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Negombo Slideshow
Negombo
Travel Blogs from Negombo, Sri Lanka
The final days of Lanka
... facebook friends - Praveen, Janith and Amila, three cool Colombo guys. How about that? I had a particularly good chat with Praveen about Sri Lanka, the position the country is in since the war, learning a lot about the buddhism of Sri Lanka, and so on. ...
Sri Lanka - humidity, sea, sand , the works
... 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 with just one small sheet & ...
Negombo
... bit 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 ...
Final Stop in Sri Lanka
Little of consequence happened after my last entry in Hikkaduwa, so let's start fresh in our final destination in Sri Lanka. We arose early Sunday morning, packed and had breakfast at the hotel. There were three trains possible that morning from ...
Sri Lanka- my motherland
Arriving today at the airport outside Colombo, going further to negombo and staying 3 days at the Icebear Hotel. ...
Bakers
... 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 ...
What no air conditioning?
... aware of the effects of the Lion Stout but all is cleared by a healthy breakfast. We check out of our room and go back into Negombo. This time we walk out to the old Dutch fortress passing by lots of fishing boats in the creek. After trying one bank, we ...
Cricket sur la plage
Negombo est la ville à proximité de l'aéroport du Sri Lanka. Au bord de la mer, avec une plage interminable, c'est l'endroit rêvé pour les parties de cricket improvisées. Pleins de mioche de tout âges qui courent à perdre haleine. Charmant ...
Time For Some Homework On Sri Lanka
... get a bed, we went to the taxi counter, who happened to double up doing hotels too. It quickly became apparent that due to Sri Lanka's high rate of inflation (currently 22%) the prices in our trusted new Lonely Planet book were a bit out of date. And ...
WE HAVE LANDED......
... Abu Dhabi to Bandarananaike airport in Sri Lanka. Twenty hours flight time and 31 hours from home to comfie bed in Negombo Sri Lanka. Pat flew on Qatar airlines and I on Etihad, both classy airlines with multi-national crews--Ethiopian, ...
Colombo Transit stop
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 ...
Best of all options available.
... at was full. Events in the city make it necessary to travel some distance for a hotel - we are advised.Soooo we decide to travel to Negombo - a beach town North of the city. The Tuk-tuk driver makes us a deal, assures us it is only an hour or so away and ...
End of the line
... locals are brash and rude, the hotel room was small and filled with ants. But it doesn't matter, we've had the most amazing time in Sri Lanka. We've done lots of cool things, met lots of nice people and had a blast. We're off to Thailand this evening. ...
Negombo, Catholic heartland of Sri Lanka
... , but the level of decoration - particularly statues, paintings and stained glass - is certainly the best in Negombo, if not Sri Lanka. Here's a little about the Church's history from the local historical society: Church in Main Street ...
Dernier jour à Negombo
C'est notre dernier jour et nous allons enfin avoir l'occasion de déguster une des langoustes que plusieurs restaurants mettent à leur menu. La plupart du temps, il n'y en a pas mais notre hôte à la GH s'est renseigné et le King Coconut en a ...
Beaches and Dutch Fort in Galle
... pretty rough but we saw many small zebra fishes and a few turtles very nearby. Our last half day and night in Sri Lanka was in Negombo in a very touristic hotel. The beach here was not as nice as in Hikkaduwa. We had good talks with Susil ...
Negombo
... the experience – it was fun rolling our trousers up and putting ponchos on! We sat in an empty bar (tourists have stayed away from Sri Lanka since the Tsunami in 2004, plus the Civil War has begun again in the north and east) and talked to the owner ...
Vulkan der Gemütlichkeit
Die Rucksäcke gepackt, verschiebt sich der Aufbruch nochmals. Irmi ist noch immer nicht auf dem Damm und die rar gesäten Weiterreisemöglichkeiten tun ihr übriges. Nishan hilft wo er kann, auch wenn wir im Haus nochmal umziehen müssen: vom Riesenbett ...
relaxing in sri lanka
we set off on thurs 5th march, flying with kingfisher airlines from london to bangalore in india, with a direct connection to colombo.we weren't too sure about flying this way, but it saved us over £200 each on the holiday. as it turns out ...
Negombo hmmmmm
... with a thump when we finally made it to Negombo after a long train journey from Weligama via Colombo. Negombo is justifiably pretty much only on the Sri Lanka tourist trail because it is so close to the airport. The beach is pretty average after being in ...
Buddhist Full Moon Experience
... to our guide that we had made a decision not to go to Kandi for the biggest festival of the Buddhist year in Sri Lanka, Esala Perahera, culminating tonight--the night of the August full moon. The festival honours the Sacred Tooth of the Buddha relic ...
Negombo
On our last day in Sri Lanka, we headed up to Negombo which is close to the airport. Taking a three-wheeler from the hotel (300Rp) to Galle, we decided to splash out and take an a/c bus to Colombo (245Rp, 4h), promising 'Luxury (Non-Stop) Service'. As far ...
Have you ever seen a Mongoose? I have.
... after a few arracks!) We purchased a round ticket which included all of the above apart from Dambulla and also numerous museums around Sri Lanka. The ticket cost 5550slr, which isn't cheap compared to India but we wouldn't come all this way and not visit ...
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... night I unexpectedly saw the light. Some fire flies where flying in my room at Lovely Guesthouse. Today the last stage in Sri Lanka. 150 Km from Hikkaduwa to Negombo. The first part to Colombo (100 km) went in a little more than one and a half hour. Then ...
long day, and all the ruins i can take for now
We woke up seriously early today at 6:30 am as we had a full day of temple visiting to do our first stop was Sigiriya which was amazing beautifully located on a mountain about 200meters walk, Reminded me a lot of machu pichu except it was difficult ...
Transientry Beach Life
... all the trappings of an over-dependent local tourist economy. Despite being my last night, I stayed for the first time in a 'hostel' in Sri Lanka. The owner felt very proud that he had implemented this 'novel' idea, at this stage, only in one room of his ...
The buggers wake up at 4.30pm, hungry.
Although most people don't have much of a good word for Negombo, it was a very good place to start our trip. We had a guest house near the beach, the owner also running a travel company. The beach itself was clean and there are a few beach ...