{"id":36455,"date":"2019-08-08T03:58:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T09:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/?p=36455"},"modified":"2019-10-14T12:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T18:14:50","slug":"pic-of-the-week-june-21-2019-scenes-from-the-batticaloa-waterfront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/pic-of-the-week-june-21-2019-scenes-from-the-batticaloa-waterfront\/","title":{"rendered":"“Pic of the Week”, August 9, 2019: Scenes from the Batticaloa Waterfront"},"content":{"rendered":"

Situated on Sri Lanka’s east coast, the small city of Batticaloa was all but neglected by tourists until the country’s Civil War ended a few years ago. Fortunately for the region, that’s changing and valuable tourist dollars are flowing in.<\/p>\n

Most people who visit Batticaloa go to see its historic fort, which I’ve previously discussed<\/a>. The city is situated on the Indian Ocean, to which it is connected by a series of lagoons, and there are many great scenes to enjoy from the water.<\/p>\n

Below are some scenes from the city’s waterfront, including of its harbor including fishermen bridges and the city’s lighthouses….<\/p>\n

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Situated on Sri Lanka’s east coast, the small city of Batticaloa was all but neglected by tourists until the country’s Civil War ended a few years ago. Fortunately for the region, that’s changing and valuable tourist dollars are flowing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[13,69,23],"tags":[1271,152,1270,526,1372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36455"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41461,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36455\/revisions\/41461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}