Nisala Arana Bentota

... beautifully decorated with scenes from his life. Later on, we found ourselves in a jungley area at a mine where blue moonstones are excavated. A less 'enlightening' experience, we watched the miners – wearing only scraggy sarongs and working in very wet conditions, bringing buckets full of mud from the mine shaft 20m below and panning through it for moonstones. They did find some beautiful examples and we saw how they cut and polish them ...

... They are professional for jewellery design, manufacturing and quality gems. They are very friendly people. modern designs, best quality hand made jewellery with pure metals, genuine gemstones are there. we were very satisfied the jewellery what we bought and their service.
If you are stay at royal plam hotel or near to that area, visit freedom jewellers and see the diference.
thank you,

... had been affected.

Bentota itself was a nice beach, but mostly aimed at rich people! Tons of big expensive resorts. We sat in one of them to have a drink before heading back to our scummy cheapy. While we ate dinner we were accompanied by 2 whining cats. We tried feeding them a chilli, but that didn't go down well, so we ended up giving them our chicken bones just to keep them quiet!

... of our group. Suffice to say we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and I ended the night (as one of the few who could still speak) waking the manager of our resort holding a womans purse and some mans pants, to ask for the spare key as we had lost ours. The next day we were all a tad shaky, so myself, Marc and Tim headed into Galle for a look at the ground while Rob and Kerry decided for the gentler beach option. We arrived at the ground to find a soldier on the front entrance with a ...

... mistaken, but I'm sure Therese made it clear that as a little girl Marina was by far the cheekiest out of all her nieces! ;-) Late morning, Emmanuel's friend, fellow Lion, and travel agent, Carlo Corera, collected me via tuktuk (his car had broken down) and took me to his offices in the central Fort district. Numerous Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) - aka the 'Tamil Tigers' - suicide bombers have targeted the area ...

... for yet another spartan night of rest. Morning came and it was time to say a real choker of a goodbye. We had had a proper good time and become real mates. Thanks Cahmika for making my time in Sri Lanka fantastic and remember the plan ' MEET THE GEEZER ADVENTURE TUK TUK TOURS' !! Ill get the t shirts you get the stickers for the Tuk Tuk! I returned to the inefficency that is the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka and was of course ...

... minutes. That was nothing compared to what was about to follow. As perfect icing for an already disastrous ride, the kid(who seemed to have a bad case of the motion sickness), puked all over our baggage and the train and the both of us. Awesome! And ofcourse it wasnt like we could complain or whine too much given the circumstances.. but migod were we miserable!! Post Colombo, it was a scenic ride with the coast all ...

... night's spicy Roti? Bed bugs, nonono can't be that" My self diagnosis skills weren't getting any better and Wajira could tell. As I painted Calamine lotion all over my body, Wajira insisted on taking me to a doctor but with only 1 hour before I had to be at the airport, a pharmacist would do. Since I'd arrived in Sri Lanka I'd had an eye infection, a bad case of flaming bowel movements, atomic diareah, a slew of Lariam induced nightmares and this nasty rash. The constantly itchy ...