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Cycle tour de Jaffna
Some 18 weeks after guns fell silent in the battlefield of the north, domestic tourism is booming in a big way.

It is not just the southerners who are storming the Jaffna peninsula and its environs to see life there after the bloody wars. An enterprising group has now begun to organise cycle tours.

The group plans to meet up in Vavuniya on May 23 and leave for Jaffna the following day along the A9 road.

They will travel by bicycle up to Puliyankulam, about 20 kilometres from Vavuniya, and thereafter take a ride by truck to Elephant Pass where they begin their ride again to Jaffna.

They will ride pass the Forward Defence Line to Mirusuvil or Chavakachcheri and camp on the beach.

On Saturday they plan to ride to Jaffna, cross over to Kayts island and camp out on Sunday, ride to Point Pedro and plan to camp at a rest house or at a nearby location.

On Monday they plan to ride down along the coastal road to Elephant Pass, cross to Kilinochchi and move to Vavuniya.

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