Aditya Galle

... bon Dee et Holly sont deja au Nepal et m'ont dit que c'est canon. Ils vont faire le trek sans moi j'ai un peu trop mal aux tendons d'Achille a force de marcher en tongs. De plus mes chaussures ne sont pas adaptees pour un trek et je ne les ai pas mises en 6 semaines. Peut etre que j'en ferai un de 4-5 jours si ca va mieux...
Voila c'est trop dur la vie de routard, je donnerais n'importe quoi pour etre de retour au boulot..... Lol.
Bon courage a tous....................

Best time to travel to Sri Lanka is all over the year depending on your requirement. Example if you want to have some rest in sandy beaches in Westerna and Southern part of coastal belt you would have to come from October to April, if you want such in Eastern coastal belt you have to come in from May to September.

Galle, Sri Lanka sirilaka

... so there are certain things in place and ready for it yet there are certain areas where the culture doesn't seem to accept foreigners lifestyles (especially solo female travelers). While we didn't spend too much time in Tissa, it was nice to bike outside of town and watch the locals fishing or harvesting rice. When we first arrived we borrowed bikes and explored a little and got invited to watch some guys finishing up their days work with the rice. I love ...

... glasses of epsom salts (tasted like earwax) and an olive oil/grapefruit (quite nice) mixture before permanently rushing to the loo to empty our systems of stones. And there were hundreds of the little blighters! I think I managed to produce the largest which was approximately 1cm x 1cm and green (a bit like cryptonite), made primarily of cholesterol. Fascinating stuff. After two weeks of utter relaxation in paradise (apart from the gallstone flushing ...

... recommend Malabar House although they have put the prices up since we stayed there is truly is a once in a life time experience! Sri Lanka itself was stunning - we adopted a tuk tuk driver for the week to take us out and about! There is nothing quite like riding through the streets of Sri Lanka in a tuk tuk, you get the sense of the country more so rather than being in a car or a bus! The smells of fresh flowers or food cooking, people smiling at you ...

... asked for some beer money in return for the favour). The weather was really nice in Galle, so we spent the rest of the day visiting the fort and the old town, but we had no time for beaching as the next day was our last in Sri Lanka and we had to get back to Colombo. We took the train from Galle to Colombo, most of the railway is right at the coast so this is also a nice scenic trip, the sad side of it is that along the tracks there are still the remainings ...

The ride down here was a bit of a mission, 4.30 am wake up and 5am train ride to Colombo and straight through to Galle in the south. The train journey ride right along the beech and from you see the devastation left from the Tsunami....temporary housing (now permanent) and train still of the tracks and of course the beggar's on the train. At Galle I took a tuk tuk to the guest house recommended the crashed on the beech...hell yes ...

On October 8th, I was welcomed in my new home by Pati and Nilu - my new roommates. Oh yeah, and Coffee the gargantuan dog (that Nilu calls Copy cuz she can't pronounce her 'f's). He must be a black labrador-great dane cross. Shall we call him a greabrador? a labradane? Regardless, he's huge and isn't really trained. And he growls at me. We've had a few 'little talks' (I told him 'I live here now too, you have to be nice to me') to no avail... Pati is a ...

... Kerela and think its a good idea, so I was out there today doing the same. It makes all the difference and you know what they say, ' when in Rome...' I came back to the Lodge for around 2pm, Uma and Affan were getting ready to leave for Colombo, they had 6 guests coming to the Summer House and needed to get up there to sort stuff out for their arrival. I had spoke to Uma last night about going to Hikkaduwa for the day and they were going in that direction so Affan offered to ...

... a cup of tea this morning that it came from Lanka. On the side of the roads, people sold fresh fruit and vegetables. Some of them were so determined to sell their produce, they would climb up the hillside paths to meet the same car climbing along a longer road. The driver even said he'd seen one kid selling flowers four times already! Ayruveda Medicine On the drivers recommendation, I stopped off an Aryruveda medicine centre. This ancient form of medicine uses herbs ...