Bentota Beach Club Galle

... moon – a Poya day. There is a Poya holiday every month – well sometimes more than one - but this one calls to mind the time when Buddha made a recommendation to a group of villagers to stitch their robes in the same pattern as that used to separate paddy beds in the fields; this festival is called Binara. On this day Buddhist monks take time for a retreat from the outside world and everybody else takes the day off.

This week ...

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If you are stay at royal plam hotel or near to that area, visit freedom jewellers and see the diference.
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Quite an interesting journey to Bentota. We stopped in Galle to see the fort, at Hidakkuwa to see the beach, at a natural moonstone mine to get talked into buying some jewellery and at a turtle hatchery. I think we avoided the rest of the tourist traps! In places the journey was a bit sad. We went through areas that had been badly hit by the tsunami. And the turtle hatchery even had stories of how ...

... unbearable and it felt like you were pounding already bruised hands together England got their first wicket of the day. Everyone went crazy and ran down to the front to look at the giant screen and see what had happened (I never noticed anything happen, the entire time I was there. These people must have highly trained eyes to watch and understand cricket with no TV help). Lots of singing and dancing ensued, which went on for about 2 minutes, then it erupted again, and England ...

... Will upload those photos as well! Final thing to report is our new housemate, the bandacoot rat. Seems to have taken up lodgings in Rob's room which fortunately happens to be in the other block from mine but we came back from an amateur production of Oliver the other night (you've got to admire Sri Lankans singing in English but other than that it reminded me of certain GTG pantos we endured year after year - you know who you are!! Painful) to find it sat on Rob's ...

Day 210 Tue 6th June 2006 I finally leave the Motherland and the RWT continues... I went to bed after 12.30am and was up at 4am - not much sleep had between then. I showered up anf threw that last few things into my backpack and we were ready to leave by 5am. Gagan still was not here so I went to Baba Mothi's and the Jatherey to Tekh Matha and by the time I got back he was here, so we left around 5.30am. My Thai was quite ...

another pilgramage! the sacred footprint of buddha for the buddist`s, for the muslims belive it is the footprint of adam after being cast down out of heaven and who stood on one leg in penitence until his sins were for given!! the Hindu`s believe it`s the footprint of Shiva ( a hindu god). the foot print is found at the top of the mountain with the temple. A staggering 2243m moutain ...

... journey over the Indian Ocean, the Arabian sea, the Atlantic Ocean and finally the great lakes of Canada to, hopefully, arrive back at home, safe and mostly intact, I hoped. Wajira had been the perfect host. Not letting me pay for anything, no matter how hard I pleaded with him to let me buy at least one meal and driving me around Colombo. It was time for my 3 hour flights to India for my next adventure. Leaving the whole of Sri Lanka, satisfyingly explored behind me, I flew off to Delhi.