Google Earth Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Google Earth Posts

Google Earth lets you visit places without meeting the locals. Which is sad since quite a bit of context of the places are missed. I’ve tried to compensate with these blog posts about the places visited on Google Earth. The latest post is listed first.

2008

• Muhamalai Exit/entry point to LTTE held territory on Google Earth
• Forward Defence Lines, Nagar Kovil, Jaffna peninsula, Sri Lanka
• Muhamalai Forward Defence Lines, Jaffna peninsula Google Earth image
• LTTE X-Ray base location area, Google Earth image

2007

• Vellamullavaikkal/Ellamulavaikkal LTTE base Google Earth
• Utopian travels in Rural Sri Lanka - Google Earth view: Lamasooriya village geo blogged
• Eelam House, London. Not in Sri Lanka (physically) but what the heck, its MY blog
• Padaviya on Google Earth: travels of a Sri Lankan medicall student & blogger (doctor 0.5)
• Armoured vehicles of Elephant pass
• Omanthai Crossing Point
• Urban public housing in Sri Lanka: a childhood’s view (Summit flats, Colombo)
• LTTE artillery position Kalmunai point near Pooneryn
• Iranamadu - smaller LTTE airstrip
• Thoppigala mountain, LTTE gravesite
  
• Punchi theatre Colombo
• Colombo Museum
• Used bookshops Colombo
• Buddhist Temples Colombo - Asokaramaya
• Udappuwa / Udappu Sri Lanka
• LTTE airstrip Iranamadu - got quite a few comments
• Castle Hotel, Slave Island
• First “official” geoblog post: St. Lucia’s Cathedral, Kotahena, Colombo and how it all started. I don’t know the “why” of it.
• Barefoot Cafe Colombo (the prototype)