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- Colombo
- Capital
- Sri Lanka Rupee (LKR)
- Currency
- 19,408,635
- Population
- LK
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Sri Lanka Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Sri Lanka
Wildlife
This is a top pick! ... the house and was comteplating booking my flight back to Belfast! I liked it when I was indenial and believed that there are no rodents in Sri Lanka, but now i've seen one (albeit dead), that means there has to be at least one more about. I set on the ...
Stig of the dump
This is a top pick! So how do you spend a Saturday afternoon in Hambantota? You go to the local rubbish dump! No we haven't gone insane, the wild elephants come to feed from the dump, so we thought we would see if we could catch a glimpse of them. We managed to see 2. Now ...
Let the music begin!
This is a top pick! My purpose here has nearly been fulfilled because today, while singing "the wheels on the bus" with the preschool children, there was a definite Belfast twang when they said "horn"! That's what I call success! A new boy started today as well - always ...
Stay away from the contagious one!
This is a top pick! Yesterday the band was practicing, but this time only for 30mins. After that it was time to play. In the morning, a few girls come and learn to use a sewing machine as they don't go to school. This usually means now that we spend some of the morning ...
Happy Children's day!
This is a top pick! ... place overlooking the sea. After an initial rainstorm, they all got out and ran about. Most surreal moment for me was me dancing Sri Lankan style, with Namil, on top of a hill, to ringtones on my phone! You couldn't write the script! Also they all ...
Still haven't found what were looking for.....
This is a top pick! ... dive across the road into a restaurant for cover and a cup of tea. We admit defeat and decide we've simply had enough of Sri Lanka, it's a horrible place and head back to Colombo hoping we can get the hell out as soon as possible. We jump on a bus and ...
4kgs of chocolate cake please!
This is a top pick! ... we please pay them some money - stones and leaves to you and I. We had a great time being driven back and forth between Sri Lanka and England on possibly the safest and most comfortable ride we’ve ever had on Sri Lankan public transport! If only ...
Full moon
This is a top pick! ... planning permission is granted. the also need to get a survey done first so they can establish exactly where the boundaries are. hopefully there will be time on saturday to head out somehere and see a bit more of sri lanka. that's really all for ...
Home Of The Tooth
This is a top pick! ... a persistent cough some weeks back that annoyed the Princess to such a degree that she developed an even more annoying cough (if Sri Lanka had Sea Lions, they would have been convinced that mating season had started early). There was some sort of Buddhist ...
Searching for that picture postcard
This is a top pick! ... , by a new snorkel, mask and flippers for Ben as he borrowed the ones before and wants his own. We decide to call into Sri Lankan Airlines to reconfirm our flights to Bangkok and pay for them. Behind the desk is a lush picture advertising holidays to the ...
Candyfloss, cows and cobras
This is a top pick! ... and when i asked them what they were going to do with it, they said release it. i personally would have gone for the other option of a hammar to the head! so that's just another sunday in sri lanka. i can't see anything else happening today......i ...
"T.W.P"
This is a top pick! ... "Little Adams Peak". It is named after its bigger brother “Adam’s Peak”, which is the most sacred mountain in Sri Lanka as all the religions have a story about it, for example Buddhists believe the footprint at the top is the footprint ...
It's not as easy as ABC
This is a top pick! Yesterday the afterschoolers had to draw a happy memory. There were some very good drawings-better than any I could have attempted. The older Preschool children continued with their workbooks. The book has a range of exercises from ...
Here we go
This is a top pick! ... territory. The ancient city awaits us, but our first stop is the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage which is a big tourist attraction here in Sri Lanka and it's not far from Kegalle which we have to drive through anyway. We arrive just after 11am and can only ...
Searching For The Fishermen
This is a top pick! ... I hope this is just a problem that will be resolved as the industry matures but at this point we wouldn't recommend whale chasing in Sri Lanka and it didn't appear that many others on our boat enjoyed the activity. On our way to Unawatuna, we did pass a ...
