{"id":625,"date":"2012-11-01T15:27:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T10:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=625"},"modified":"2012-11-17T09:52:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T05:22:25","slug":"mihintale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Mihintale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not far from Anuradhapura is the sacred mountain of Mihintale. It is possible to visit on the same day you explore Anuradhapura. Civil engineers will relish the way water was handled over two-thousand years ago. Others can just take in the sights and imagine what the place was like as a great monastic city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-826.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-630\" title=\"SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-826.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-826-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-826-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-826-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-826-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-823.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-629\" title=\"SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-823.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-823-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-823-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-823-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-823.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-822.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-628\" title=\"SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-822.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-822-767x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-822-767x1024.jpg 767w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-822-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_627\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-821.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-627\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-627\" title=\"SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-821.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-821-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-821-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-821-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-821-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not all lakes are merely lakes. Some are tanks and were the reservoirs that once served an elaborate system of irrigation and water distribution.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-819.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-626\" title=\"SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-819.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-819-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-819-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-819-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SL-Mihintale-14-Oct-12-819-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not far from Anuradhapura is the sacred mountain of Mihintale. It is possible to visit on the same day you explore Anuradhapura. Civil engineers will relish the way water was handled over two-thousand years ago. 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