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Helga’s Folly – Jungle Style in Sri Lanka

In the visitor's book, everyone searches for an adequate description. "Where Alice in Wonderland met the Marquis de Sade" is one. "Soft pornography" suggests another. Carl Muller was perhaps closest when he wrote: "Truly, the gods of music, art and drama have created the impossible".