Expensive bananas and elephants
This is a top pick! Yesterday at Preschool, the older ones were learning to write in sinhala, while the younger ones were drawing with colouring pencils. As I an equally useless at both these things (although I do sharpen a good point on a pencil) I decided to try and learn ...
Negombo and Kandy
This is a top pick! ... curries, saw an enormous monitor lizard in the lake and met lots of interesting people. Overall, we're really impressed with Sri Lanka so far - it's a really beautiful, easygoing place and not really touristy compared to other places in Asia. The ...
Insects, insects everywhere
This is a top pick! Preschool today was back to normal with 30plus children. They were making butterflies. I don't know how the teachers come up with so many craft ideas - even with access to the Internet I struggle to find just one! Also started to teach them a new song - ...
A first
This is a top pick! ... the 40/45 children that attend, only around 12 were in the class as the other children come from mainly Buddhist backgrounds. In Sri Lanka, the only religion taught in schools is Buddhism. So this really is a breakthrough, especially as it could be the ...
Lots and lots of butterflies!
This is a top pick! Yesterday after church I bought my very first, and possibly last, Sari! I can now call myself a true Sri Lankan! The school is having a sports day type event at the start of August so the teachers wanted me to wear one to it! All I'm missing is the top ...
Mr Patrick
This is a top pick! ... in Hambantota in the 80's. It was only when he left that I was told his name is Patrick!! Never did I expect to meet a Sri Lankan with such an Irish name! I think it's hilarious! No doubt his name is pronounced slightly more exotically over here, but ...
Manic with a capital MANIC!
This is a top pick! Today I woke up and it was like any other Thursday-the sun was shining, the birds were singing, the sky was blue. Ronali, Rodrick and Summit the faithful driver had come down yesterday and stayed until tonight. Everything was rosy in the garden. The only ...
A tuneful night
This is a top pick! Last night, the builders were in fine form. They must have decided that they would have a little sing a long complete with a drum and tambourine. Don't have a clue where these appeared from, but they were singing their hearts out until 1030 outside my ...
Kataragama take 2
This is a top pick! Yesterday at Preschool I took Chandima's class as she wasn't in until lunchtime. She takes the younger preschoolers during their learning time. So they started off playing with Lego and bricks and then did some colouring in. the afterschool class ...
Full Moon in the Jungle
This is a top pick! ... cooks. Many of these places were also outside the towns and cities, in the forest areas. One other thing was clear too: that Sri Lanka, biologically and culturally speaking is probably more at risk now than any time in its history, as the forests are ...
Kid in a Kandy shop
This is a top pick! ... an All Access pass at a baseball 'All-Star' game (providing you like baseball, of course). Absolutely fantastic. Wednesday December 10th Sri Lanka vs England, Second Test, Day One Got to the ground in plenty of time to get a ticket. I decided that ...
13th of June already!!
This is a top pick! When I think of Wednesday's, it now makes me think of a birthday party! Again in the afterschool club, I was in charge of the younger class on their "creative day" which is basically playing party games. I started the afternoon with about 15, but by 4pm, ...
5 days worth....
This is a top pick! ... horror and dismay when browsing through some CD's though. I have to ask the question, how on earth has Daniel O'Donnell made it to Sri Lanka?! After a lunch at a very nice cricket club and a puncture later, it was time to set off back down to ...
Keeping bus-y in Sri Lanka!!
This is a top pick! ... to date. Whilst the sun was sinking we also discovered (through a man with crazy hair, a Hawaiian shirt and bandy legs) that Sri Lanka were playing England the next day in a day/night cricket match. Having learnt the ins and outs of the game so ...
Holiday mode
This is a top pick! It's hard to believe that's the first week of the school holidays over. It seems like only yesterday that we were all running around at the sports days. I know we are in a different time zone over here, but sometimes I think time goes at a faster ...