Jaffna

Jaffna is the capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka and located on a peninsula of the same name. The city is surrounded by Jaffna Lagoon to its west and south. To the north is the suburb of Nallur that once served as the capital of the four-century-long medieval Tamil Jaffna Kingdom. It is now home to the Nallur Kandaswamy temple and one of the country’s most sacred place of pilgrimage for Sri Lankan Hindus. Also to the north is the town of Thirunelveli - the place of an attack in 1983 by the Tamil Tigers that killed 13 Sri Lankan Army soldiers and triggered the civil war.