Foreign participants arrive, and are met at the airport and brought to the Galle Face hotel
in Colombo.

8.30 am – 12.30 pm
Inaugural Plenary session open to the public, in the hotel.

12.30 pm – 2.00 pm lunch in hotel.

2.00 pm – 7.00 pm, with Tea interval 4.30 – 5.00 pm
First closed Workshop session, for participants.
Cultural show at hotel (Optional).
Dinner and night at Galle Face hotel, Colombo

8.30 am – 12.30 pm
Second closed Workshop session.

12.30 pm – 2.00 pm lunch in hotel.

2.00 pm, check out of hotel and leave for Kalaweva and Sigiriya by coach.
From Colombo to Kalaweva via Warakapola, Kurunegala and Galewala (approx. 4 hours).

Dinner at Kalaweva, heart of the ancient hydraulic civilization of Rajarata, Circuit Bungalow. Presentation by architect Udula Bandara Awasadahami on the ancient hydraulic civilization of Sri Lanka, followed by dinner. After dinner, drive from Kalaweva to Sigiriya, approx. one hour.         

Night at Sigiriya

Morning
Climb Sigiriya rock and see frescoes and graffiti on mirror wall. Arthur Clark who now lives in Sri Lanka described Sigiriya, built in the 5^th century, as the eighth wonder of the ancient world. If his health permits Sir Arthur will be present at the Inauguration of this Workshop in Colombo on Thursday November 22. When Sir Michael Atiyah made his first foreign visit as President of Pugwash in December 1997, he too
met Sir Arthur Clark at the Galle Face hotel, which is the oldest 5 star hotel east of Suez..

10.00 am: Check out and drive from Sigiriya to Anuradhapura, passing Dry Zone Research Station, Maha Illuppalama on the way, where the 1982 Sri Lanka Pugwash Symposium on Tropical Agriculture field visit took place. Professor Roger Revelle was the Pugwash representative on that occasion. Agricultural scientist the late Ernest Abeyratne (whose ashes were spread on the waters of Kalaweva some years ago), will be remembered for his pioneering research here. We will also pass Eppawala where the proposed phosphate rock sell out to a multinational corporation was stopped by a Supreme Court ruling, and Pugwash had a hand in this, including a mention by Philip W Anderson of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies. The Galkande Maha vihare, whose  chief incumbent Ven. Piyaratna Mahathera led the protests to the Supreme Court, is also near here, but we will not stop there.

Check in at hotel, and lunch at Anuradhapura

Afternoon
Anuradhapura, tourist round, including Ranmusu uyana, Samadhi statue, and historic Bo tree, with Udula Bandara Awsadahami as guide. Anuradhapura was the ancient capital city where the hydraulic civilization of Sri Lanka began and flourished from about the 4^th c. BCE till after 8^th c. CE, when the capital was moved to Polonnaruwa. Nov. 24 is full moon Poya, a day of special significance to Buddhists. The Maha Thupa, Ruwanveli seya (built in the 2^nd century BC, restored during world war II), by night on a Poya day is an unique experience as discussed in a recent book ‘The Mahathupa of Lanka, An Insight’, of special interest to physicists. The author, a woman architect, will be a participant in this Workshop and will introduce her interpretation of the Mahavamsa in Anuradhapura. This is also being discussed at a special meeting of the General Research Committee of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, on September 21.

The three highest brick structures in the world are in Anuradhapura; Ruwanveliseya is the third highest. The highest Jetavanarama is an UNESCO conservation project today. Director General of the Cultural Triangle project supported by UNESCO, Professor Sudarshan Seneviratne, will also meet us here.

Night at Anuradhapura.

Morning
Check out from hotel and proceed to Mihintale nearby where Arahant Mahinda son of emperor Asoka of India introduced Buddhism to Sri Lanka, as described in Pugwashite Judge Dr Christopher Weeramantry’s Separate Opinion in the Danube dam case, in the World Court in 1997, copies of which will be given to participants. (Copies were also distributed at the 55^th Pugwash Conference in Hiroshima in 2005 when he gave the Dorothy Hodgkin memorial Oration). From Mihintale proceed to Kandy, with lunch at Dambulla on the way.

ETA and check in at hotel in Kandy, 5.00 pm. and visit the Dalada Maligawa, Temple of the Tooth. Visit the open air Chapel at Trinity College, Kandy, and the small Udawattakelle rain forest nearby.

Dinner and night in Kandy.

Morning
ETD 9.00 am from Kandy and visit the Pinnawela elephant orphanage from 10.00 am to 11.30 am, bathing and feeding time, and proceed to Kuruwita for lunch hosted by Dr Siran Deraniyagala former Commissioner of Archaeology at his ancestral residence, itself an archaeological item.

Afternoon
From Kuruwita to Pelawatte, passing modern Uda Walawe reservoir, and arrive in time for dinner.

Night at Pelawatte guest house.

Whole day in Pelawatte, sugar, distillery, and milk projects, involving rural peasants. Pelawatte project was started by a multinational corporation which used chemicals and pesticides for sugarcane cultivation for some ten years before abandoning the project after reaping tax benefits offered by government. Resultant degradation of the soil is somewhat similar to the results of chemical warfare which is of interest to Pugwash. We shall see how a Sri Lanka entrepreneur Ari Wickremanayake who owns MasterDivers Ltd. has taken over the project with a practical plan to restore soil fertility over a period of time, without using any chemicals, with local people participating and benefitting from the project. (Incidentally I am told by Professor J A Gunawardena of Peradeniya University that Ari Wickremanayake is in the Guiness Book of Records for the deepest unassisted fresh water dive, but I have not verified this interesting statement).

Morning
Pelawatte, Final Workshop for Resolutions, and discussing proposed future international Pugwash Conference, perhaps in 2009.

Afternoon
After early lunch, drive back to Colombo, for dinner at the hotel.

Night at Galle Face hotel

Departure, delegates check out and are transported to airport from hotel.