Our trip up into the mountains in Sri Lanka did not start out good as our pre-booked taxi was more than an hour late for the pick-up. The driver was forgiven when he found a cute elephant on the roadside and stopped, woke us up (yes, we were sleeping in the backseat of a taxi.) so we could photograph and feed him with a banana. The elephant lived in Deniyaya National Park and looked to have it just fine on his side of the fence.
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We longed after some beach time in Sri Lanka after the very busy rickshaw week (see earlier posts). We had booked a hotel at Talalla beach in the south of Sri Lanka, a place we had read nice things about. We took a taxi from Colombo (3 hours, 170 km and 9500 rupees = € 60) with a nice driver who gave us some complimentary Sri Lankan snacks. Hot and spicy!
After two months in India we decided to take a flight over to Colombo as we were in Chennai which is very close to Sri Lanka, the flight is only one hour.
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All amazing experiences from our Rickshaw trip in India in this video. Enjoy!
It has been great fun to take part in this adventure together with 20 other people who were crazy enough to enjoy it as much as we did.
We have had some great laughs, a few beers (some people have had more than a few…) and a good time when sharing our experiences from the Indian roads.
After five days driving around the Indian state of Tamil Nadu all the rickshaw teams met up and drove in a convoy to a school where the Mexican ambassador and the President of Round Table India, an organization that raises money to support and develop the Indian schools, meet up together with a bunch of journalists. Read More
One morning before hitting the roads there was a competition where the teams should pimp their rickshaws externally and internally. We were not allowed to spend more than 1000 rupees (15 €) and the winner was chosen by a jury. A lot of the teams really got serious about this – I (Christel) definitely found The Rainbow Warriors rickshaw to be the given number one. (Se photo above.) Read More
The Indian people are very curious! Staring at another person in India is not at all rude and is something you have to get used to when you are a Westerner, especially when you drive a floral decorated rickshaw in India. Read More
One day we got some problems with the engine and we ended up stranded in a small village while we were waiting for the service car. Opposite the place where we stopped was a school, and we quickly became very popular among the children. In the race package we got the first day there was a pile of “business cards”, with a picture of us and some information about the race. These cards we were supposed to hand out to people we meet along the way and all the kids att this school now has cards with our pictures and mail addresses :-). Read More
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