Negombo, Sri Lanka Travel Blogs

Sri Lanka here we come
May 9, 2006 (2 photos)

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 stopped ...

Final Destination
Jun 14, 2007

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
Oct 17, 2008

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I've arrived!!
Oct 18, 2006

... 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 ...

Finally
Feb 28, 2008

... lubricated, ... and I am not sure whether I should request that the pilot stay oiled. ....Sitting in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, gathering thoughts, ungathering over-packing, spreading my toes on the beach between the fishing, sailing catamarans ...

Up the South Coast - Tangalle to Negombo Road Trip
May 8, 2008 (17 photos)

... 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 like ...

Negombo
Dec 12, 2005

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 Mumbaile. 2:40 ...

Feeling the Heat
Nov 18, 2007 (4 photos)

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 ...

Goodbye Lanka
Feb 15, 2009

... 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
Apr 16, 2007 (8 photos)

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
Nov 21, 2005 (2 photos)

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 ...

Another year, another country
Jan 2, 2007 (3 photos)

... outside our room, a massive mosquito net over the bed, and all for just over 5 pounds.  So our immediate impressions of Sri Lanka were good.  After dumping our bags the first thing we did was grin at each other in excitement because it all seemed ...

Pot-luck cuisine
Jan 15, 2007 (2 photos)

We're now back in Negombo for our last night in Sri Lanka, before we fly out tomorrow to India and then, eventually, on Wednesday, to Hong Kong.  But really we don't want to tell you about Negombo, but more about Una Watuna.  The main highlight ...

Sri Lanka - the lazy way!
Mar 20, 2005 (16 photos)

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 days. ...

Sri Lanka Recollections
Jan 15, 2007

... the sea through the white collonaded portico. We got a room for just a few pounds and decided we were going to enjoy Sri Lanka a lot. Worst experiences Hearing about the bus bombs on the West Coast (near Colombo) and wondering if we'd made a terrible ...

Negombo
Jan 13, 2006 (2 photos)

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. ...

One night at the beach is never enough
Nov 16, 2007

Not much to say except security getting into Colombo airport is bloody tight. The guy from our guest house drove us to the airport with his son, but as he had forgotten his license, wasn't allowed to pass the checkpoint, he had to get out and his son ...

Back to Negombo
Jan 4, 2006

... (after the ridiculous all day journey to come about 100km up the coast) overnight before we head off to the airport. One last splurge, Lobster Thermadore for Duncan and Grilled Seerfish for me, washed down with a few Lion Lagers......goodbye Sri Lanka.

A whole new thing
Dec 14, 2005 (2 photos)

ugh....overnight flights are horrible, left Singapore airport at 1am, got to hotel in Sri Lanka at 3.30am local time, thankfully the hotel was nice (Silver Sands) and they don't mind about check-in at ungodly hours of the morning! Spent the day walking ...

Negombo
Sep 22, 2006

... somuch time worying but it all turned out fine! We arived at Colombo 2.5 hours later and got straight onto another train to Negombo which is a resort town right near the airport. Negombo was ok but a nothing town really, we got oue accomodation and ...

Leaving Pink House, and moving onto Negombo.
Feb 27, 2006 (5 photos)

... Janaka was good enough to hold me a seat. This busker came on the bus, it the first time I have seen anyone busking in Sri Lanka, I couldn't understand what he was singing but Janaka said he was pretty good, and that's good enough for me! check out the vid ...

Arrival into Negombo
Feb 24, 2008 (3 photos)

... then had a nanna nap - 5 hrs later i woke up and got ready to explore. Being only a 30 minute walk, I decided to wake into Negombo and have a look around.  I found the old Dutch Fort (it has a small entrance marked 1678).  In front of it is a ...

Happy Sri Lankan New Year!
Apr 13, 2008 (5 photos)

... . Next I went into the Hill Country and did some hikes. Ella Rock and Adam's Peak. Both were beautiful. Adam's Peak is Sri Lanka's most sacred site, supposedly where Buddah left his footprint but the real draw is the sunrise. You start the hike at 2AM ...

Negombo
Mar 6, 2009 (11 photos)

 

Day 2 in Negombo, buddhas & herb men
Feb 25, 2008 (6 photos)

... the room! After brekky I got a tuk tuk out the front to take me to Angurukaramulla Temple.   Its about a 20min drive from Negombo beach and my driver was very chatty and knew a lot about it which was great.   We waited for a monk to ...

Negombo
Feb 16, 2007

Photos to come

Negombo
Jul 19, 2009

... of sight-seeing, but it bucketed it down with rain, so couldn't go to the places I'd planned. One day I went into Negombo town itself. The fish market was amazing. Really massive and absolutely heaving with people all shouting at each other. And there was ...

Bakers
Mar 8, 2008

... recent times our bakers have become more like fast food shops around lunch time but very much of the sandwich and pie variety. In Sri Lanka bakers all have eating areas and sell good quality food aimed at their own people. They also sell short eats. This ...

Sri Lanka - humidity, sea, sand , the works
Nov 20, 2009

... Hut fix. It's always a relief when your hotel pick-up materialises partic at 2.30am & we were quickly to the hotel - Sri Lanka's international airport is also very smart. The hotel is fine if a little eccentric & just one small sheet & another ...

Colombo Transit stop
Feb 29, 2008

The night before we left for the Maldives we had decided to stay at The Silver Sands in Negombo, it was, we were told, the closest place to the airport and they had a taxi service; the family which ran it were lovely and the food good. Sadly we couldn't ...