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Travel Blogs from Kataragama, Sri Lanka
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Looking For Leopards
This is a top pick! ... I suspect that most Brits believe that a ``cuppa`` would facilitate the growing of a new arm in just the right circumstances?). And Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) has been one of the largest tea exporters in the world. DH (where the D stands for Dunking My ...
Kataragama - Sacred Sri Lankan Town
This is a top pick! ... itself. The Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and sometimes even Christian all worship here together - its one of the most sacred sites in Sri Lanka along with the Temple of the Tooth which we already visited in Kandy. We stayed for about an hour, smelling the ...
1st Stop - Selva Kataragama Temple
After breakfast in the hotel this morning, we left for another temple which is part of the Kataragama group of shrines. This temple is the left most hill among the cluster of 7 temples. This temple is dedicated specifically to Lord Vinayagar. After ...
3rd Stop - Holy Temple of Kataragama
We finally reached the holy temple of Kataragama, the city where religious harmony is present. The temple itself was not too busy but we had to queue a long time, I think about two hours before we got into the sanctum. I went around ...
Leaving Rivendell
... so is to get to the train station in Ella on time to catch the 6am (ish) train to Nanuoya. We're driving from Kataragama to Ella, and then from our destination to Kandy. Another long day of travelling. We're getting the train because it's supposed to ...
The Temples on the Heights
Today we woke up at about 8am. In comparison to the past couple of mornings, I'm classing this one as a lie in. Ben and I are sharing a room at the Eco Lodge, but he managed to stay sleeping even though I was crashing about. Anywho, after a lovely ...
The Eco Lodge
... and humble; there was a peace about the place that is very hard to put into words. I've said this before about other places in Sri Lanka, but the pictures don't capture the full beauty of it. I think it's to do with something inside that relaxes, or is ...
Kataragama
... we quickly dropped our bags off at the Lodge, met the owners, Carla who was from Portugal and her husband Moona, a local Sri Lanka (with awesome dreadlocks, I might add). They're both lovely people, very caring and friendly. We dropped our bags and then ...
Falls, Baby Elephants and a Safari - all in a day!
... was concentrating on trying to spot all the animals. Yala National Park, also known as Ruhuna National Park, is the second largest in Sri Lanka. Located on the southeast side of the island and covering an area of 1,259sq km, the national park is famous ...
Our first safari!
1 NOVEMBER 2012 - We both ordered omelettes for breakfast in our hotel in Tangalla beach. We get fried eggs with lots of toast, juice and tea. We head off to Tissa. Our trip takes about 1.5 hrs and we check into a hotel which is ok but not ...
Ruhunu (Yala) National Park
... fowl, which is a bird very much like a cockerel but smaller and with not as much plumage (also the national bird of Sri Lanka according to our driver), black crested cuckoos, and little green birds that look like kingfishers called bee eaters. The name ...
A hidden Buddha behind the dunes and Yala NP
... like sentries guarding a well-preserved statue of a Buddha and two Bodhisattva figures." from http://www.discoverlk.com/food-of-sri-lanka/94-meat.html The issue is that the official government approved history and what all children are taught in school ...
Yala National Park
... in 2004. It had not even dawned on us until that point how much damage both mental and physical had been done to Sri Lanka although later on our visit to the tsunami museum we would certainly find out. After Yalle National park is was back ...
Temples and Fish in Kataragama
Although I felt I could have quite happily spent a very long time on the coast, I moved on to a little town called Kataragama.Here there was a Mosque, along with a Buddhist and a Hindu Temple.I saw my third snake since arriving here, met people feeding ...
Herbal essences! And a lot of waving!
The next morning we woke up to the elderly lady having been amused by Dirks snoring and me saying that was the most fun I've had on a floor… For breakfast we ate coconut roti with mango and passionfruit jam and a fresh pineapple. Deepika then took ...
first day of the festival - fabulous kataragama
We got a tuk tuk to the tea plantation factory, which was really interesting hearing about how tea gets from the plants to our cups. We were surprised that the factory did not own any plantations and buys the leaves from the fields. After the 3 buses, ...
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