family of King Devanampiya Tissa and Prince Uththiya (307 BC – 267 BC).   His reign was notable for the arrival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka through the reign of  Emperor Ashoka of India.
The Buddha is known to have visited Sri Lanka on 3 occasions.
Buddhism as before has collaborated with Chinese monks and Japanese monks in its ancient spiritual past, to today: Chinese, Korean and Japanese firms help built its new infrastructure of roads, harbours and new airports.
Sri Lanka in its quest for economic growth and better infrastructure will find a balance to not burden its population for paying of its debts protected from the mind of ambition and competition by its embedded spiritual history and its relationship with the Buddha through his teachings.
The mindbodysoul meeting the Truth head-on in all its complexity without investigative fragmentation.
Village sunrise:
dusk
visitor, trying to build a nest.
stray, dropping in for dinner.
Prayer
Serendipity