{"id":1353,"date":"2019-10-03T13:26:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T13:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talesofcey.wpengine.com\/?page_id=1353"},"modified":"2019-10-08T10:34:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T10:34:48","slug":"a-cultural-tour-in-batticaloa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/destinations\/passikudah\/experiences-in-passikudah\/a-cultural-tour-in-batticaloa\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cultural Tour in Batticaloa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pasikudah itself is primarily a beach destination and doesn\u2019t really have many cultural attractions. However, neighbouring Batticaloa is an ideal place to visit for some history and culture. Located about 35km from Pasikudah, Batticaloa was the site of the first landing of the Dutch in Sri Lanka in the early 17th century. There are a number of remnants from the city\u2019s colonial past, in addition to cultural sites, that are appealing to those who have an interest in heritage and history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pasikudah itself is primarily a beach destination and doesn\u2019t really have many cultural attractions. However, neighbouring Batticaloa is an ideal place to visit for some history and culture. Located about 35km from Pasikudah, Batticaloa was the site of the first landing of the Dutch in Sri Lanka in the early 17th century. There are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":1349,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1353","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1353\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talesofceylon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}