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Travel Blogs from Negombo, Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka here we come, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Sri Lanka here we come

A travel blog entry by roseyben

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Today we fly to Colombo, Sri Lanka. The flight took 45 minutes with Sri Lankan Airlines and is one of the best flights I've ever had. We landed just after lunch time and airport security was at its maximum. We had no idea where we were headed so we ...

Final Destination, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Final Destination

A travel blog entry by hodge

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So my last stop and bit of a let down. A beech you cant swim in and now where the feel of the south beeches. So when the weather continued to act up I decided it was time to leave. The others had all flown home and it was my time to. I managed to ...

The Long Journey Home - Part 1, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

The Long Journey Home - Part 1

A travel blog entry by rbisset

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-- Coming Soon ...

Yllattavaa sujuvuutta Sri Lankalla, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Yllattavaa sujuvuutta Sri Lankalla

A travel blog entry by anssku

Maa on taas vaihtunut! Malesian killinisyys seka puhtaat ja yksinkertaiset arkkitehtuuriset linjat ovat vaihtuneet intiamaiseen yksityiskohtien leikkiin. Taydelta Intialtahan tama maa ainakin viela vaikuttaa, muutamaa poikkeusta lukuun ottamatta! ...

I've arrived!!, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

I've arrived!!

A travel blog entry by loubie

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... 20 minutes walk to my departure gate. It was here that i started talking to Sarah, a girl from Cardiff who was going to sri Lanka to teach and volunteer at the elephant orphanage. I immediately felt better and have been fine ever since! We arrived late ...

Negombo, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Negombo

A travel blog entry by countyman

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... originally booked - The Ocean view guest house.. Very pleasant, clean and cheap and run by a nice Sri Lankan guy called Mark. Sri Lanka is a cleaner, quiter and less populated version of India and a lot bloody warmer than Delhi - It's nice to get back to ...

Up the South Coast - Tangalle to Negombo Road Trip, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Up the South Coast - Tangalle to Negombo Road Trip

A travel blog entry by salcat

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... is the main production centre for the wooden masks that were originally worn by performers in exorcism ceremonies and kolam dances.  Many Sri Lankans still believe that diseases and illness can be caused by demons and there is a devil dance (which is ...

Negombo, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Negombo

A travel blog entry by nipitiri

Tagasitee on kahjuks alanud. Eile laekusime Negombosse, mis on Colombo eeslinn ja siit on lähemal lennujaama minna. Homne päev plaanitud suveniiride soppamiseks. Ülehomne hommik kavas veel vedeleda rannas ja õhtuks Colombo lennujaama, suund ...

Traveling in Style - My Style, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Traveling in Style - My Style

A travel blog entry by sabarod

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... & was able to withdraw ~$100USD in rupees.  All is well...until the next random time that my card won't work! I'm finding Sri Lanka very chilled.  I feel like being on my own in a new, smaller place is going to recharge me.  Stayed up ...

Back to Malaysia but only to go on to Indonesia., Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Back to Malaysia but only to go on to Indonesia.

A travel blog entry by nas.latif

... ;way it was put to me. I was picked at 5 am from the hotel and that was the end of my time in Sri Lanka. I found it a facinating counntry which seemed to have everything. The only things missing were deserts and icefields!!! I hope that its not too ...

Negombo, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Negombo

A travel blog entry by warren.limbert

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... for the pair and that included postage. I would have paid that for the lizard alone he is that nice.    We have enjoyed our Sri Lanka tour and it was time to move on. We stayed two nights in Ngombo and on the morning of the 5th Feb we caught a ...

Transition time, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Transition time

A travel blog entry by cathonaventure

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... , however, were fishermen wrapped in skirts untangling their nets. The remaining fish flashed silver in the nets where they were stuck. Negombo, the beach village we had chosen to rest up after our long journey, is an unlikely combo of working fishing ...

A Trip on Thomas!!, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

A Trip on Thomas!!

A travel blog entry by melandsam

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... , but we were talking yesterday would that change the place and the people? It's kind of a privilege to see the "real" Sri Lanka going about it's daily business. Not missing home too much, although doing/getting anything here is a challenge, couldn't get ...

out to the airport, Bandaranaike Airport, Sri Lanka travel blog

out to the airport

A travel blog entry by hornuts

The airport itself was extremely high security.  Between entering the vicinity of the airport and boarding the plane: 1- The tuktuk was searched and the driver's ID checked 2-I had to get out and walk the last 100 metres into the terminal because ...

Feeling the Heat, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Feeling the Heat

A travel blog entry by jamieparkins

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After briefly touching down at Male (the Maldives) to let honeymooners disembark, I arrived at Sri Lanka's international airport at Katunayaka, just north of Colombo at 3.35pm local time (GMT + 5 hours 30 minutes).  Staggering off the long-haul night ...

