Travel Blogs from Columbo, Sri Lanka
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Ancient cities, tea plantations and Ella...
... shade them from the sun - another change from India where it is not the done thing to outwardly show affection - we discovered inland Sri Lanka to be more conservative. It was great to be able to walk around the city on pavements not clogged with all ...
Sri Lanka
Arrived in Sri Lanka on Friday morning. It is everything we expected and more. Have been here 1 and a half days and now flying to the Maldives tonight Sat23rd for a week this is no reflection on S L its just rude not to go when it is just an hours flight ...
Sri lanka
... in from the hot!!! Sorry. Well when we last left off we were making our way to Hikkaduwa on the south west coast of Sri Lanka for abit of sun sea and sand. The beaches were lovely with loads of surfers doing their cool thing. We declined to ...
Sri Lanka
... airport, I don't count it as a country I've visited, but after 12 hours getting here I'm going to make an exception with Sri Lanka. The airport is actually very nice, lots of shops, and free internet access, which is why I'm writing this. ...
Visas and Vaccines
... bookshop in the foyer by the lift but sadly no light bulbs or any other light giving products ) After a relevantly short time by Sri Lanka Government department standards Del had her visa and we decided to hit the shops ( where I found the internet café ...
Explanation
... rush of entries, the internet at MEF has been down since before I arrived however I have just found an internet café whilst shopping in Columbo so dived in to update I decided to carry on blogging and have saved the entries on a ...
Sri Lanka
Landed in Columbo from Phoenix after 2 days of terrible travel. Left immediatly for the ...
Arrival Negombo, Sri Lanka
I arrived safely, slept late this morning and then walked to Negombo for some excercise.I had a huge lunch Sri Lankan-style and now I am planning an early night! Staying here for a few days before my trip ...
Sri Lanka
When you first arrive in Sri lanka and get out of the airport in columbo one of the first things you cant help but notice is the military presence, they are every where and tooled up there are bunkers with anti tank guns position through out the place. ...
On the buses
... I left MEF early with Del as we were staying in Colombo for the weekend, we took a tuk tuk to Kegalle to catch the Columbo AC bus ( AC standing for Air Conditioning which is worth every single rupee extra ! ) We were pretty lucky and got on the ...
Sri Lanka
When you first arrive in Sri lanka and get out of the airport in columbo one of the first things you cant help but notice is the military presence, they are every where and tooled up there are bunkers with anti tank guns position through out the place. ...
On the road again.
Six hour lay over - such a long wait. Eighteen tries to get thru to Canada. They gave me a meal voucher. I was so hungry. Beautiful Sari's on all the women. The flight was ok, although I don't know about the BO from the other ...
Sri Lanka
Tired!!! Sri Lanka is an awesome country. Very like en gland in many ways (except for the temperature) Its really green and has lots of tea, We got up stupidly early and went to a national park, which is supposed to be famous so that we could watch the ...
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