Category: Sri Lanka
Galle and Unawatuna
We left Yala NP behind, after having the great fortune of seeing the mighty leopard on both the afternoon and morning safari drives, as well as many other animals as you can see in the Yala gallery. We headed for our final stop in Sri Lanka, Unawatuna, a small backpacker beach resort on the south-west…
Yala National Park, the hunt for Leopards….
After a coll couple of days in the hill country, we jumped in a car and headed for Tissamahara, a small town in the south-east of Sri Lanka, and a jumping off point for safaris in to Yala National Park. The park is famous for having one of the highest concentrations of leopards in the…
Nuwara Eliya, Ella and the Hill Country, Sri Lanka
After an action packed day in Sigiriya and Dambulla, we pushed on to Nuwara Eliya, a hill station in central Sri Lanka surrounded by tea estates (Ceylon Tea anyone?). Being train aficionados, we elected to ride from Kandy to NE in first class, for the very reasonable cost of $10 per person. Had we roughed…
Dambulla and Sigiriya
It felt like out first day of real sightseeing on the trip! We had hired a car and driver to take us from Kandy to Dambulla caves and the citadel of Sigiriya. It was an all day adventure, and Sigiriya would rate for me as one of the great ruins of the world. After a…
Kandy, Sri Lanka
Kandy is a UNESCO World Heritage City, and inside the city is the Temple of the Tooth, a sacred Buddhist pilgrimage location. It is said that Buddha’s tooth is housed in the temple, although it has been contested that it is the tooth of a buffalo…. Whatever the origin of the bicuspid in question,…
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Chaotic, tuk tuk belching, smiling Sri Lanka. Our arrival after two days on public transport in SE Asia, and a 3 hour Air Asia flight, concluded with a 100 minute, 37km cab ride. To say traffic was heavy would be an understatement! First impressions were a quieter India, with less people, otherwise looking, smelling and…
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