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Adam's Peak Pilgrims
Buddhist temple at Adam's Peak summit
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For over a thousand years, pilgrims have trudged by candlelight up Adam's Peak
(Sri Pada;
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) to stand in the footprints of the Buddha, breathe the air
where Adam first set foot on earth and see the place where the butterflies go to
die. Today tourists join the throngs of local pilgrims and, as you stand in the pre-
dawn light atop this perfect pinnacle of rock and watch the sun crawl above waves
of mountains, the sense of magic remains as bewitching as it must have been for
Adam himself.
