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Galle
Staying in the most lovely family guest house right in the middle of a UNESCO world heritage site (Galle Fort). An amazing cricket ground right outside the fort. would have loved to have seen a game. Drove down from Kandy on Independence day through the country and saw all the flags and banners of all the villagers celebrating. No trouble at all. …
Leopards-0 : Snakes-1
The final stop in our trilogy of Sri Lankan adventures was the south coast, famed for Yala National Park, fabulous beaches and the Galle, a fortress city which is now a World Heritage Site. Unfortunately the south coast also gained international attention from the damage it sustained by the 2004 boxing day tsunami, which killed 30,000 people along …
A thousand words
There have been far too many exceptional moments during this trip to pick a favorite in any category. The Singhalese people were happy and smiling, liked Americans, respected grandmothers and helped Carmen and I in any way they could. They were eager to share their remarkable country and heritage and proud of the variety that is within this one full-of-wonders island. A picture says a thousand words so I will attach several to this ...
Galle, a town of many sensations
... of the harbor in 1663. It looks like a medieval town with narrow passageways and streets, slowly decaying buildings, ramparts, and all the stuff a fort would have in-the-day are included in a cool dusty museum. There's a Dutch Reform Church, a mosque, a Hindu temple and a dagoba, a Buddhist place of worship and probably others we did not notice. The fort is prospering with lots of small hotels, a couple colonial hotels but, ...
Galle and Mirissa
... shouted to no avail. Such a comical scene filled me with joy. I hope that dude got home alright.
Mirissa is paradise. A long empty beach, almost no tourists, almost no development. Just a few guest houses. I'm not sure how long to stay here, but I could easily blow another day or two here, eating seafood and $1 curries and drinking coconuts. Yesterday day, while getting lost in some country lane, some Sri Lankan ran out of his house begging ...
Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Restaurant