Colombo Hostels - Reviews and Rates

A big sleep in til 830 today (a brief wake up to say goodbye to Denise & wish her happy travels down south).. I met Sandra for brekky at 9am and gave her a bag of things to take back to Melbourne for me -- its lightened my load by a couple of kilo's i think... am extremely grateful to her for doing me a huge favour! we said goodbye again and...

SRI LANKA: what I now know about the country I know a lot more about Sri Lanka after spending some time there. I discovered that Buddhism is the most popular religion here followed by Hinduism then Catholicism and Islam, and although these groups don't generally get along in many other countries, here they seemingly live quite harmoniously side...

I am sitting in the Business Class Lounge in the Sri Lankan Airport enjoying the fastest free internet connection I have seen since SE Asia! It's the 15th (soon to be midnight and then the 16th)...two days later than my originally booked flight...hence the blond moment. My head splitting sinus infection that I picked up in India clouded my readi...

Out of the pergatory of the new Bangkok airport, into the very comfortable home of my friend Sheila (we met in Peace Corps , gulp, 20 years ago!). She is working with USAID (agency for international development) on their tsunami programs here. They have set her up very nicely in a beautiful house which she graciously opened to me, she even plann...

Day 98 Tue 14th Feb 2006 My first day in Sri Lanka I crawled out of bed this morning at 11.30, it was really hot last-night and the ceiling-fan was too high up to be of any real benefit. I had heard someone moving around outside earlier in the morning but by the time I got up they had left. I went into the bathroom expecting to find the cockroac...

After a few quiet days at sea woke up to much activity at the wharf in Colombo - music , dancers & an elephant dressed up in fancy gear! Even on the other side of the ship, gunboats in the harbour were giving us their full attention. Hilton Hotel day use Lunch at Mount Lavinia Shopping & city tour Late night transfer to the airport for o...