Picnic Lunch in the Ruins

The location of this picnic lunch is the Kaludiya Pokuna ruins in Mihintale, Sri Lanka which is less frequented by tourists. It is 18kms east of the sacred city of Anuradhapura – a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The food is laid out on a comfortable woven mat in an incredible setting which was first settled in 2nd century BC. Encouraging and enabling community-based tourism is important to us and the picnic lunch here comes from a local home. This helps supplement their income and at the same time your clients get to taste home cooked Sri Lankan food. The food is served on lotus leaves along with fresh coconut water. Sitting in the shadow of these ancient ruins will take travellers back to an ancient kingdom and bygone era where the different sects of Buddhism vied for power in the world’s first recorded nature reserve.