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Sri Lanka Slideshow
Top Hotels in Sri Lanka
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Berjaya Mount Royal Mount Lavinia
59 reviews -
Peacock Hotel Unawatuna
36 reviews
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Hotel Cranford Villa Bandarawela
5 reviews -
Galway Beach & Spa Beruwala
3 reviews -
Club Koggala Village(Ai) Kandy
14 reviews
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Mandara Rosen Yala National Park
71 reviews
Sri Lanka
Travel Blogs from Sri Lanka
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This is a top pick! ... for tomorrow's pot luck. Mark's making trifle without custard or cream (i.e. jelly and fruit), I'm making a pasta salad and Gordon's doing some vegetables Sri Lankan style - Masterchef beckons I think! O and we have 50 bits of paper to finish ...
A messy day
This is a top pick! ... there was Naomi and Hilary (who we know from pot luck dinner) and another couple from UK called Pam and Keith who frequently visit Sri Lanka as child counselors. It was an enjoyable evening, and is the Sri Lankan way, there was plenty of food!! ...
Tangalled Up in Blue
This is a top pick! ... damage is said to pale in comparison to that of the east, is horribly affected nonetheless. It is apparent that Sri Lanka needs major assistance. And the country is receiving assistance. Refugee camps are set up throughout the region; international ...
Hikkaduwa....Another stunning Sri Lankan Beach!
This is a top pick! ... Hikkaduwa diddnt have a great write up in our crappy guidebook!! But it sounded appealing - known as "the" backpacker ghetto of Sri Lanka, the original hippy hangout of the country set on the coast with a beach and budget guesthouses. Its beautiful, a ...
Paradise in Panama
This is a top pick! ... completely oblivious to what was happening around them. Alternately, they might photograph the varied flowers of the area, including Sri Lanka’s national flower - the pale blue lotus or Nymphaea nouchal. It was later that afternoon during our drive ...
The Other Side of Jaffna
This is a top pick! ... after house along the roadside had been bombed, and most were still in a state of disrepair three years after war had ended. Sri Lankan army camps and check-posts were located at regular intervals all along the way, although they did not appear to be ...
Final Destination
This is a top pick! So my last stop and bit of a let down. A beech you cant swim in and now where the feel of the south beeches. So when the weather continued to act up I decided it was time to leave. The others had all flown home and it was my time to. I managed to ...
RIP Pentax
This is a top pick! ... locals is that the site was empty of tourists. mostly due to the civil war problems not far away in the north of lanka. So 3 hours later, I jumped on another local bus to Sigiriya. There I met Madu, English living, Lankan and the brilliant flower inn ...
Still in Unawatuna
This is a top pick! ... tommorow to do some bits and pieces. By the way, there is nowhere here to upload piccies....as soon as we can, we will upload pics on all of the Sri Lankan places we have visited. Hugs Ali and Matt xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ...
Monsters in the Lake!!!
This is a top pick! ... ...only to be confronted with a monster...well sort of!!! I didn't think you could get these things outside Indonesia, but in Lanka there have big f##k off monitor lizards. I thought I had come across a croc at first...these things are huge...like ...
Kandy in the heart of Sri Lanka
This is a top pick! ... train station we purchased our tickets to Kandy, we had decided the night before that if we went straight to the beach here in Sri Lanka, that was pure laziness..!! As we just spent over a week doing nothing in Palolem, so we talked about it and decided ...
A Blond Moment in Sri Lanka
This is a top pick! ... , painted c(aves and ended our day in Sigiria at his friend, Raja's, guest house hotel, Globetrotter (Sigiriya Road, Rotawewa, Inamaluwa, Sri Lanka Tel: 078-8754350 Mobile: 0777-801818, email: rajaguna8@sitnet.lk) . Raja and his lovely wife and ...
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 ...
More British Than Britain!!
This is a top pick! ... but it started raining so holed up in the hotel instead to plan the rest of the trip. We were knackered and had 5 days left in Sri Lanka, all of that was to be spent on the beach! We enquired at the hotel about how to get there and found out there was ...
