Inside the Dutch Fort, Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Sights, Dutch Fort, Galle, Sri Lanka.

The international Cricket Stadium, Galle.

Watching a cricket match from the Ramparts of the Fort.

Brahminy Kites, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

Brahminy Kites photographed around the Batticaloa Fort.

Old Dutch Fort, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

Seeing clockwise The Fort, the ferry landing site, a sentry point on the corner of the rampart and the bell tower are seen.

Old Dutch Fort, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

Looking clockwise the Fort, its front entrance on the lagoon side, the rampart on the wall of the fort and covered air-vents on the rampart are seen in this picture.

British guns on Batticaloa Fort.

 You can see the British Coat-of-arms and other markings on the artillery piece of those days.

The ghost in the Fort.

In the 1970s when I was Resident Surgeon at the General Hospital, Batticaloa I heard the following story. Inside the old Dutch fort connecting the rampart with the commanders quarters there was a metal - wooden floored bridge.
A night watcher inside the fort had heard someone walking on the wooden floor in the dead of the night. He had gone to investigate. He had seen a man dressed in metal armor and wearing a metal cap walking to and fro on this bridge. The metal ramp is now converted as a concrete bridge. I took this picture recently.

The Dutch Fort and the Rest-House, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

 The Star shaped Dutch Fort is next door to the Rest House in Puliyanthivu, Batticaloa. It is an idyllic spot where the breeze from the lagoon takes away all the stresses of a day.