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Batticaloa Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
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Accidental Porn Stop
This is a top pick! ... I had not planned was the 20 check points my bus would encounter getting there. The war between the LTTE and the Sri Lanakan government is mainly in the north but the closer you get the more check points you encounter. Check ...
Aurudu - Sri Lankan New Year
... preparation because it would not be good luck for the new year ahead to use an old pot - everything is a new start. A Sri Lankan was telling me that their mother has passed away a couple of months earlier. When somebody passes away in your family ...
Down by the boardwalk
... been affected by death here, it’s terrible to think of. Although I’m given a bit of a history lesson regarding Sri Lanka, I’m just extremely glad that the war is over and that it’s now regarded as a safe country for tourist. ...
Ramblings from our trip to Sigiriya
... that no matter where we have lived, we have lived either in a Muslim country or in a Muslim enclave. Even here in Sri Lanka, a Buddhist country, where Hinduism is the second largest religion, we are staying in a predominately Muslim area. And I still ...
Sidetrip...
... years later. The world heard about Thailand and Indonesia, but didn't really pay much attention to what happened on the east coast of Sri Lanka. I rode out to the far north end of the peninsula and had a nice beach walk on a garbage-free ...
THANK YOU, FATHER CHRISTMAS!
JINGLE BELLS. JINGLE BELLS. Our journey to the east coast of Sri Lanka had an inauspicious start. What should have been a 7 hour jaunt on the train turned into a 16 hour journey of disastrous proportions. No "bl**dy bugger" that we asked told us ...
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