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A walk among the dead. In the words, and from the lens, of Neel - buddy for travel and other not so famous crimes. Kandy, Sri Lanka offers a variety of sights and sounds to visitors. One of them is worth a visit if only because  it is an oasis of calm and just steps away from the hustle and bustle. It also happens to be a graveyard. Walking into the British Garrison Cemetery is like entering another world. I don’t mean leaving the world of the living, but a world of calm and quiet. More likely than not, you will be the only visitor and you can walk  around the grounds reading the tombstones and discovering what life might have been like for the 195  people buried there. These are mostly graves of British nationals who died between 1917 when the cemetery was established and 1873 when it was closed. After 1873 only relatives of those already buried here could be buried at the British Garrison Cemetery and the last burial was in 1951. The British Garrison Cemetery in Kandy is maintained by The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) which also maintains nearly 23,000 other cemeteries around the world. . . . Read more on the blog. Link in bio. _________________________________________ @nofixedaddrs #nofixedaddrs www.nofixedaddress.in @neelmitra _________________________________________ So Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 #SoSriLanka #VisitSriLanka _________________________________________ ………. ……... …….. ……. …… ….. …. … .. . #kandy #srilanka #britishgarrisoncemetry #cemetery #commonwealthwargravescommission       #british #garrisoncemetery #colonialsrilanka #uncommonlanka #uniquesrilanka #exploresrilanka #kandysrilanka #srilankadaily #srilankadiaries #knowSL #mustbeSriLanka #exploreSriLanka #visitsrilanka #srilankatravel #srilankan #worldheritage #worldheritagecity #heritage #beautifulsrilanka #earthfocus #earthofficial #discover_earthpix     (at British Garrison Cemetery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK0aPNcsWpN/?igshid=uoc32u604efs