We spent a few days in our hotel in Colombo – the same as we stayed at when we were here a week ago. This time we had time left for a little sightseeing including the Gangaramaya Temple, a Buddhist temple, and a long walk (19 km in one day!) through the city center., Read More
From Nuwara Eliya to our next stop we went by train. It was a beautiful trip, well known for its scenery with rolling tea plantations and high mountain sides.
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, Read More
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), Read More
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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