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Nallur Kandasamy Temple is one of the popular places in Jaffna where lot of people visit here daily for to offer prayers to Lord Muruga.
Nainatheevu is an Island with worshiping places which were built in the ancient times. It is called Nagadeepa in Sinhala.
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Point Pedro is a coastal town that is located in the Northern tip of this island nation Sri Lanka. This Point Pedro point with Dondara head is used to measure the longest length of the island Sri Lanka. This place consists of a long beach with sand dunes up to 100 feet high, up to the place called as Thalayady. The world famous Hartley Colleg a High School is located in this city. Many Catholic churches too can be seen around the Point Pedro along the coasts and in Nelliyady. Near to this town the Vallipuram Temple is serving as a religious place for the local people for years. There are many Hindu temples and they are very popular all over the world. Lot of pilgrims used to visit here during their annual festival days. Boat Festival (Kappal Thiruvilla) in this place is very popular and thousands of pilgrims used to attend in this festival with their decorated boats. This place is famous for its Kite flying. Normally Bullock cart racing used to take place around the Tamil New Year period as single bullock cart and Twin Bullock powered carts. And they compete in many kinds of events.. People here are very fond of Kite flying. Some of their kites used to stay weeks of long time in the sky with lightings and locally made wind blown sounds (Vinn) too.
Earlier Point Pedro was a trading port where it has connected South India and the Far East trading ports using the seasonal wind power and sail boats on those wooden ships with merchandise. Even some of the ships sailed to Java and Sumatra in the ancient times. Currently there used to be kite festival used to be held every year where thousands of people used to participate in this event. Lot of prizes are given away to the best kites during the event.
During the17th Century a Christian missionary from the Netherlands with the name Philippus Baldaeus settled in Jaffna following the Dutch occupation of then Ceylon. He documented the lives and customs of the Tamil people of Northern Ceylon. His studies were published in the Netherlands and later in Germany. In the Point Pedro market there is a stone inscription commemorating Baldeus giving lessons from the Bible under a tamarind tree. The tree where Philippus Baldaeus used to stay under was uprooted by a cyclone in the year1962.
Places to visit in Point Pedro area are the lighthouse, St. Lourdes church of Thumpalai and Vallipura Aalvar Kovil, Point Pedro and the Point Pedro Harbor.