Sri Lanka travels, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Sri Lanka travels

A travel blog entry by countyman

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... trees, banana trees, pineapple, trees and tea plantations - and it took me an hour less to get back. Tonight I catch my late flight to Bangkok and Thailand, but I have enjoyed my time in Sri Lanka and will definately return. Wrap up well guys ...... ...

Goodbye Lanka, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Goodbye Lanka

A travel blog entry by vague-abonding

... old days. A few remarks to him would therefore be in order here. Mahinda, when you finally fought your way to the Sri Lanka Freedom party presidential nomination in 2005, nowhere were you welcomed more warmly than in this column. Indeed, we broke with a ...

Night Stop in Sri Lanka, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Night Stop in Sri Lanka

A travel blog entry by julia

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I am very fortunate this trip to be staying the night in Sri Lanka, courtesy of Sri Lankan airlines. They give you a free 3 star hotel, with 2 meals, refreshments and transfers included. It was only a 90 minutes flight from Goa direct to Colombo, ...

Negombo - too fruity for crows, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Negombo - too fruity for crows

A travel blog entry by woodlouse

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Arriving in Sri Lanka was a real shock, like walking into a hot shower. It was very wet, very hot and very humid. Even by Sri Lankan standards it was wet, as the taxi from the airport negotiated streets flooded right across with 2 foot of water. It ...

2nd Stop - Bandaranayake International Airport, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

2nd Stop - Bandaranayake International Airport

A travel blog entry by venoth

This is the first time I landed in Sri Lanka and I initially had a cultural shock especially when seeing cows grazing at the runway. The airport was heavily guarded by the army but a blessing in disguise was that I am having a Malaysian passport and we ...

Hello, Sri Lanka, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Hello, Sri Lanka

A travel blog entry by appleandparsnip

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On 02/01/2011 we packed our bags and left for Sri Lanka. Accompanied by Norma, Shirley and Rick, we made our way to Heathrow airport for our 9.30pm flight. A lovely last meal at cafe rouge before waving goodbye and heading through departures. Slightly ...

Landed in Sri Lanka, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Landed in Sri Lanka

A travel blog entry by cathonaventure

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... ! The fourth man was already at the cash desk, processing our receipt. Within ten minutes, we had our modest stamp: “SRI LANKA IMMIGRATION, Permission to land, Stay 30 days." We breezed through to the cavernous and empty arrivals hall, a bounce in ...

Sri Lanka - the lazy way!, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Sri Lanka - the lazy way!

A travel blog entry by guyandvicki

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Hi, We've had a fab time in Sri Lanka, it's such a gorgeous country and the people are all really friendly! Unfortunately it's a touch on the expensive side so we're off to India tomorrow in search of a cheap beach hut to laze around in for a few ...

Arriving in Sri Lanka, Bandaranaike  Airport, Sri Lanka travel blog

Arriving in Sri Lanka

A travel blog entry by hornuts

  I finally arrived in Sri Lanka after a long shitty night in Singapore's Changi Airport.  The transit hotel and other sleeping rooms were all overpriced, and either let you stay only 3 or 6 hours, so I held out as long as I could and had just 3 ...

Peeking Duck, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Peeking Duck

A travel blog entry by timscott23

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... through customs along with their bags! The host of our apartment accommodation met us to drive us the half hour or so to Negombo.  We were pleased we had arranged this.  Our apartment is off the main street and is an unobtrusive local style ...

Negombo, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Negombo

A travel blog entry by alexklarka

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We have arrived at Sri lanka national airport with no transport and no accomodation and lucky for us it was raining as well!! Anyway, once we had doged the 1000 taxi drivers waiting in arrivals we picked up our first Tut Tut - three wheel rickshaw/taxi. ...

Será...?!, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

Será...?!

A travel blog entry by joaopisco

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... ' mais “cavalos” do que nos outros sítios (sendo “pónei” mais fofinho)? E porque é que as mulheres no Sri Lanka usam o cabelo pelo fundo da cintura? Será que não se percebe por aqui que os papeis de jornal (usado massivamente ...

“Faits divers...”, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

“Faits divers...”

A travel blog entry by joaopisco

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... sentido. Aqui faz falta o que cá está, porque tudo o resto já sei onde está;   Conseguia reduzir o tamanho da minha mochila (e muito já foi feito entretanto);   O próximo mundial de cricket é disputado no Sri Lanka, em Fevereiro ...

First night in Sri Lanka, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

First night in Sri Lanka

A travel blog entry by backagain

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... flights later we are snoozing under the mossie net in a greasy room at Negombo beach, about 7kms from the Colombo International Airport in Sri Lanka. We have to wait for Simon to turn up from London tomorrow. Colombo is an hour trip from the airport, and ...

“Today i’m a free bird”, Negombo, Sri Lanka travel blog

“Today i’m a free bird”

A travel blog entry by joaopisco

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... , convidado pelo irmão, viajou para a França, tendo permanecido nos arredores de Paris durante 15 anos. Aí conheceu a esposa, também do Sri Lanka, e acabou por voltar ao país de origem. Contrariamente ao que pensei, não é o gerente da guest house ...

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