Country Info
- Colombo
- Capital
- Sri Lanka Rupee (LKR)
- Currency
- 19,408,635
- Population
- LK
- Country Code
Negombo Slideshow
Negombo
Travel Blogs from Negombo, Sri Lanka
LAZING ABOUT
... So we will be out of touch until at least February 19/2012. At that time I will start my 13 day tour of Sri Lanka and the following day Pat flies back to ...
SRI LANKA
... y a une école où les enfants en uniforme (blanc la plupart du temps) se livrent à des jeux sportifs inter-scolaires. Negombo a la particularité de compter une majorité de chrétiens, par rapport au reste du pays qui est de majorité boudhiste. ...
overwhelmed in sri lanka
... ? “oh, don’t worry, we make sure they are all at least 20 years old before we let them in.” Welcome to sri lanka… now, for the list of things I love so far: *I hired a tuk tuk driver to give me a quick tour of town. ...
Deuxième journée à Negombo
Vers 6h30 du matin on part vers le centre-ville pour aller voir le célèbre marché aux poissons de Negombo. Il est déjà tard car le marché ouvre à 3h30 du matin quand les pêcheurs reviennent de la mer. Il y a plein de gros poissons fraichement ...
SRI LANKA!!!
... bus station. The first bus was easy as our friendly tuk tuk driver dropped us off right by the "aircon" bus to Colombo. In Sri Lanka, like in Nepal, the phrase aircon just means that there are air outlets but you're very lucky if there's cold air ...
Final summary
It's been almost 5 months since I returned from Sri Lanka… and whilst browsing potential holiday destinations I realised I hadn’t even written my final summary post from the trip. So despite trying to block it all out and let the dust settle ...
boycott Sri Lanka????
... believe it - this is caused through lack of free speech and truthful education and media repression let's not forget ever that Sri Lanka is the most dangerous country in the world for journalists!!! So no don't boycott the country -this will just ...
Back to Negombo
We went back to Negombo for a few days as its quite near the airport and waited for our flight out! Negombo continued to be fun with watching the sunset on the beach and drinking King Coconuts and drinking Lion and playing pool! Going to miss Sri ...
Katunayake
... should at least mention - since Katunayake is right next to the airport and much more convenient to reach than Negombo. In fact, should I ever go to Sri Lanka again, next time I'll just walk over to the hotel from the airport and spend my first ...
Palm Trees and Stray Dogs
... ; We gathered our belongings and headed to Heathrow Airport for our evening flight to Colombo Airport, Sri Lanka. After a really long wait in London Traffic I couldn't wait to be through the gates and on our plane. Little ...
Villa Araliya
... on our previous Maldives trip. About 2/3 of the passengers got off to be replaced by a smaller number of others for the short hop to Sri Lanka. I was given a tube of Polo mints by the steward as I got off the plane. I thought he had taken a shine to me. ...
Fish
... and to give us a chance to sort these little things out.. Breakfast of mango juice, fruit, toast and marmalade then we head into Negombo to an electrical shop recommended by the hotel owner. Tuk tuk! I want one for home. We travel by one of these ...
laatste dag | last day
... had ik de eer met een paar echte Helmonders op een terrasje te zitten. Weliswaar zaten zij aan een ander tafeltje, maar heel Negombo weet inmiddels dat ze uit Helmond afkomstig zijn. Daar mogen we trots op zijn! Het is weer erg warm en de ...
Apr 13, 2012
Departure, at last . . .
... , I thought I'd take the opportunity, while I still have free internet access, to fill you in on a little bit of background about Sri Lanka: A general overview of the country can be found here. What the country has been most in the news for in the ...
Zeitreise auf Schienen
Bevor wir in Negombo den Kreis Sri Lanka schließen wollen, lassen wir noch etwas den Süden auf uns wirken. Im "Pilgrims Rest" wollen Preise und Portionen irgendwie nicht so recht zusammen passen. Doch statt Diskussionen über "vorsätzliche ...
Negombo Day 1
... the gate waving to Nick and I and going all giggly - It was really funny. It didn't take long to get the tyre changed but Sri Lanka is definitely behind the times on tools etc. We had finally arrived in Negombo after such a long journey. I sat in the van ...
Happy New Year!!
... interesting and we learnt where cork comes from, about poisonous fruits and different birds and fish. It's our last night tonight in Sri Lanka and i will be very sad to leave, it's a beautiful country and the people so accommodating and the storms are ...
last day at Negombo at fab prince residence
... up, 7.30am fast train (3h) to Colombo through the rain. 100rs tuk tuk to bus station (10 mins) , one hour to negombo by bus ( which i slept through) then last 15 mins tuk tuk (250rs) to the ice bear hotel - which turned out to be an ...
Negombo: Endlich wieder vereint!
... Ur waren wir dann echt geschafft, aber endlich da. Die Bummelfahrt zählt zu einer der schönsten Routen der Welt (Negombo-->Kandy--> Hatton) und war zudem sehr interessant. Ein verrückter Mönch, 2 süße Kids und viele schöne Landschaften ...
WOW
So I'm finally out of BKK well for the next 2 weeks anyways, The flight was good amazingly good considering that the plane was something right outa the 70s with rock hard seats and all the crazy style all that was missing was shag ...
Fishing and Forts
... added significant cinnamon storage for a crop they promoted for trading. In 1815, the British extended their colonization of India to Sri Lanka by essentially walking in and taking the Dutch fort, which ominously they turned into a prison. This was a ...
Catherine (Takesnocrap) Walker
... as we took off- the pictures don't do it justice but I took some anyway. On arrival at Colombo I grabbed a taxi to Negombo. The hotel that Triney had booked was really nice but I was so tired having been travetlling through the night I went straight ...
En dejlig men kedelig by
... hyggelig gåtur, som også førte os ned til de lokale boligblokke, hvor der var væsentligt mere liv. Om aftenen besluttede vi dog at Negombo, var en okay by, men vi havde ikke behov for mere strand og søgte derfor op efter det kulturelle i højderne. ...
Negombo......again
1 night, farewell to Debs, quic trip to the doctors and then off to Sigiriya. That's ...
Farewell Sri Lanka
... and other small craft lazily beached until the next tide. As with the colourful fishing craft, a simple commercial truck in Sri Lanka is never a simple truck but a highly decorated object of art; even the dashboards and sun-visors are rarely ...
Negombo
... chill out with fresh lemon shakes, and it gave us time to reflect upon our favourite experiences during the last few weeks. Sri Lanka has truly been one of our favourite destinations to date, offering us everything that we could wish for or imagine as ...