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Arriving in Sri Lanka with a band of flying idiots
... the word Serendipity). It spent twenty five years in a nasty civil war between the Tamil minority and the Sinhalese majority population, a dispute that was recently resolved.
When I was here last in 1984 the country was in the beginning of their civil war. When I was there on the large yacht I had dropped anchor in the harbor of Colombo, where we had dinner with the US ambassador. He warned us that for our own safety we should not to leave the yacht, but over the ...
Hello Sri Lanka!
... security forces seemed to be issued.
We had a drink at the old Galle Face Hotel, watching the waves crash in. Then after dark we admired the Christmas lights and decorations adorning the hotel, and strolled the Galle Face Green with the locals out for an evening walk. We also visited a very eclectic Buddhist Temple, toured the National Museum, the Dutch Museum and got lost in the market streets of Pettah, where artificial Christmas trees ...
The smiling buddha...(no irony intented)
... letting go
of each other. I felt weird staring at them n I looked away… I
was smiling wildly as I couldn't hold it in any longer, though I didn’t
exactly know why I was smiling. I felt good seeing that. As I looked
around, everyone awake were smiling too. There were pilots, n all sorts
of people smiling to themselves. If I remember right I think the guy
next to me gave swift kiss to his ...
Indulging in Sri Lanka
... orphanage was flooded with hundreds of Sri Lankans wearing white (Sunday is a holy day) and a handful of tourists, but Ben and I ignored the crowds and admired the elephants. We watched them feed, got up and close with some of them for some photo ops, fed a bottle each to a younger elephant for a small fee, and then watched them bathe in the river. There was even a three-legged elephant (he lost his leg when he stepped on a landmine). Unfortunately I had made the uneducated ...
Final Stop in Sri Lanka
... collecting the car and driving home. Maybe a hotel in Mississauga will be the wise course.
Before moving on, I have to say that our hotel is growing on me each day. While our first lunch experience was a disaster, both breakfast buffets have been quite good. The staff have been universally fine. We have met and talked with all levels, from serving to middle management right up to the general manager. All seemed genuinely interested in ...



