Galway Miridiya Lodge Anuradhapura

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This could be special trip I think ... not least because travelling with my friend Gary McDarby will allow me to get much closer to people in the communities we visit than on any other trip ... How will it affect me? ... what lasting impression, if any, will I come home with from my trip? ...

My last trip to Africa had quite a profound affect on me ... it left me with a sense of despair about how we ...

... there I was told you could not take the bike and people were already starting to approach me to be a guide and be able to park the bike. To be honest, I just could not be bother with people hassling me today so I just decided to cycle away and go into the countryside.

It was absolutely brilliant, I really enjoyed it! I was able to catch glimpses of people everyday routine right in the middle of the countryside. People were very ...

... 30th.

Next I'll spend 3 weeks in New Zealand, mostly on the South Island, and fly from Auckland to LA on May 22nd.

After a final 3 weeks in America I will fly from New York to London on June 17th.

I have bought and scrounged everything I need to take, and I have typed up more notes than I can handle. I'm very excited to finally be so close to going, after years of planning and hoping!!

My next post will be from India!!!

... cliffs. If the height isn't awe-inspiring enough, the proximity in which you can approach the edge is. Walking along the edge has proven to be one of the most outrageous things I have done to this day. You litearlly walk along this cliff edge and look down only to see a complete vertical drop to the ocean. Most of it is fenced off, but there is a certain area that those who are willing enough can cross over and hike their way ...

... up was the castle, we only had a quick photo op and didnt get to really venture inside. I was kind of dissapointed by this because I really love castles and wanted to explore, but the show must go on, so we all climed back into the bus and set off the the Aillwee caves. This cave was formed by glacial melt waters from an early ice age period, but the river that created it has since dissapeared and left "Ireland's premier showcave". A man named Jack ...

... at 3.30am. By 5.45am I was grateful to be winging my way to Anuradhapura on a train!



Colombo to Anuradhapura



After arriving in Anuradhapura in a tired stupor, I took a rickshaw to a few places to stay, before settling on a nice hotel called Shalini. The staff were incredibly nice and I chatted to one while having a well deserved 2 pints of Lion beer. Then, despite it being daytime, I had to sleep and sleep and sleep! My evening meal ...

With Ella and Khun safely back to Thailand, the four of us jumped on a train to the North to cycle around the ancient ruined city of Anuradhapura. We didn't realise as we pedalled our bone-shaking ancient bikes out of the guest house that we were going to cover almost 25 miles that day! I looked like I'd nicked action mans bike.

8th October We knew it was going to be another long day of travelling today so we were up and ready to go by 6am. We were heading to Anuradhapura, another point on the "Cultural Triangle", and another town I was eager to see. As Polonnaruwa was a 1-street town we figured it'd be pretty easy to flag down a passing bus but it wasn't quite that straight forward. 2-3 buses flew passed at high speed and we had no idea if they were going where we wanted as the destination sign was in ...

... a.c.). Tal como outros templos que já tinhamos visitado, está construido em cima de um richedo e cavernas. Perto do templo há 3 grandes tanques que fazem parte do mesmo complexo, e que antigamente era usados para armazenar água (um para água potável, um para banhos, e outro para lavar). Visitamos também o templo Sri Maha Bodhi (templo da figueira sagrada), que com mais de 2000 anos é a mais antiga árvore sagrada do ...

... to relieve daily hangovers
-expensive weed
-party at the Penthouse with a bunch of bys
-Ashley Power/Geoff Pevlin
-Julie & Ashley
-Galway races
-"I've watched you lose audience after audience this entire trip" Bosh to Callahan
-late night feed place
-Superknack's
-Spanish Arches
-Smitty's dip with missus
-"Minge alert" -said to ...