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- Colombo
- Capital
- Sri Lanka Rupee (LKR)
- Currency
- 19,408,635
- Population
- LK
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Travel Blogs from Sri Lanka
Apres la pluie le beau temps: euh non pas ici...
Lever a 7h30, nuit agitee a cause des moustiques qui ont reussi a s'infiltrer par les trous de la moustiquaire, et car j'avais chaud aussi, malgre le ventilo. Il fait beau, mais le ciel au dessus de la mer est charge... Rejoins Andy au restau de la guest ...
How i DO NOT like to travel
... estava a pagar por noite. Decidi revisitar o livro. O meu montante 700, contrastava com os 500/550 dos outros hospedes, todos do Sri Lanka. Disse aos três rapazes (que mal falavam inglês), que agora só estava disposto a ficar por 550Rs. A minha testa ...
Explanation
Just to explain the sudden rush of entries, the internet at MEF has been down since before I arrived however I have just found an internet café whilst shopping in Columbo so dived in to update I decided to carry on blogging and ...
Bronzette
Reveil difficile vers 9 h, me leve vers 10h. Dehors il fait super beau c'est cool. Donne mes fringues a laver car elles puent du lavage a Tangalla, puis vais rejoindre Andreas au bar de la veille au soir. Bien sur il se remet a pleuvoir. Merde jsuis ...
Sweet Sweet Kandy
... really lifted my spirits. The scenery was beautiful and it got better the higher we went. Three hours later we arrived in Kandy. Kandy is Sri Lanka's second city and it is set high in the interior. It is a beautiful place with a lake set in the middle of ...
Family Reunion
... and every creature comfort. So after finding an ATM that delivered cash (a bit of a lottery sometimes) we indulged with Sri Lankan mangos, New Zealand butter, Turkish Orange Juice and Negombo curd in a clay pot. After that we needed an electrical ...
Right Place - Wrong Time
... were once yards containing homes, now look like swamps. Galle fort was built by the Portuguese and remained their headquarters in Sri Lanka until the Dutch took control of Colombo. Unlike the Colombo fort, Galle was not demolished and remains one of the ...
Safari - Yala National Park, Sri Lanka
... so, by the time we reached the Yala National Park we were glad we could make it until there and very, very tired. Sri Lanka is a great Country, its colours make you feel full of piece and there's positive energy everywhere. In Kataragama we stayed in a ...
Polonnaruwa
... e com vista sobre um lago. A principal razão que nos levou a Polonnaruwa foi visitar as ruínas da 2a capital histórica do Sri Lanka, mas acabamos por também fazer um curto safari de jipe (literalmente um Jeep, com umas boas décadas de uso) na Reserva ...
Kelaniya - Not so sure!!
I fell asleep so late last night as I am getting excited about a few things that are happening at the moment which is why I only left the room at around 11.45am. I went for breakfast at the same place as yesterday which was great and the girls working ...
Planning...
We had a leisurely morning on our deck re-living experiences and planning for new ones. Baz made French toast for us all with the local free range eggs and New Zealand butter. The 'pure bee honey' we bought is suspiciously like golden syrup. ...
Colombo
... tuks, to an ox and cart. Our first stop was Fort Railway station. Kay and Richard had met other travellers whose entire Sri Lankan trip had been arranged by the tourist office at Fort Station, and they thought it seemed a pretty good deal that took ...
Jungle Country
We have downsized our packs and left over half at the villa for collection at the end of our Sri Lanaka touring. In theory this frees us up each morning for a quick pack up and on the road. Our driver was on time and we were away soon after 9am. ...
Return to luxury...
Although we're not living on the bearest of minimum, sleeping in flea-ridden, frog infested, roach crawling cupboards with cold showers, a non-working fan and toothless proprietors intent on wringing every rupee out of our combined wallets, our arrival ...
Rock Climbs
Banana Rest was very restful. In the morning we could see that the main guesthouse is rather like a simple (African or Indian) game lodge, with rooms opening out to a verandah, and a large communal outdoor room eating area. It took only about 15 ...
Never knew I could cycle that much :-)
I got up late morning again - I am getting a little bit lazy at the moment!! I realised that they are actually quite a lot of things to visit around but once again it is temple and things like that. Don't get me wrong I like getting a bit of history and ...
Sun, Sand, Sick
... the sky up, and you can see the bolts of lightning forking down towards the water. We are on the southern coast of Sri Lanka and there is a beach called 'Views of Antarctic’ All the places along the beach sell fresh fish, which they have on ...
First night in Sri Lanka
... flights later we are snoozing under the mossie net in a greasy room at Negombo beach, about 7kms from the Colombo International Airport in Sri Lanka. We have to wait for Simon to turn up from London tomorrow. Colombo is an hour trip from the airport, and ...
“Today i’m a free bird”
... , convidado pelo irmão, viajou para a França, tendo permanecido nos arredores de Paris durante 15 anos. Aí conheceu a esposa, também do Sri Lanka, e acabou por voltar ao país de origem. Contrariamente ao que pensei, não é o gerente da guest house ...
The Cultural Show in Kandy
... key. I found out afterwards its all a big scam, there are lots of 'teachers' like that around the lake. I got to the Air Lanka office and changed my departure date from the 25th to the 27th of Feb. while I was down there I also changed my Singapore ...
Horton Plains, and the move to Kandy
Day 106 Wed 22nd Feb 2006 Horton Plains, and the move to Kandy. So the 5am wake up call was a bit late this morning, I got a knock on the door at 5.20am. That gave me 10 minutes to get ready, more than enough at that time in the morning! Namaal was ...
Sri Lanka: A Land like no Other. 10) Adam's Peak
... and Christians think it represents the footprint of Adam -- the site God placed him on earth after creation (implying that Sri Lanka was Eden). Adam's Peak is a popular site of pilgrimage among Buddhists and Hindus as it has ...
Feeling old today...
... The water is warm 24 hours a day so the first thing I did after checking in was take a shower. My first hot shower in Sri Lanka!!! With nothing else planned for the day, I made plans to make a little trek up Mount Pidurutalagala (Piduru) with Nimaal. I ...
Ca y est je suis au Srilanka...
Ai bu quelques mojitos hier soir, suis rentre vers 23h15 un peu chaud. Me suis leve a 5h ce matin, mon taxi est arrive vers 5h45 et suis arrive a l'aeroport a l'heure. Ai achete un lonely planet sur le Srilanka car je n'avais aucune idee de ce que ...
Cool in the hills
... headed off for a pleasant days climb. Nothing much more happened that day sorry . In Ella we were treated to some great Sri Lankan food by our guest house, we had to place our order at about 4 in the afternoon, and weren't disappointed when ...