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Tangalla Slideshow
Top Hotels in Tangalla
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Centauria Tourist Hotel Tangalla
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Eva Lanka Hotel Tangalla
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NugaSewana Eden Tangalla
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Tangalla Bay Hotel
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Travel Blogs from Tangalla, Sri Lanka
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If u crocodile, don't forget to scream!
This is a top pick! Today Gourie who helps in the kitchen, was off so Milani helped to cook meaning she asked to teach her Preschool class. It just so happened that the 3 loudest and worst behaved where all present so it was all fun! I'm well used to them now and to be fair ...
Let's talk about cricket
This is a top pick! ... in English very well when it comes to cricket. I really should start to take an interest as we're going to watch England v Sri Lanka in October. We're traveling up to Colombo tomorrow night in preparation of a day trip to Kandy on Wednesday. ...
Tree
This is a top pick! Today I learnt alongside the preschool children - I can now write "tree" in Sinhala! You never know when that's going to come in handy! It's such an artistic language - I don't know how people write so quickly. There was a parent/teacher ...
Tangalla - Sri Lankan Coast
This is a top pick! ... many tourists, and as this is a main income in this area they desperatly need tourists now more than ever...people as always in Sri Lanka are so friendly, but you can tell from their faces here that they are especially pleased to see you. Tangalla, is ...
Sri Lankan hospitality
... to finish the work off in time so we lent our hands to the task. Indika is a well renowned and respected artist and sculptor in Sri Lanka and his gallery was devastated by the tsunami and 160 or so of his works were washed away. He recovered a couple of ...
lounging in tangalle
... pictures and no inclination towards blogging. pictures will come but any chance of saying anything of relevance is slipping away fast. sri lanka appears to have kept it's southwest monsoon for an extra six months and shows no signs of letting ...
Cookery classes & Turtle Watching
... were 5 green turtles on the beach. Green turtles are the most common species in SL, but there are 5 present in Sri Lanka, Green, Leatherback, Loggerhead, Olive Ridley and Hawksbill. It takes them about an hour to come onshore and select the ...
To the coast, finally!
Today was spent mostly in Transit Just a quick walk through Nuwara Eliya and the chill before starting our way down the coast to Tangalle Via Ella We had a pretty quiet night in Tangalle, people are heaps friendlier down this way! ...
Lazy four days on the beach
... I would say however that we have found it cheaper to live in all of the countries we have visited so far than we have in Sri Lanka. I don't understand what is going on in the Sub Continent. I have stopped going to India because the prices of hotels there ...
Uda Walawe National Park
... because you are Western unless you have a connection. We are strongly recommended not to use the public buses to get around in Sri Lanka as a whole just now and I am just going to stick to using a driver and it is much more flexible. Sunimal ...
Sea fishing
I didn't get a seat on the bus from Ella and standing in the bus as it sped down the hilly roads was not very comfortable. The only unusual thing was that one point we had to get off the bus. Another tourist and I were told to stand on one side and the ...
Peace among the palms at Surya Garden
... migrated every evening, but it appears some of them hang around to dance in the starlight. So far I've spent three weeks in Sri Lanka... and this last week has been like heaven on earth. Heaven briefly turned into hell the other day when I was ...
Introduction to Sri Lanka
... ;They work with local communities to strengthen support and development in the area of mental health in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. http://www.creativeaction.org.lk. Basic Needs is an International NGO and founder/partner of Creative ...
Building Houses
We went to some MCC partner projects, where they are building houses for people who were affected by the Tsunami. Its been a year and a half since the Tsunami hit, and people are still not in houses! It was really sad. People are living in schools, ...
Paradise Found, (original title still Lost)
A short hop on the bus along the South coast brings us to the aptly named Palm Paradise Cabanas, Tangalla. We had these ear marked for ages after reading good reviews on 'Trip advisor' and were certainly not disappointed. We were quickly installed ...
Musical Guesthouses
... beach were small craters where turtle eggs had been laid. We saw an iguana scrabbling in one, looking for those eggs. The Sri Lanka Turtle Conservation Project is located here, so it is likely that enough eggs will survive and the little turtles will be ...
Sad fishermen stories
I liked it so much here that I decided to stay on longer. I got to know the fishermen a bit better and they all had stories about the day the tsunami came and they lost their loved ones and their homes. One man found his father in a tree many miles ...
The Beach House - perfect bare foot days
After our disastrous experience at Yala, the travel agency tried to make amends by giving us an extra night at The Beach House, which was a wonderful place to spend 4 days. The cosy 3 bedroom house had a fabulous garden and pool and a door that opened ...
Recette du Alou Tharkali, plat tibetain..
- 2 grosses patates coupees en frites - gros haricots verts coupes tres finement - 1 oignon coupe grossierement - 2 gousses d'ail - 2 piments verts coupes dans la longueur - 2 tomates coupees en des - ginger (3 cm sur 1cm) - poudre veg massala - poudre ...
Recette du chutney, plat indien et nepalais
Couper finement un oignon et 3 tomates. Couper finement aussi un piment rouge et un piment vert, moins si vous n'aimez pas trop epice. Melanger le tout, tout en continuant a hacher. Ajouter de l'ail, selon les gouts, puis de la coriandre fraiche. Saler. ...
Il pleut il pleut bergere....
... chambre qui pue le moisi, et retour a la guest house pour cours de cuisine, lecture, bedos et bieres, et nice chicken curry.... Voila, passionnant. Ah si je me suis aussi achete des souvenirs, 5 petits masques sri lankais, et ai ecrit 4 cartes ...
Apres la pluie le beau temps: euh non pas ici...
... route sont morts de rire de voir deux blancs tout mouilles, surtout moi sur ma mob toute ripou, quand on voit un panneau indiquant Tangalla a 16km! Merde on s'est plantes de route!!! On est verts et mouilles, on a froid, mais on se laisse pas aller et 40 ...
Elephants at last!
Since i arrived in Sri lanka there have been 2 animals i wanted to see. Monkeys and Elephants. The monkeys have proved elusive and i have not seen one yet. I have heard them, as they regularly wake me up at night with their screeching, but alas have not ...
The last 'normal' weekend..
I say that because of the next 3 weekends, we are in Columbo watching Sri Lanka beat england at the cricket ( the test will be whether Caroline can get past 10 mins without getting bored), the team are here the following weekend, and the weekend ...
Sri Lankan Waves and Curries
... to the guys it was definitely the best Sri Lankan curry we had had so far, so we didn’t much mind the wait. Tangalla was a really nice place, very chilled and that’s just what we did. Next stop – Polhena. Best Wishes Heather and ...
Lotus Land - Home away from home
... lucky with that place and ended up staying two more days than we expected just because it was so peaceful and tranquil. Everyone in Sri Lanka, since we arrived, has been incredibly helpful and not just that but very sincere. So, when a 30 something guy ...
Leaving the Tourists Well Behind
... time I was living at St. John's (UQ). There were four of them altogether and they'd been travelling around Sri Lanka in a privately-hired vehicle complete with driver. Unfortunately though, they'd often run into disagreements with their driver so ...
Discover Trincomalee and cruise to Thangalla
... name is derived, and has been a sea port that has played a major role in the maritime and international trading history of Sri Lanka. It is referred to as Gokanna in Pali[1] or Gokarna in Sanskrit.trincomalee capital city of Hindu king ravanan and later ...
Musings From Nancy's Hammock
... to understand what had happened! My next contact experience was in just a few days ago: I noticed in our travels across Sri Lanka that screens over windows and other openings to the outdoors were becoming scarcer. At our hotel in Negombo, ...
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