Sri Lanka
This is a top pick! Arrived in Sri Lanka on Friday morning. It is everything we expected and more. Have been here 1 and a half days and now flying to the Maldives tonight Sat23rd for a week this is no reflection on S L its just rude not to go when it is just an hours flight ...
Rebel Country
This is a top pick! ... he reached for a pen "call Mr. Siva, he will help you." Mr. Siva worked for the ICRC, an International body in Sri Lanka responsible for ensuring that both sides of the conflict conducted their warfare in accordance to the Geneva convention. He was in ...
Luc meets Buddha
This is a top pick! ... word of eternal mindfulness. In his karmic wake he left behind millions of devoted Buddhists. Buddhism is the main religion in Sri Lanka. Meditation retreats, peaceful monastaries and Buddhist rest houses dot the Island and having a few days to spare, I ...
Knuckles Range
This is a top pick! ... the home-cooked meals are delicious, the rates are great, and the few rooms that do exist are clean and quiet. We will return to Sri Lanka in the future, if for no other reason than to stay at the Green View again. We awoke early the first morning; I ...
Where is everyone???
This is a top pick! 10th October With only 2 weeks in Sri Lanka we needed to keep moving quickly in order to see as much as possible. 2 days in Anuradhapura had been enough and we needed to move on. Our next port of call was the final point of the cultural triangle, ...
Anuradhapura
This is a top pick! ... a modern town again so that we could get a few things in order. Sun cream was obviously first on the list but finding a UK-Sri Lanka charger was getting quite desperate as well as the camera batteries were running dry! Didn't take too long to find and I ...
Where Have all the Children Gone
This is a top pick! ... with huge numbers of displaced children. Feeling that the situation was out of control, the government specifically requested that SOS Sri Lanka assist in finding homes for 280 of these children in Chettikulum – about 200 kms south of Jaffna. ...
Plantations.
This is a top pick! ... , and afterward, now while though tired, I have some time to describe some of the many experiences that has been the whirlwind of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is a bit more expensive than India, but not a heck of a lot. I did stay in Kandy one more night to see ...
Unawatuna: In search of some peace and paradise
This is a top pick! ... ran out after 3 days and this did not give us enough time to adapt our trip and experience the ancient and cultural side to Sri Lanka. This really would have made our trip more complete. Next exciting part of our journey is back into India and ...
Watewanderawa
This is a top pick! ... What better way to define our quest to reconnect with seven women in the Mahaweli. The Mahaweli is a large area in central Sri Lanka that was converted from scrub jungle to arable land through the construction of five major dams and a series of ...
The Quiet Beauty of Jaffna
This is a top pick! Try to visualise a small windswept island dotted with palmyra palms, where every household is surrounded by an attractive coral rock fence, where vehicles barely exist, and where wild ponies run freely. It is like taking a step back in time as one ...
Twenty three years later
This is a top pick! ... - well, I still think it has been considerably diminished, but is by no means eliminated. Gerry and I came to Sri Lanka in 1988 as CIDA co-operants, mandated to establish a regional training centre specializing in agriculture and community development - ...
Surprised
This is a top pick! ... needed to be and deciced to walk it. Polonnaruwa was nothing like I had expected. As base for one of the premier sights in Sri Lanka, and a UNESCO World Heritage site, I was expecting a large touristic setup. In reality it was a dusty one street town and ...
Where God dropped off Adam!
This is a top pick! Adam's Peak, Delhouise, Sri Lanka - The majority of pictures in this blog were taken by Sonja Hampel. The ride from Kandy to Delhousie went via the town of Hatton which is on the train track. Instead of grabbing the direct bus to Delhousie, Sonja was ...
Oh how I irritate people!! Plus, sleepy Leopard!
This is a top pick! ... with some dips to throw in them and you happily eat with your fingers. Oh yes, I forgot to mention earlier, that in Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, people eat with their right hand!! This has taken some getting used to! Your left hand is used at different ...
